TOYS WITH DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1929, Page 6

TOYS WITH DEATH

SCIENTIST’S MYSTERY

CAREER

Scientists in (England have not hoard much of the iuissian Andreiev, tor smne Lime, but the latest news ironi- Moscow tells of many uncanny OA'poriinenls that lie and a eo.league named jvuiiob.yo have been carrying out wit'll • the object ol finding the time meaning of death.

li is so mo tinny 'that 'happens suddenly or is it a gradual process:' They tl>ink it is gradual, so gradual that one ol' them,-Hr Ivuliobko, claims to nave resuscitated the heart ot a man aider lie had been dead for Severn-, days.

.professor Andrciev, in a recent Moscow lecture, showed the live beating heart of a dog which had been “dead” tor many hours. lie stated his belief that real deatli only occurs after life lias, departed from the cells of the nerve system, and chat life can be revived unless that system is completely disintegrated. Ho further announced his belief that lile could be resuscitated as long as the circulation of the blood could he restored.

Professor Andreley’s life has been as weird as his experiments. Before the war he was a well known worker in the laboratories of St. Peterburg University, with a special . knowledge of the nervous system. Then came the revolution, and Russia had no further need for people of his class. Wlmt happened to him about tint time he has never told, even to his most intimate friends. At any rate, he was condemned to death. He wa ■ taken to Moscow to he executed, hut lie managed to escape. Then began a tramp, ever southwards, towards the shores of the Black Sea. He managed to maintain himself for a year in Odessa as a shoemaker. He went to London destitute, hut found his way to the house of a well known anatomist who know his work and provided him with Ibe means of continuing it. The result was a brilliant description of some, of the minute nerves of the heart, which he sent to the International Anatomical Congress. Now he seems to have been reinstated in his own country.