Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1914 — Kept Alive by Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Kept Alive by Electricity.

The attention of surgeons at the General hospital. Birmingham,' England, has been occupied by the most remarkable case of a lad eleven years of age. He was admitted to the institution suffering from a tumor On the brain, the removal of which necessitated a most serious operation. While the surgeons were at work the patient stopped breathing and artificial respiration was resorted to. During the course of the operation a large portion of the skull was removed, and when the pressure from the brain was lightened the lad began to breathe again. An electric battery was applied to the chest, and the muscles being thus affected the breathing motion produced proved sufficient to keep the lad alive. '