Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-31
FINDS A WAY TO
WARD OFF DEATH
Persons Poisoned May Be Brought
to Life As Long AS There's
O. Heart Beat.

New York, March 29.--That the eff
fects on the human system Of the most
virulent posons may be rendered re-
latively harmless by a simple surgi-
cal expedient Is the announcement, it
is expected. will soon be made by the
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re-
search. So long as there is the faint
est heart beat 1t will be possible to
save any one who has taken what is
now regarded as a fatal dose Of strych-
nine. morphine carbon monoxide, IL
Eliminating gas or kindred poisons. II
is hoped that soon a method will be
found by which all classes OF poisons
may DO included.
The operation bv which this won
derful saving o. .ffe may be accomp-
lished Is technically known as intra-
tracheal justification. This means that
through the trachea, or wind pipe, a
steady supply Of air is forced into the
lungs. 1t differs from all other forms
of artificial respiration in that the
lungs themselves are not called upon
to give any aid. AS matter of fact,
a slender hollow tube forced through
the wind pipe to the openings of the
lungs forces the air through. while
the foul air returns BY pressure
through the wind pipe outside the
tube. The tube Is either inserted
through the mouth or through an
aperture cut In the wind pipe.
CREDIT GOES TO DIR. rELTzER.
To DR.. s. j. Meltzer, head of the de-
| partment Of physiology and phermacolo-
gy. goes the credit for the latest dscov-
cry at the institute For nearly two
| years he. with Drs. Auer and Shakes at
different stages, has been carrying on OK
perments 1t was DR. Meltzcr who made
the preliminary announcement before .
medical association several weeks ago.
At that time he revealed that It was
| hoped TO announce the discover Of the
new method for treating poison cases
within very short time
The record OF the experiments per
formed by the scientists In searching for
their method s. weird narrative TO the
layman 1t includes such things as TO-
! sus"itatinc n dog which had been dead
according to every test. FOR = minutes
1t tells of MANY such animals brought
back to life after being = minutes dead
1t tells OF reviving completely dogs which
had been curarized or paralyzed internal
ly by eurare for four hours. 1t describe
how one dog, dead FOR 10 minutes from
tho effects or morphine, was brought
back to life and kept alive for hours.
SMALL RUBBER TUBE USED.
In all the cases a rubber tube of Z
diameter slightly smaller than wind
pipe rested on the division of tn.
bronchial tubes which lead dircctl,
into the lungs. The pressure Of ali
was supplied by a small foot below
| operated at some distance from tn
table. BY special appliances contain
ing cotton and ether, dust particle
and other deleterious matter was pre-
vented from penetrating the lungs.
with that supply OF air fowinl
into the lungs, no matter how feebl
might be the spark OF life, It wa
maintained or famed into flame.
} II had few animals which wer
completely resuscitated after Their
were no heart beats for fifteen min
} utes," says Dr. Meltzer. The lOnEes
period of time he noticed, whore Their
) was complete recovery. was twenty
one minutes. That dog, it is said, go
we'll.