Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — Mostly Medical. [ARTICLE]

Mostly Medical.

In a case of sudden and prolonged cessation of the heart’s action while giving chloroform during an operation, Dr. L. L. McArthur restored the heart to action by thrusting a needle between the ribs and Into the apex of the heart, thus to Irrjtate its muscle. He has found this method of use in other cases, and when milder means fail this sort of stabbing is certainly a useful resource to one who knows Just where to strike the steel into the heart. Mabie Wilt, the once noted soprano, who committed suicide in Vienna last September, met her death by jumping from a fourth-story window. A baii.boad in the Argentine Republic has one stretch of 211 miles without a curve or bridge.