BRINGING THE DEAD TO LIFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

BRINGING THE DEAD TO LIFE.

The New York World states that an object of great curiosity in Bridgeport, Conn., is a rabbit which Professor George Poe, a relation of the late Edgar Allan Poe, haß drowned eleven times and then brought back to life. The professor has invented a pair of artificial lungs which he uses to restore drowning or asphyxiating. To demonstrate its usefulness he submerges his rabbit in the water in the presence of witnesses, and holds it there for ten minutes. The rabbit has also been smothered with the fumes of burning charcoal until all signs of life have been extinct. A mirror held at the mouth and nose showed no vapour, neither was there any heart action. Professor Poe then attached his patent bellows, covering over the mouth, and forced oxygen into the lungs. The returning suction of the pumps draws out the deadly gases, and thus an artificial respiration produced a muscular expansion and contraction of the lungs of the subject uutil life was restored. Professor Poe claims that he can drown and restore human beings as well as rabbits. He will not divulge the secret of compounding or the quantities of gases used. He thinks his artificfal lungs will become generally adopted by fire departments and hospitals throughout the country.