East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-10
LIFE
AFTER DEATH
PARIS SCIENTIST HAS
REVIVED DEAD ANIMALS
Electrical Sleep Results In Death,
Which Is Overcome by Artificial
Means-The Sleep Is Latest Meth
oil Replacing ChOlorOform IN oper-
atOns-Emlnent Doctor VIII Try
Laboratory Experiments on Hu-
mans.

DR.. Louise G.. Rabinovltch, wei
known in New York, and DR.. V. Mag
nan are preparing another step n
their series Of discoveries In electric
sleep, says a Paris dispatch. Expert
ments have been conducted on rab
bits and dogs and will be made soor
on human beings and patients In the
insane hospital at Saint Anne In Par
is. DR.. Rabinovtch has been con.
Quoting her experiments in hopes Of
finding means Of doing away en-
tirely with the usual anaesthetics, eth
er and chloroform, and so far has been
successful.
The city Of Paris early in the sum-
mer fitted a laboratory for the hos
pltal Of Saint Anne and there she has
put a. patient to sleep by electricity
without performing an operation. She
also in several cases has used elec-
tricity as a local anaesthetic on part
Of an arm or leg and performed a
slight operation. Her intention now,
in which she Is encouraged by the
veteran DR.. Magnan, is to perform a
serious operation on a man under the
influence of electric sleep. This will
be the first time this has been done
anywhere in the world.
Tells of Her Experiments.
DR.. Rabinovitch has made some re-
markable discoveries while working in
her laboratory and finds no difficulty
in instilling life in animals which have
died on the operating table. The i'm
mense value Of this discovery TO ply
sicians when their patients die as a
result of an anesthetic can be seen
at once. one dog playing about the
laboratory, the doctor said, had been
dead three times.
while under the influence of cleo
trio sleep / killed her instantly" she
said. with chloroform. The heart
stopped beating and respiration ceas-
ed II the anial had been left alone
then 1t would have remained dead
but | Immediately instituted artificial
respiration by means of electricity
| a perfectly straight line reached
breathe of its own accord. Again after
had killed the dog and resuscitated
II hemorrhage set in caused by the
operation and the dog bled to death
| brought il back to life again"
The animal present was perfectly
healthy. While it was in the labora-
tory the doctor put the rabbit under
the influence OF the electric sleep in
comparatively short time. When
the rabbit came out from under the
influence it hoped away contentedly.
for in all her experiments on animals
the doctor has kept records which
show the tracings of the animals res
piration and the heart action through
ont the experience. At a point where
a perfectly stroight line reached
the tracings the animal was dead. A
little further on regular curved lines
show artificial respiration and still
further irregular lines show the ami
NAL commenced to breathe again.
The doctor is confident all her ex-
periments can be put into practice on
human btlllSNs W H'll an animal ull-
der the influence Of the current reacts
to no stimulus and when the current
is turned off the awakening is instan-
taneous. and there is no after sick
ness nor stupor.
DR.. BRANDS statement that insanity |
never is caused by love stirred up
several other prominent physicians in
Paris to discuss the question. DR..
Vallon, one of the famous alienists
of st, Anne hospital, Paris, says love
often has caused madness.
81 don't wish to dispease BRAND,
with whom I've worked for some
years, but his aphorism that love new
er leads to madness appears to me ex-
aggerated There are some people
many in fact-and | could cite nu-
merous examples, who. following the
death of person loved, plunged into
dependency, loss of appetite and
sleep, and soon became mad. This is
The history of all violent passions and
owe is violent passion par excel
ence.
"Dr, BRAND spoke of predisposition.
rhe same causes in different individ-
lals naturally do not produce the
same effects, but this is true not only
n mental sickness, but in all other
sickness. one could suppose DR.. Bril-
md never loved and was incapable
If violent passion. 1t is true YOU
'ould invert the argument and induce
lim to be capable of becoming mad
,y way of love"