Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
DECLARES LUNGS,
AND NOT HEART,
PUMP THE BLOOD
By J. C. LATIMER

!" GREEN WILLIE, 5. c., Oct. 30.-A
theory that blood is pumped through
the human body by the lungs and not
the heart, upheld by. George Anston.
who has just returned from Wash
on an invention which he says will
prolong life. has started a discussion
among Americas scientists.
II am not willing to take anything
for granted" said Mr.. Anston, $50 /
couldn't believe the statements of
lates the blood. It did not satisfy
my reason, for, viewed with the me-
chanica1 eye, the heart is nothing
more than a pair of check. valves
that insure the one-way flow of the
blood all the time
His theory is that as long as no
part of the body Is worn out life is
not extinct. According to his the
Dry he believes, he says, that many
people who were asphyxiated,
drowned or dead from heart failure
smoke or freezing have been buried
alive. He claims to have proven this
in developing his latest invention.
Claims Science VIII Profit
you must see, too, that the air
does not purify our blood as the old
theory tells \us," he continued, 'for
into actual contact but. the cool air
cools the thin walls of the blood
capillaries and thus keeps the blood
as nearly as possible; to saA- even
temperature. g
Medical men in time will realize
the truth of this proposition and the
science of physiology will, be greatly
improved. But greater than theory
is the scientific fact that the dead
can be brought to life within seventy
two hours after a healthy person
has died from asphyxiation. This is
not to be considered an. unexplain-
abe mystery. but a cold scientific
II. Inventss other Machines
Mr.. Anston is noW thirty-one. years
of age He was born in the tabled
land Of Arcadia When very young
he moved to Athens, where he at
tended school until he was fifteen
yeads of age. when he came to- Am err
lea to enter schools in Chicago and
later in New York, i. n ~
a He Is the inventor of machine
which simultaneously prints and per-
forates motion picture films.
Mr.. Anston, besides making several
novel improvements on wireless OUT
fits and designing an aerial express,
has invented numerous other pieces
of mechanism. a. ar.
His latest invention is his pneu-
mator. fer the manufacture of which
he proposes to locate a factory either
in Atlanta, Shreveport, La, or Green
Vile. According to his description,
the pneumator is mechanical
breatner which. if used as lung ex-
ercising apparatus by any one only
five minutes a day, will cure all Of
the blood circulation ailments, be-
cause it puts the blood into a COM
plete circulation throughout the
body. ~ :, ~, -
"rhe pneumator restores blood cir
culation to drowned. asphyxiated or
people dead from heart failure, when
their blood is kept or brought to a
natural state. AS decomposition on a
dead body does not set in until after
seventy-two hours after death Gin
fact, the ancient Greeks did not bury
their dead from six to eleven days
after death) then we put anyone that
is drowned into a hot bath, pump all
air or gas cut of him with the pneu-
mator, then see that his blood is
liquifed. The pneumator is used TN
til natural respiration sets in. 1t
works, according to my theory of the
circulation of blood, which is that the
lungs and not the heart cause the
circulation. All people supposed to
be dead and buried from asphyxfa
ton, drowning or heart failure, l
dare saw have been buried alive"