REVIVING THE "DEAD."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 6

REVIVING THE "DEAD."

According to an American technical | mflfazine, a respirator is shortly to be flaocd (in th-- market which will be oi immense benefit to humanity. Some years f£o the inventor succeeded in resuscitating an apparently dead rat by the simple process of pumping oxygen into its lungs, and with this experiment as a basis lie evolved a respirator which is said to Be thit is claimed of it is true, it certainly is. The inventor became convinced that to revive persons drowned or suffocated, it was tirst- necessary to' draw tto foisoncus gashes out of the and thai pump oxygen in. Ills respirator consists uf two cylinders with a pump in each. One movement of tho pump draws the gasses from the lungs into one clinder, while the next movement forces oxygen from the ether cylinder into the lungs. If the article is to be believed, animals declared by piofeasirnal men to be dead hive been resuscitated by this means. A rabbit v.as subjected by a doctor to ail injection of two grains cf morphine, and then given four ounces of ether. Everytest known to science was then made, and the rabbit declared to bo dead. The tul'c; were then applied to its nostrils and tho machine set in motion Within three minutes the rabbit was breathing in a. natural manner, and in six minutes was running about tne room. It exhibited ne signs of n-uaea, showing that the ether had been entirely driven out of its system. A dog immersed in acetylene gas for forty minutes, was revived within a short period, and seemed to be in no way the worse for its experienc". It is claimed that the usefulness of the machine cannot be overestimated. Thousands of infants lives will be saved by it. It will do away with the danger from over-doses of anesthetics. The apparently drowned—so long, presumably, as they liavo not ba:n ton long in the water—will 1)0 revived eisily and quiekly. It w.ll l>e possible to prevent death by freezing, which is merely a form o? asphyxiation. And to come down to something 'ess vital, but important, a man in a drunken sleep may IK quickly ol ered by using the machine tc qmcken his respiration. The machine is caid to bo inexpensive and simple, and it is predicted that in time it will be u ed universally.