The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-09
SIGNS OF THIRD STATE BETWEEN
 LIFE AND DEATH
Experiments at Johns Hopkins Indicate That There May Be Suspended Animation
 or Latent Life"

Baltimore, May 9.-A third state be- tween life and death, a. state of latent Iife'' Or suspended animation, has been suggested by a series of experiments recently made in the psychological and histological laboratories of the Johns Hopkins Medical School These exper- innents, which have been under way for number of months show, ft is believed. number of steps between life and death.
 state between life and death, but the investigations made show in appar- ently dead organisms, phases of de- pressed vitality so closely resembling death as to be indistinguishable from 1t. Organisms having every appear ance of being lifeless have neverthe- less again manifested vital character istics.
 Bacteria, the lowest organisms, have enormous powers of resisting condi- tions that tend to death. Those of various diseases have been shown in the laboratory frozen at the tenpera- ture of liquid air. or 360 degrees below zero Fahrenheit They do not die as a rule, and often survived and re- tained their specific vital pathogenic characteristics.
 FREEZING SUsPENDS ANIMAL
 LIFIE
 There are instances where such cold blooded animals as frogs, snails and fish have had their lives suspended by freezing, sometimes thoroughly that their intestines can be taken out and yet on being "thawed o1t.'' after a period of weeks, revive most actively
 In the warm-b -blooded animals even man himseH, one does not find such. extreme instances of suppression of vitality, the experimenters say, as in the case of the lower organisms crea- tures with more sluggish and there Ivy 101iST7 n Hence the theories are not yet appl1ca- b1e to human beings.
 The interesting inference from all these eases of latent life or suspended animation is that, though vitality can not be said to have vanished, yet the organism during all the time of laten-i cy shows none of the signs of the pos session of vitality. It is not taking food, oxygen or water; it is not giving out carbon dioxide or water or other chemical results of bodily activity. It is not moving of its own volition; and in the higher animals both the heart and breathing activities are in abey- ance.
 No state could be. 1t is said, more like death. Latent Hfe.f not sleep, is the true image of death. Revivability is there; therefore. life is depre masked, but not abolished.
 SOME SUCCESSFUL ExPERE
 MEnTs.
 
 Recently some very interesting and successful efforts were made in the medical school to revive the appar- entIy dead heart of an animal, as ex- pIained by pr. Alexis CSarrel, who re- gently lectured before the student body here. Tn about five cases out of ten the heart of a living animal, for ex- ample, a chicken, took on renewed en- ergy several hours after death. Im- mediately after death, the heart was frozen and kept A few hours later 1t was resuscitated by massage
 No claim is made that after death l life can be restored, but in many i'm stances where life is thought to be l extinct 1t is only masked, and it re- mains for the scientist to discover through experiment. whether he IS dealing with death itself or with 'la- l tent hfe.''
 Tn this connection it is recalled that a scientist recently announced 1t might l be possible to resuscttate Capt. Scott. i the British explorer, who was frozen as he was returning from the South l Pole