The Washington herald., 1913-10-12
Dead Man Brought to Life.

Dramatic and even tragic was the emer-
Rency operation of Dr. Claude Bouchon OF
France. Dr. Bouchon, who is a surgeon, hap
pened along one Of the Partisan boulevards
where a terrible automobile accident had
Just occurred. It was evident that one or the
party had been instantly killed and the others
but slightly bruised. DR.. Bouchon. who re-
ports the matter to the French Academy OF
Medicine says that he and one of his assist
ants with two trained nurses were returning
from a suburban call They went at once to
the dead man, and DR.. Bouchon, who had
previously listened to DR.. Alexis Carrel de-
scribe how a heart that has been dead few
minutes can be revived. at once cut into the
dead mans thorax, removed skin. ribs and
the thin tissue bag that incloses the heart;
cleaned away large clot of blood; put two
stitches into the heart; almost before you
could have counted 200 he had gently, care
fully and with delicacy stroked the heart from
above downwards a few times.
All Of this was done in ten minutes from the
time Of the accident. While DR.. Bouchon
thus tenderly maSsaged the heart his assist
ant cut tiny slit in the dead mans windpipe
and established artificial breathing. Sudden
Iy to their pleased surprise the dead mans
color began TO ebb and flow and the heart
started to pulsate without assistance from
DR.. Bouchon. Lo and behold here was a man
stark dead for ten minutes brought back to
life.
Unluckily for a happy ending to my story
DR.. Bouchon's patient probably from COM
plications otherwise not observed again died
a short time afterwards and II was not possi-
BILE this time to call back his wandering soul
But the prophecy held out by DR.. Carrel's
laboratory experiments was fulfilled and
man dead ten minutes was made to live again.
There 10 no doubt that other similar attempts
will be more permanently triumphant and
dead men will. if the doctor gets there soon
enough. tell many tales.
In this season of fountain drinks and slow
poisons it may not be either amiss or too
often repeated to call attention to the fact
that soapbark or saponin is poisonous prep
aration extensively used in Chicago and the
rest of the country to make soft drinks. Gin
ger ale. sarsaparilla, ginger beer, sodas
vichy, pops. ice cream drinks. and the like
contain this substance. It is such powerful
poison that it is curious that health officers
have omitted to trumpet forth some stento-
rian warning sgainst it. Unless more harm
less compounds can be adopted for producing
a fine foam and efrervescencc, it were better
far to have no foam. scuds. suds, lather, and
tiO'ii "ii SNiiiii4ei utiliAS- Inc "lse person Is
he who secures pure soda water by not cray-
ing too much foam.
Although DR.. Theobald Smith Of Boston in
a classical monograph that has become his
torical proved that the human and bovine
bacilli that produce tuberculosis in man and
beast are unquestionably different. it has re-
mained for DR.. J. Fraser of the British Medi-
cal society to set all scoffing at rest by estab-
fishing test that is beyond dispute. II the
pus. he states, is removed from a tubercuIous
bone and then mixed with colony Of cattle
bacilli and colony Of human tubercle bacilli,
this pus if kept in an incubator. will destroy
the particular kind Of bacili that it is used to.
If the malady is caused by the bovine type of
germ, this is the colony that will be DESTROYED.
If due to the human variety, the cattle kind
will survive and the human will die out.