Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-04
PUMPS IN AEW1HE
Prot. Poe Has Wonderful Ma
chine to Raise Dead.
MANY HAVE SEEN THE TESTS
Some Remarkable Results Are Said
to Have Been Accomplished.
RAT AND A RABBIT RESTORED
Medical Men and Others Greatly In
terested in the Model of the
New Machine.

teSS anu SeLHi-paralyZeQ, Pr0f. George Pee,
living the life of a recluse on a backwoods
1arm In Norfolk county. claims to have
solved the problem of raising the dead by
means of his "respirator,' as he calls the
machine which he has invented for the pur-
| pose. Tests of it have already been made
IN the presence of Norfolk and Ports
mouth city physicians, asphyxiated or
smothered dogs and rabbits being the sub
jects. In each case the animal. after being
pronounced dead by the physicians, was
brought back to life by Prof Poes device,
| and soon afterward was frolicking around
in the full joy of living
A ten-year-old boy. Arthur Ostrander,
son of the man with whom Prof. Poe lives.
acted as his eyes and hands in the con-
struction Of the machine which injects the
AR OF life into the lungs as it pumps out
the deadly gases.
The Inventor claims that the machine will
resuscitate persons killed by asphyxiat,on.
poison or drowning: prevent death bv an
ahesthetic while a patient is being oper-
ated upon; prevent Infant asphyxia'' at
oirth; make drunken men sober in few
minutes; revive men electrocuted or hanged
the latter only in cases where the neck has
not been broken; prevent freezing to death
even in the Arctic.
Prof: Poe ,, had long been studying the
problem, when does life really leave the
body?" One day, while he was illuminat-
ing the centennial of 1876, an employee
brought in a trap containing a huge rat
After the rodent had been killed the pro-
lessor said: Stand aside, bows and I'll
bring 1t back to life" He pumped oxygen
into its lungs until he actually did revive
1t, SO that it leaped from the table and
escaped in a hole.
Revived Young Sister.
This encouraged Prof. Poe, and he re-
ooupied his efforts to ascertain the exact
moment when life ends. His interest in 1t
was stimulated by the fact that a Young
sister who had been pronounced dead from
typhoid fever and placed in her coffin had
revived within two hours of the time set
for burial and lived to be the mother Of
a family. ,
Several years ago Prof Poe, stricken
with paralysis, was advised by his physi-
clans to live in the country He went to
norfolk county, and it was while in seclu-
sion on the farm Of his friend, A, c. Os-
trander, that he evolved his artificial respi-
ration apparatus. The boy Arthur, of whom
the professor was fond, assisted in assemb-
ling the model and in doing what the nro-
fessor's dim eyes and palsied hands conId
not alone accomplish. .--.s
The professors model is simply that of
the human heart. The problem in the case
of persons drowned, suffocated or dead
through anesthetics was to remove the
fluid or the poisonous gases from the stom-
ach or lungs, and at the same time pump
nIe-giving oxygen In. So Prof. Poe began
experiments on what he calls double
larynx tubes and two tubes to connect the
nostrils-one for inlet and the other for out
let Studying the action of the heart, he
saw that 1t was that of double cylinder
or. rather, two cylinders; right and left
ventricals and right and left auricles With
the assistance of young Ostrander he built
a working model in line with the construc-
two cylinders each having an inlet and an
outlet valve. The plungers of each cylinder
are made to work simultaneously.
Restores Drunken Man. $50
The machine will in very few minutes
sober up a drunken man who has fallen
into stupor. 1t Is the slow respiration
caused by liquor that makes man
drunk BY the help of the respirator the
respiration would be quickened and, the
poison thus carried out Of his system mind
and body once more would resume their
normal state
Thomas Black, a retired business man of
Norfolk, on being shown the plans obtained
permission to exhibit them to DR.. Francis
NJ. Morgan, physician of Norfolk. Dr.
Morgan Immediately saw that 1t promised
to be an immense boon to humanity, and
he induced the professor to demonstrate it
before committee of Norfolk county and
Norfolk city doctors. They witnessed the
smothering of rabbits and dogs to the point
Of what they declared on their professional
honor was absolute death, and then saw
them resuScitated.
DR.. Morgan yesterday described a demon
stration given in his office by Prof Poe and
his machine in the presence of himself and
Dr. ]. P. Jackson and DR.. N. G. Wilson.
On the operating table was the little brass
machine, composed of two small cylinders
about foot high and six inches in circum-
ference, with a pump-handle. Pipes led
from tank of oxygen to the machine, and
from it tubes fitted with nostril pieces were
to be fastened to a rabbit.
Rabbit Breathed Naturally.
The rabbit was put on the table and one
of the doctors injected two grains of NOR
phine into its 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 and the doctors agreed
that life was positively extinct.
Then Prof. Poe applied the tubes to the
rabbits nostrils and. pumping out the pois
ons with one cylinder and pumping oxygen
into the lungs with a simultaneous move
ment Of the valves, within three minutes the
rabbit, but lately dead, was breathing natu-
rally and within six minutes it was running
around the room. 1t showed no sign of
nausea, proving that the ether was entirely
out of the system.
Next a dog was placed in a box contain
ing a heavily charged atmosphere of acety-
lene gas, one of the most poisonous gases
known, and smothered there for forty min
utes. The dog was then taken out and
doctors examined him and pronounced him
dead beyond hope of resuscitation. But the
little machine got in its work, and the dog,
after four or five artificial respirations, be-
gan breathing naturally, and soon his pulse
was beating normally.
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