Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-17
Il RAISES THE DEAD.
Remarkable Mechanism Invented
by a Virginia Man.

by a Virginia Man.
RESUSclTATES THE DROWNED
Professor Poe's "Respiratorr sobers
Drunken Men-WiiI Revive Persons
Hanged, Eleotrooutsd or Asphyx-
lated by 6as-it Neutralixes Poison.
Almost sightless and semiparalyzed,
Professor George Pee. living the life
OF reclnse, on backwoods farm In
Norfolk county, Va. claims to have
solved the problem OF raising the dead
BY means Of his ''respiratcr,. as he
calls the machine which he has invent
Cd for the purpose. Tests Of 1t have
already been made In the presence of
Norfolk and Portsmouth city physi-
eians, asphyxiated or snothered dogs
and rabbits being the subjects, says
he New York World. In each case
the animal, after being pronounced
dead By the physicians, was brought
back to life BY Professor Poe's device
and seon aftsrward was frolicking
around In the full Joy Of life.
The inventor claims that the machine
win resuscitate persons killed by as
phyxtation, poison or drowning; pre-
vent death by an anaesthetic while q
patient is being operated upon, pre-
vent infant asphyda" at birth. make
drunken men sober In q few minutes,
revive men electrocuted or hanged, the
latter only in cases where the neck
has not been broken, and prevent
freezing to death even In the arctic.
The professors model Is simply that
of the human heart The problem in
the case Of persons drowned, suffo-
Gated or dead through anaesthetics
was TO remove the fluid or the poison
Gus gases from the stomach or lungs
and at the same time pump life giving
oxygen IN. So Professor Poe began ex-
pertments on what he calls double
larynx tubes and two tubes to connect
the nostrils, one for inlet and the other
for outlet Studying the action Of the
heart, he saw that 1t was that Of a
double cylinder, or, rather, two cylin-
ders, right and left ventricIes and
right and left auricles With the as
sistance Of young Ostrander he built a
working model In line with the con-
struction of the heart a simple ma
chine with two cylinders, each having
an inlet and an outlet valve The
plungers Of each cylinder are made to
work simultaneously.
The machine will In a very few min
@utss sober up drunken man who has
fallen into stupor.
Thomas Black, retired business
man OF Norfolk, ON being shown the
plans obtained permission ITO exhibit
them to DR.. Francis NJ. Morgan, ply
stefan Of Norfolk. DIR. Morgan imme.
diately saw that It promised to be an
immense boon to humanity, and he In
duced the professor to demonstrate it
before q committee of Norfolk county
and Norfolk city doctors. They Wit
Messed the smothering Of rabbits and
dogs to the point Of what they de-
clared on their professional honor was
absolute death and then saw them re-
suscitated 5
DR.. Morgan recently described a
demonstration given In his Office BY
Professor Poe and his machine In the
presence of himself and DR.. ]. p. Jack
SON and DR.. N q. Wilson. On the
operating table was the little brass ma
chime composed OF two small cylin-
ders about q foot high and six inches
In circumference, with pump handle.
Pipes led from tank Of oxygen to the
machine, and from 1t tubes fitted with
nOgtriI pieces were to be fastened to
Q rabbit The rabbit was put on the
table and one Of the doctors Injected
two grains Of morphine into It's leg.
after which four ounces OF ether was
given OF course the rabbit was dead
after this, and the doctors applied
every known test to discover signs OF
life. No life was there, ana the doc
tors agreed that life was positively ex-
tinct
Then Professor Poe applied the tubes
to the rabbits nostrils, and, pumping
out the poisons with one cylinder and
pumping oxygen into the lungs with Il
simultaneous movement Of the valves,
within three minutes the rabbit, but
lately dead. was breathing naturally.
and within SIX minutes it was running
around the room. It showed no sign
of nausea, proving that the ether was
entirely ont OF the system.
Next dog was placed In q box con.
tanning heavily charged atmosphere
Of acatylene gas, one Of the most
poisonous gases known, and smothersd
thArs Tor forty minutes. The dog was
taken out and doctors examined him
ana pronounced him dead psyond hope