Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-30
RAISE THE DEAD.
Machine That Restores Life When
the Vital Spark
SEEMS ALMOST GONE.

The Most Remarkable Invention E;,Is
Inert Lungs With Oxygen and Tim.
Ncutralizes All Poisons-A Rabb,t
ana Dog Pronounced Dead Lean
from the Table After Use of the
Respirator on Them.
1t was announced some time apo
mat Professor George Poe. of Nor
tolk, Va, had invented an "artiscio,
'esplrator machine" that would raise
the dead. There has Just been com
pieted at Norfolk by Professor Poo
ana several inquiring scientists SER
les OF amazing successful experiment
with the little contrivance which mo-
chanically puts oxygen. the breath n,
life, into inert lungs.
nose who Witnessed the tests ara
nrmIy convinced that thousands NJ
lives may be saved by the brass
heart' which is what Poe's machine
practically is 1t will be especially
variable in cases of suspended anima-
tion caused by drowning. by gas as
phyNiation in mines. and by coma
resultant upon typhoid fever and 9th
er diseases
professor Poe, by letting the con-
trlVance force upon him inhalation
hd eXhalation of oxygen, was enabled
10 stop breathing for ten minutes
Animals. declared dead beyond al,
doubt by the visiting physicians were
revived in few minutes and were
aoIe TO scamper out of the operating
room.
Practically. though not literally
OF course, the artificial respiration
machine brought the dead to life and
the experts say il will work equally
well on human beings.
Professor Poe's machine is built az
near as possible along the lines OF
the human heart. 1t is about eigh-
teen inches in height. with two CYL
nders--correspondn to the ventri-
cles and auricles OF the heart-and
inlet and outlet valves. Doubls
tubes enter the larynx and nostrils
of the patient.
Roughly, the contrivance resem-
pies bicycle pump. While one set
OF tubes draws off the poisonous
huids and gases from the lungs, the
other set forces in the life giving
oxygen.
The first experiment was upon
Socrates" pet rabbit on the Poe
farm. 1t was given two grains OF
morphine, enought to kill man.
Then Immediately four ounces Of
ether were administered. The physi-
clans pronounced the rabbit dead, af.
ter all ordinary restorativca failed.
The machine was then applied and
within three minutes the effects OF
the poison and anesthetic were irawn
off, and Socrates iumpel from the
table and hoped away. A large deg
was then killed and brought hack to
life again within five minutes.
The doctors present realized then
that many of the evil and after effects
of anesthesia could be done away with
by the machine. And there dawned
upon them another side of lis value.
which had rather humorous aspect.
IntoXication, it was found, could be
cured in a few minutes
This experiment was actually made.
The machine was applied to hilar-
iously drunken man, drew off the
poisonous alcoholic fumes and he
Strengthened out in three minutes
Since then. it has been said, Professor
Poe has been approached with a prop
osition to manufacture pocket re-
! spirators for this purpose.
Infant asphysia, that dread accom-
paniment of birth. which stiles many
a life before it has fairly started to
exist, may also he wiped out by the
respirator. DR.. j. +. Jackson and
Professor Poe. with a miniature ma
chine, saved the life of baby at
Berkeley last week. The machine did
the breathing for the child until it
was able to strike out for itself.
Throughout the Virginia country
folks regard Professor Poe as mod
ern miracle-worker. Despite his per-
sistent declarations that his invention
is merely an aid to- lfe after 1t has
fled. the country people call him the
raiser Of the dead"
Many persons have written to Poe
asking him to try and restore life
to relatives who have been dead for
weeks, months and even ye ars. He
is engaged now in manufacturing sew
eral respirators which will be tested
in the leading hospitals of the coun'