Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1913 — LIFE IS RESTORED [ARTICLE]

LIFE IS RESTORED

Electrical Device Used in Effort to Save Hero. Man’s Heart Beats For Two Hours, After Being Pronounced Dead From Drowning, by Ute of ~ Instrument. New York. —For two hours after he had been declared dead from drowning the young wife and other relatives of Edgar Manjo watched spellbound around him at Babylon, L. 1., as Dr. D. W. Wynkoop slowly brought him back to life, forcing his heart to beat with an electrical device. For long Mt was believed the young man would lie saved, but suddenly respiration ceased and could not again be restored. Monjo, who was only twenty, was a son of Lewis Monjo, a retired export broker, well known on Wall street, and son-in-law of Commodore Searle of the Babylpn Yacht club. With his wife he wsb spending the holiday at her parents’ home and went bathing with his little niece, Susan Searle. A few minutes after they had started the child burst, sobbing, into the Searle house, crying “Uncle is drowned!” When she grew calm enough to tell her story It was evident that Monjo gave his life to save here. The two had waded out into the river hand-in-hand. Apparently they had stepped into a deep hole or off a ledge of ground. Monjo, realizing that he could not swim, had with a laßt desperate effort thrown his niece back Into the shallow, safe water as lie himself went under. Dr. Wynkoop, a local physician, was summoned. He got two short lengths of wire "and placed one at the base of Monjo’s tongue and the other against his diaphragm and connected the free ends with an electrode. Monjo had been pronounced dead more than two hours when Dr. Wynkoop began his. treatment An hour after the electrical machide was set in operation the awed spectators started back in astonishment. There were signs of Returning life. First came a scarcely perceptible movement of the heart Then slowly that organ resumed its functions and respiration was restored. - For two hours the heart beat regularly and respiration continued. The young wife hung over her husband praying that he might be restored to her and waiting for the return of consciousness. But consciousness did not return and suddenly both respiration and heart stopped and could not he re-started. Dr. Wynkoop said he was greatly grieved his efforts had failed. It was the first time, he said, his treatment had been applied to a human being. He had been experimenting with animals some time and had revived many after death, as ordinarily understood, had taken place. He believed that had it been possible for him to begin earlier he would have saved Manjo’s life. He explained that he turned the current on twenty times to the minute. •