NEW TEST OF DEATH
PROVING THE ABSENCE OF LIFE IN TISSUES. A discovery of great value for testing with certainty whether a person is dead has been made by Br. Shiro Tashiro, Professor of Physiology at Chicago University. As described in the "Lancet," it is too technical for the layman's understanding, but a doctor explains that the test is made by crushing a. piece of muscle and comparing it with a piece of uncruslied muscle. If the person is alive the crushed piece Rives off more carbonic-acid gas than the uncruslied piece, as a result of the stimulation produced by the injury. Dr. Tashiro claims that this test can bo applied within a few minutes-, or at most within one or two hours of death.
There are, of course, other tests with which every doctor is quits satisfied, but this will lie extremely valuable, as proving- local dpath of the tissues after general death hns occurred. There is life in the tissues for.some time after death, and proof of their death sets all doubts at rest.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 34, 3 November 1917, Page 7
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176NEW TEST OF DEATH Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 34, 3 November 1917, Page 7
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