Evening star., 1937-08-11
DEATH 'DEAD[|NE'
ONLY Is MINUTES
Time Stands Still That Iona
for Each of Us After
We Ere Dead.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August l3.-It's Just
IS minutes to eternity.
Time stands still that long for each
OF us just after we die. Only IS
minutes. A quarter OF an hour.
Anything can happen in those Is
minutes.
A baby may be born, from a dead
mother, as one was last week in Phila-
delphia.
A man may die, and come back to
life.
All science knows about those mys-
terious minutes is that they are
there. That has been proved hun
dreds Of times Life has gone, and
returned, within that span. But rec
orus at the New York Academy of
Medicine show that IS minutes is the
dea dime
Baby Fanny BoccaSsini had those
Is minutes in which to be born after
her mother died of tubercular menin-
gifts in Philadelphia. The oxygen
supply her mother had left her would
last that long after the mothers
heart had stopped the academy said
Asphyxiation would come when that
time passed.
Minutes to Spare.
Doctors delivered Baby Boccassini
alive by Caesarean section with min
utes to spare, although the infant died
later.
Why is it IS minutes, and not 10,
or IL?
No one knows. except that it seems
mans nerves can remain unimpaired
just that long after his heart stops
beating or his breathing ceases.
At least 500 persons in the United
States are witnesses to the 15-minute
rule That many have returned to
life in New York and Chicago alone
after being declared dead. Medical
more could similarly be revived each
year if the methods we're we'll enough
known.
The best known case of a dead
man who came back is John Fucker
ing of Birmingham, England His
his heart was silent When he was
conscious again he described beau
tiful land he had visited and said
he wished he had stayed there
Restorations of life are attempted
only when physicians expect COM
plete recovery. No one ever has been
brought back from death caused by
wasting disease. No doctor ever
tried it.
Sudden Deaths Reversed.
Sudden deaths are the ones usually
reversed. They normally result from
sudden blockage OF the heart or lungs
Angina pectoris is like that. 50 is
coronary thrombosis. carbon mon
oxide poisoning. electric shock, poison
gas, drowning, anesthesia, some infec-
tions, infantile paralysis, mechanical
Suffocation, pulmonary complications.
lung collapse, drug poisoning and
burns
When the lungs are blocked the
doctors resort to insufflation. method
Of feeding mixtures OF oxygen and
carbon dioXide into the lungs under
pressure.
Insulation has brought back life to
babies who have been pronounced
dead.
When the heart stops beating it is
started again with injections OF adlen-
ain or caffein, or stimulated with an
electric needle Of gold. The injections
cause a shock that starts the human
motor moving again. The needle is
able to do the same because after
heart action halts. that organ becomes
rapidly acid and acid is a good cleo
trical conductor.
This is proof that man does rot die
all at once. His brain dLsintegrates
first. Internal organs. like the liver,
live on for hours. Hair follicles sur
Vive for days. But when the nervous
system is injured, you are game. That
seems to happen in IS minutes.