Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-14
II RAISES THE DEAD.
Remarkable Mechanism Invented
by a Virginia Man.
RESI- scITATEs THE DROWNED

RESI- clTATEs THE DROWNED
Professor Poe's Respirator' sobers;
q Drunken Men-Nill Revive Persons
Hanged, Eieotrooutsd Or Asphyx-
4 lated BY Gas- II N sntrallxes Poison.
Almost sightless and semiparalyzed,
Professor George Poe, living the life
OF q recluse on a backwoods farm ID
Norfolk county, va, claims to have
solved the problem OF raising the dead
~ means OF his resptrator,,, as he
calls the machine which he has invent
ed for the purpose. Tests Of 1t have
already been made In: the presence Of
Norfolk and Portsmouth city physi-
clans, asphyxieted or m0thered dogs
and rabbits being the subjects says
the New York World. II each case
the animal, after being pronounced
dead by the physicians, was brought
back to life by Professor Poe's device
and soon afterward was fr0licking
around In the full joy Of life.
Il The inventor claims that the machine
will resuscitate persons killed BY as
phyxiation, poison or drowning; pre-
vent death by an anaesthetic while =
patient Is being operated upon, pre-
vent sinfant asphyxia'' at birth, make
drunken men sober In 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 ok
periments 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 4
double cylinder, or, rather, two cylin-
ders, right and left ventricles and
right and left auricles. With the as
sistance Of young Osfrander he built i
working model Ia line with the con
struction OF the heart simple ma
chine with two cylinders, each having
an inlet and an outlet valve. Tho
plungerss of each cylinder are made to
work simultane ously.
The machine will In very few min
utes sober up a drunken man who has
fallen into stupor.
Thomas Black, a retired business
man of Norfolk. on being shown the
plans obtained permission to exhibit
them to DIR. Francis NJ. Morgan, ply
stefan Of Norfolk. DR.. Morgan imms-
diately saw that 1t promised to be an
immense boon to humanity, and he In
duced the professor to demonstrate Il
before committee Of Norfolk county
and Norfolk city doctors. They wit
messed the snnothering Of bbits and
dogs to the point Of what they de-
clared on their professional honor was
absolute death and then saw them re-
suscitated.
DE-. Morgan recently described q
demonstration given IN his Office BY
Professor Poe and his machine In the
presence Of himself and DIR. j. p. Jack
son and Dr.. N. g. Wilson. On the
operating table was the little brass ma
chine, composed Of two small cylin-
ders about a foot high and six inches
In circumference, with a pump handle.
Pipes led from a tank Of oxygen to the
machine, and from 1t tubes fitted with
n0stril pieces were to be fastened to
rabbit. The rabbit was put on the
table and one Of the doctors injected
two grains Of morphine into its leg,
after which four ounces Of ether was
given. or 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 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 d
/ simultaneous movement Of the valves,
within three minutes sthe rabbit, but
lately dead, was breathing naturally.
| 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. dog was placed In a box con
tanning a heavily charged atmosphere
Of acetylene gas, one of the most
poisonous gases known, and smothered
there for forty minutes The dog was
4 taken out, and doctors examined him
and pronounced him dead beyond hope
Of resuscitation. But the little ma.
chine got In It's work. and the dog, after
four Or five artificial respirations. be.
/ gan breathing naturally, and soon his
i pulse was beating normally.
I IA practical working machine, says
DR.. Morgan. is now being constructed
In Baltimore and win be exhibited al