The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-19
NURSES SKILL
THRUSTS ASIDE
DEATHS HAND
Mrs. Mccormick CIingS to
Life Only by Miracle
in Treatment.
END is BELIEVED NEAR
Reused for Few Moments
to Greet Daughter, Home
After Long Trip.

By Times Special
CHICAGO, Aug. 19-Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick, dowager of
Americas wealthiest family, re-
neWed her losing fight against death
today, after her life was saved
Thursday night by nursing mira
Gle.
Physicians feared the end rapidly
was nearing, but there was one note
OF cheer in the sickroom, for the
family was reunited for the first
time in years in the near-presence
OF death.
Mrs. Mccormick was alive today
only because of the superlative skill
OF Florence l.. Everett, famed east
ern nurse.
Aunt Flo" as she is known to
the hundreds of patients whom she
has nursed back to health, brought
the sufferer out of a coma in which
she had lain for hours, after ply
sicians had abandoned hope.
Unable to Talk to Daughter
Miss Everett, with the last hope
for recovery of her patient re-
linquished, had returned to the
apartments of Fowler Mccormick, to
pack her bags for the return trip
to the east.
A few moments before, Mrs Ma
thilde Oser, daughter of Mrs. Nc
Cormick, had arrived after & 1000
mile trip from Switzerland. Her
mother was unconscious and mem
bers of the family feared she would
not emerge from the coma to speak
word of farewell to her daughter.
Word was sent to Miss Everett.
She rushed back to the sickroom.
The presence of Mrs. Oser gave her
the determination to take a deS-
perate chance.
You may feel that this process
is too drastic for woman in Mrs.
Mccormick condition." she told
attending doctors, who stood by
helplessly. But if she is going to
die, anyway, this may revive her
long enough to speak TO Mrs OSer."
Consciousness Returns
For an hour, the nurse admin
istered a interchangeable treat
ment She washed away the gas
and other distractions in the
stomach of the patient with water,
which had paralyzed the sick wom-
ans nerves and mind.
Finally there was a stirring, a
f1utter of the eyelids. Then Mrs.
Mccormick opened her eyes. Con-
seriousness returned.
She smiled at Miss Everett,
stretched out her hand to the head
of her kneeling daughter, and MUIR
INJURED a few words Of greeting and
love.
Physicians gave full tribute to the
skill of Aunt Flo" They admitted,
however, that the end could be fore
stalled but a short time longer.
Kept Alive by Will
Even now, they said the woman
who for years has been the dictator
of Chicago society is kept alive al
most entirely by her indomitable
will to live. The psychology she
learned in several years study un-
der Frued and Jung in Switzerland
is aiding her. they said, in the I'M
equal fight.
Her condition was given as I'M
changed in the last bulletin issued
from the sickroom. However, ply
sicians feared their patient might
suffer another sinking spell of the
type which several times in recent
weeks nerly has brought death.
In an apartment close by the Nc
Cormick suite were Mrs. Mathilde
Mccormick Oser, wife of former
Swiss riding master. and Mrs. Mu-
riel Mccormick Hubbard, daughters
of the stricken woman Mrs. Nc
Cormick's son Fowler and his wife
and her divorced husband, Harold
F. Mccormick.