Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — Serum to Save Drowning Persons. [ARTICLE]

Serum to Save Drowning Persons.

Experiments are being made with a serum which is said to have been used with success In restoring cases of asphyxiation and drowning in animals several hours after life has been, to all appearances extinct. There appears to be one drawback in the result thus far, however, in that in many instances there have been serious after effects such as high blood pressure or hardening of the arteries. If the serum Is to be perfected, as ap-j pears to be likely, the physicians ar« of the opinion that it- can be injected several hours after the accident and restore life. In one case the serum was used on an animal that had been apparently dead from drowning for a, period of four hoots. The animal was brought back to life, though it died later from blood pressure.