Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1916 — “DEAD” SOLDIER IS REVIVED [ARTICLE]

“DEAD” SOLDIER IS REVIVED

British Surgeon Massages a Man’s Heart and Thus Restores Its Action. London. —A wonderful case of restoring the dead to life has Just come to light in the case of Lance Corporal Mayes of the Queen’s Westminsters, who had part of his right arm blown off by a shell In the fighting at Ypres. The Injury. was so bad that after the first-aid dressings the limb had to be amputated. He qame to England and was in a hospital In the Midlands for some time. A short time ago he recovered sufficiently to leave the hospital and came to London apparently quite well. But from some reason infection again appeared In the amputated arm and a further operation was deemed necessary to stop the danger of poisoning;. Corporal Mayes was put under an anesthetic, but the heart collapsed and ceased to beat. The case seemed to be.hopeless and the waiting relatives in a few mlnntes would have been Informed of his death. But. Dr. Lionel E. C. Norbury, the distinguished surgeon who handled the case, was not beaten. He made an Incision in the side of the patient and, inserting hia hand and lifting the diaphragm, reached the heart and gently massaged the organ with his fingers. The heart responded to the action and began to beat again. The patient had been restored to life when all other means would have failed. • Lance Corporal Mayes is now on the high road to complete recovery.