The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-13
RAISE The DEAD.
Prof. Poe Has Wonderful Machine
Which Will Do It
PUMPS IN new LIFE.

PUMPS IN new LIFE.
Medical Men and Other Profession
al Men Are Greatly interested in
the Model Of the New Machine
For Which the Inventor Claim:
Great Things, and Upon Which
He Has Experimental.
Almost sightless and semi-paralyz
ed, Prof. George Poe, living the llft
of 8 recluse on a backwoods farm II
Norfolk county, Va, claims to have
solved the problem Of raising tht
dead by means of his "respirator,
as he calls the machine which he ha!
invented for the purpose. Tests o:
it have already been made in tht
presence of Norfolk and Portsmouth
city physicians, asphyxiated o.
srnothered dogs and rabbits being
the subjects. In each case the AMI
NAL, after being pronounced dead by
the physicians, was brought back 60
life by Prof. Poe's device, ana soon
sfterward was frolicking around IN
the full JOY Of living.
4 ten-vear-old boy, Arthur Ostran-
der son of the man with whonn Prot.
Poe lives. acted as his eyes and hands
IN the construction Of the machine,
which ;njects the air Of life into the
lungs as it pumps out the deadly gas
es. The inventor claims that the ma
chine will resuscitate persons killed
by asphyxiation, poison or drown
ing; prevent death by an anesthetlc
while q patient is being operated
upon; prevent infant asphyxla' at
birth; make drunken men sober IN a
few minutes; revive men electrocut-
ed or hanged, the latter only in cases
where the neck has been broken; pre-
vent 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 Illuminating the centennial Of
1879, an employe brought in trap
containing a huge rat. After the ro-
dent had been killed the professor
said: "Stand 'asike, boys, and III
bring it back to life" He pumped
oxygen into its lungs until he actual
ydid revive it, so that itleaped from
the table and escaped in q hole.
This encouraged Prof. Poe, and he
redoubled his efforts to ascertain the
exact moment when life ends. His
interest in it was stimulated by the
fact that a young sister who had
been pronounced dead from typhoid
fever and placed in her coffin had re-
vived within two hours Of the time
set for burial and lived to be the
mother Of family.
Several years ago Prof. Poe, strlck-
en- with paralysis, was advised by hls
physicians to live in the country. He
went to Norfolk county, and it was
while il seclusion on the farm Of his
friend. A. C. Ostrander, that he
evolved his artificial respiration ap-
paratus. The boy, Arthur, Of whom
the professor was fond, assisted in
assembling the model and in doing
what the professors dim eyes and
palsied hands could not alone accom-
plish.
The professors model is simply
that of the human heart. The prob
lem in the case Of persons drowned,
srffocated or dead through anesthe-
tics was to remove the fluid or the
poisonous gases from the stomach or
lungs, and at the same time pump
life-giving oxygen in. So Prof. Poe
began experiments on what he calls
double larynx tubes ard TWO tubes
to connect the nostrils- % = for inlet.
Suudving the action Of TIE heart, ne
saw that it was that Of double cy-
Under, or, rather, two cylinders;
right and left ventricals and right
and left auricles. With the assistance
of young Ostrander he built work
ing model in line with the construc-
ton of the heart, a simple machine
with two clyders, each having an IN
let and an outlet valve. The plung-
ers of each cylinder are made to work
simultaneously.
The machine will in a very few
minutes sober up drunken man who
has fallen into a stupor. 1t is the
slow respiration caused by liquor
that makes a man 'drunk." By the
help Of the respirator the respiration
would be ouickened, and, the poison
thus carried out Of his system, mind
and body once more 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, a
physician of Norfolk Dr. Morgan
Immediately saw that it promised to
be an immense boon to humanity,
and he induced the professor to de-
monstrate it before a committee Of
Norfolk county and Norfolk city doc
tors. They witnessed the smothering
of rabbits and dogs to the point of
what they declared on their profes-
sional honor was absolute dealh, and
then saw them resusoiated.
DR.. Morgan Wednesday described
q demonstration given in his office by
Prof. Poe and MS machine in the
presence of himself and DR.. J. P.
Jackson and DR.. N. G. Wilson. On
the operating table was the little
brass machine, composed of two
small cylinders about a foot high and
six inches in circumference, with a
pump-handle. Pipes led from tank
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