Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — The Tenacity of Life. [ARTICLE]

The Tenacity of Life.

The astounding tenacity with which life clings to the human body is a good thing to remember In these summer days when the bathing resorts are taking their annual toll of human life. The case of Robert Mooney, reported by the life-saving service of the Third ijivi/fe ion, is a good illustration of this fact. He was brought to terra firrna after being under water for twenty-three minutes. Tbe life savers worked over him for an hour and three-quarters before the first sign of returning life was obtained, and "be did not regain consciousness until the next day. If his body had been recovered by ordinary Untrained men there is little question that he never would have regained consciousness at all. After fifteen or twenty minutes of artificial respiration hope would have been given up and the faint little spark of life which evidently re- • paaincd allowed to die out for lack of perseverance. After the removal of water from the lungs artificial respiration should be resorted to and continued for several hours if necessary, a physician of course being summoned at once. —New York Globe.