Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — THE GIBBONS RESUSCITATOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE GIBBONS RESUSCITATOR.

Designed to Revive Those Apparently Dead from Electrical Shock. Dr. P. J. Gibbons, of Syracuse, N. Y., who applied to Governor Flower for permission to use his apparatus for resusci-

tating victims of electricity on Murderer Wilson, who is to be executed in Auburn prison, speaking of his attempt to try the apparatus on Wilson, said that the Attorney General had notified him that neither the Governor nor the superintendent of prions nor the warden of Auburn prison had authority to grant

the desired permission. Dr. Gibbons added: “My apparatus is designed to resuscitate people who have undergone electrical shock, taken poison, been long immersed in water, or have suffered from similar misadventure. To resuscitate people it is necessary simply to restore breath into them. There are a number of methods now in use for this purpose. My instrument is designed to restore suspended animation more expeditiously and more certainly than any method now in use.’’ Dr. Gibbons' invention is a simple double bellows. The end of the long tube is inserted in the mouth of the patient, or if this be closed, in an opening made in the throat. The patient’s nose is closed, and when the handle of the bellows is raised the air rushes from the patient’s lungs into one apartment of the bellows. Simultaneously the other apartment is filled with fresh air through a tube on the

reverse side. This air is forced into the lungs by the compression of the handles. This is all there is to it. Dr. Gibbons says a large percentage of deaths from electricity are not instantaneous. and could be averted by using his invention. The vollage necessary to kill is not a fixed quantity. In State executions from 1,200 to 1,800 volts are used, whereas, he says, he is acquainted with one case where a man operating an electric dynamo received a shock from a’ current of 4,600 volts .strong, and was resuscitated by ordinary methods after seven minutes. In another case Dr. Gibbons’ own assistant, a Air. Greenwood, received 1,500 volts and was restored. D’Arsonval reports a case where a man received 5,000 volts and was resuscitated after half an hour.

DR. P. J. GIBBONS.

THE GIBBONS RESUSCITATOR.