FROM DEATH TO LIFE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1030, 13 April 1912, Page 4

FROM DEATH TO LIFE.

The cable last week brought news of adariug surgical operation that had been performed iu the United States, a portion of a man’s brain having been removed and a section of the brain of a stillborn infant substituted for it. Accounts of even more sensational occurrences have been printed recently it? America, and have attracted a good deal of attention. Certain doctors in Chicago, it is reported, have been remarkably successful iu restoring the dead, or “apparently dead,” to life. The New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph states that the newspapers in New York have published details of cases that have been treated iu Chicago by means of a wondeilul apparatus, the “pulmotor,” which has been used successfully on people pronounced dead by physicians, bringing them back to life, and, what is more, in perfect health. “The persistency with which the stories are printed,” adds the correspondent, “inclines one to the belief that they are founded on truth.” A young man named Haas was asphyxiated by gas a few weeks ago, and after his friends had spent three hours iu trying to restore him to consciousness, he was given up as dead. Dr J. Lewis was called in, the pulmotor was employed, and three hours later the young man was able to sit up, declaring that he felt as well as he had done before he had been overcome. Dr Lewis said that when he was called in Haas was “in a state of death,” and that “practically speaking he was dead.” Those who witnessed the operation were awed, and even terrified, at seeing the spirit ot lile forced to return. According to report, Haas is the fifth man who has been “called back from death,” and fifteen others would have died without the help of the wonderful instrument. The pulmotor is a German device, consisting simply of a tank holding oxygen under a pressure ol 3000 II) to the square inch, with a pump and valve for reducing the pressure. If it really possesses the wonderful power that has been claimed for it, more should be heard of it before long.