The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-11-12

have attained Worid-Wloe fehoNh IN"
examiner in zoology to the University
of London. believes that when man mas
remodeled his environment to conform
more closely to his physical needs there
will be no reason why the duration
Of life may not be heightened lnuel'
initely.
DIR. Stephen Smith, founder OF New
York City s sanitary system, believes
that in century all contagious dis
eases-the most prolific causes OF death
will have disappeared.
MetcbAikoff, discoverer Of the glyco-
bacter and persistent inquirer INTO
those still mysterious phenomena
known as life and death, AYERS that
when surgery has accomplished the re-
moving of the great intestine = each
day the asylum of some one hundred
and twenty-eight trillion microbes
man will live one hundred and forty
years, perhaps much longer.
Thomas A. Edison, intrepid explorer
of unknown realms, predicts the time
will come when man will have learned
to conserve his vital resources and
lenrthen the span of life by many,
many years.
Prof. f. A. Schaefer, president OF
the British Association, believes that
some day the material that composes
the nucleus, the quintessence OF cell
life. may be prepared alphabetically as
an artificial compound-in other words,
that life may be created through chemi-
cal process.
Graphing With Death.
Tins the master minds of science are
graphing with the common enemy,
Death, writes Herman Landon in the
Chicago Record Herald. In moments OF
relaxation they dream boldly of artiti.
cial creation of life and the gradual
lengthening of the period between birth
and DEATH In the mean time they are
making slow but definite progress to-
ward the goal. The conquests have
been isolated, scattered and far be-
tween, but the total already has
brought about a perceptible lengthen-
ing of life. Doctor Kock discovered
what he hoped would prove certain
DESTROYER of the tubercle bacilli, and
through results did not meet his expec'
tations it was distinct step forward.
Doctor Enrich composed serum that,
in the opinion of many scientists, VIII
gradually eliminate a scourge that IN
past centuries has annihilated armies.
Surgeons have devised methods where
by even the heart may be operated
upon. Surgical achievements once re-
parded utterly impossible have become
incidents of common practise. II no
one has yet succeeded in restoring ac.
ton of the heart once it has stopped
beating science has accomplished won
derfui devices by'which- the life spark
is sustained through crises that other
wise would have meant sure death,
Saving the Life Spark.
One of these devices is the pnlmotor
introduced into Chicago nine months
ago and already Boosting record OF
success in nearly five-sixths of al
cases in which it has been applied.
The minds that invented and are nov
bringing the pulmotor to'a stage o.
greater efficiency are sternly scientific
They are. too deeply concerned witt
concrete facts and formulas to indulge
in idle dreamings. They do not recog
nize miracles. But short time age
Doctor Potian, renowned sclentis
and member of the German Medica
Association, read a paper before {
Koenigsberg meeting of that organiZa
ton in which he boldly asserted;
"a small masterpiece in technic ha
been recently produced in the automa
5 tic oxygen reviving apparatus know
as the pulmotor which effects artificial
respiration automatically. A perfect,
lifeless body begins to breathe in
truly natural manner as soon as IT !
connected to the pulmOtor. The breath
ing is so regular as to naturally provid
the lungs with oxygen, just as in nat
ural respiration, so long as there is eve
so slight movement of the blood pres
emit, through the action of the heart, i
the apparent corpse
Contained in small and severel
plain wooden case easily carried by tw
persons the marvellous apparatus know
:, as the pulmotor is almost uncanny j
its simplicity. It's want of spectacnla
features renders the simple metho
with which it operates almost weird.
An emergency call reaches the otfie
of the load dispatcher in the Ediso
building.
Man asphyxiated, is the message
Hurry to No. -- - street.
The message has barely been receive
when two men rush into the office, on
selling the simple wooden box that col
tains the pulmotor, while the other lead
the way to the elevator. At the door a
automobile reserved for pnlm0tor cal
is waiting. The race with death begin
IA lONs OF TWO minutes h1hl HHhH ihl
ure. But unless there are obstruction
in the streets pulmotor dispatche
from the nearest pulmotor station ger
orally reaches even the remotest part
of the city within ten minutes after III
call has been received.
The automobile draws mp al the curl
the men spring out,mceRy the litt
wooden box betweenlihhfm into ii
house aud place il ON Haiahle or on II
floor near the patient'B One Of the
bends over the sufferer
Heart bentiugfA asks the other {
be opens the bog,
fcan't tellperhaps slightly"
A Struggle With Death,
The operator seizes little rubber a
plianee attached hy tuhe 10 a eYllnlI
containing Oxygen AZ a pressure of sll
pouHda aud alans II over The mouth af
nose Of the patient IN ihe other har
DE- holds q pair NJ f0fefm viii WhIl
he graspa the fRlieut's lopmf and fol'
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