The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-08-20
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4 !. HOSPITAL;
:. =: fECCVEBs
Is Restored TO Life by Physical,
With StrychRia and Artificial
- Respiration. .s.... 81.
EVERY SIGNsOF DEATH
WAS PRESENT FOR A TIME
Trained NufseS Annnune Ell Demise of
the Patient-Wifc Had EngAg-
ed an Undertaken.


New York. Aug. 19.-Oscar Cul-
yer was dead Ter three minutes in
the eastern district hospital Brook
lyn yesterday, Then by means OF
powerful heart stilnulant and ar
ffhcial respiration to get his lungs in
to play again, the doctors brought
him back to life. His heart was
beating. he Was breathing this morn
ing, but his bold on life was most
precarious, His wife, who had en-
gagged an undertaken, informed him
later that his services would not be
nceded-yct:
Culver is Twenty-Five years old;
his home is at No. 2C2 South Fourth
street Williamsburg. He has been
In bad health a long time but, up to
1oar weeks ago, worked in. the roll
ing. mill Of the iron works at Kent
avenue and South Sixth street, own
ed by Frederick w. Wurster, a form
er mayor OF Brooklyn, His physi-
cion found that Culver had copsump-
ton Of the lungs complicated by rheu
matism and. a fortnight ago, had
been removed to the hospital.
Nurse Announces His Death.
Oscar Culver is dead" announc-
ed Miss Josephine Ryan. n =: trained
nursc, who had been nursing Culver
as she entered the Office of DR.. Louis
Wilgand, superintendent OF the hos
pital, yesterday. 1t can be said,
without rejecting on Misy Ryan's
ability as nurse, that she is famiI-
lar with the signs OF death and that,
when she ktc.slixer1 as dead, 3sha
was certain OF At. - =. d. ....--'. D..
Have the body taken to the dead
house in the basement" roared DF:
Weigand., Notify his widow inn
mediately, and fell her to bring an
undertaken"
1t happened luckily for Culver that
Dr. Michael Jaffer, OF the visiting
stan, WAS in DR.. Weigand's Office. DIR.
Jaffer, of course, believed Culver
WAS dead, but ne said:
Il want to see that body It's
an opportunity for me to try an ex-
pertinent I've been making"
He :-..~l.-
Hurried to the Ward ,
where Culver lay, made some of the
tests for death. Tne pupils of Gull
yer's eye did not respond to irrita-
ton; he was pulseless at his wrist;
his heart was not beating; he had
ceased to breathe ito all appearance
he was dead ASIA rnan can be. Still,
hurriedly, DR.. Jaffer infected under
the skin and over the heart Of the
seeming corpse one tenth of grain
oG s>rychnin, which, given hyperder-
mically is a mighty big dose Of the
most powerful musc1e-stimulant; it
would throw many healthy child
into tetaric convictions. Instantly,
too, DR.. Jaffer performed artificial
respiration; trying to initiate and
empty Culver's lungs systematica
as in natural breathing.
Seeming Corpse Signs.
Three minutes had passed since
Miss Ryan thought Culver died when
he sighed ever SO family. All the
doctors in the hospital instantly
heard the astounding news and hur-
RED to his cot; they relieved each
other in keeping mp artificial respirT
a.ion. Pretty soon DR.. Jafer, liz
Itening intentiy, heard Culyer's heart
FILTER; then, feeling his radfal ar
terry, the doctor detected a slow,
weak pulse. Pretty soon Culver
bceathcd legs weakly and, his heart
beat more regularly Thief he open
ed his eyes and started flxedly into
lie world from which by all the
signs known to medical men, he had
made his exit. - s..-.
Mrs. Culver soon arrived with the
undertaken, who aWiably c0ngratu-
lated her On the fact that she was
not widow. = H