Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — REVIVES THOSE BELIEVED DEAD [ARTICLE]

REVIVES THOSE BELIEVED DEAD

New Serum Discovered at Johns Hopkins Causes Heart to React. WORKING ON A NEW THEORY Will Revolutionize the Treatment of Persons Apparently Dead From Drowning or Asphyxiation — After Effects Serious in Some ~n Baltimore, Md.—A departure in medical science which, if successful, will revolutionize the treatment of persons apparently dead from drowning or asphyxiation is now being experimented with at the Johns Hopkins hospital. The new treatment will be the injection of a serum to stimulate the blood to such an extent as will form a reaction of the heart. This will keep the person alive until the apparatus perfected some time ago to clear the lungs can be put into use. The serum has been tried on a number of animals in the laboratories of the institution, and in a number of cases has proved successful. However, in most of the cases there have been after-effects such as high blood pressure or hardening of the arteries. Dead Four Hours —Revives. According to the physicians, if the serum can be perfected, and there is every assurance at this time that it can, the serum can be injected in the person several hours after the accident and restore the persons to life. In one case, on an animal, the serum was injected four hours after the drowning took place and the animal was brought back to life, but died later of a high blood pressure. The physicians for more than three years have worked on the theory that the heart in drowned or asphyxiated persons is still active, in a way, for

some time after the accident, and that if the organ can be kept in that state until the patient can be treated to clear the lungs hundreds of persons who are given up as dead can be saved. Restore Freezing Victims. Some time ago a New York physician claimed to have perfected a machine to be used in restoring life to persons frozen to death. The apparatus was tried irt a number of cases in the Arctic regions and, according to the accounts, met with some success. It was only a short time after this that the physician at the Johns Hopkins hospital invented a machine to restore to life those apparently dead from drowning. The machine proved successful on animals that could be put under treatment immediately after the accident.