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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1917, Page 5

The story of how Albert Da.vles, six, hnil his heart's action restored b# massage after thirteen minutes' cessai linn is related in the privately clrcu-; hied "flawt-te" issued to the staff ot Buy's Hospital, , After the boy's ton&Uf. ijiftil been removed, lie stopped breath-: , tag. Other means failing to restore t&' f.jiiratioii, which had ceased for twelvt minutes, an incision was lrtade to eili able the surgeon to massage the heart After about twenty squeezes the hea,t< was suddenly felt to be beating, am, respiration was re-established, though at first the pulse was not perceptible, and the boy's condition srcmailied extremely feeble, lie was unconscious for two days. (Inly by unremitting care was ho'brought round gradually to perfect health. The medical fttatement oni the -tnse cone',udes:— I "There have beea several succe.-sful cases recorded of heart massage. luit this case is perhaps unique, in that recovery took place after so long a time of cessation of thd circulation. It can be imagined that lb is extremely dillbiilt to "Ntimata timq in emergencies, bv.t it is certain th&fc the heart, had stopped at !ca?t thirteen miflutev antl tile Ini'rartion of those .... 11 l)Q,lid, ill),