Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — When Is a Man Really Dead? [ARTICLE]

When Is a Man Really Dead?

Floresco claims to have brought back life to dogs whose hearts have stopped from -1 went y-U w ta-furty minutes. 11 e applies electrodes directly to the lieart, .cither on the outside or by needles to the inside of the ventricles. Janilew sky has started lieart beats in a rabbit twenty-four hours after death,-and in tha hurices three days after death. This he accomplished by perfusion of the lieart by l.wke’s solution. Inhibition of this heart action can be brought about by applying electrodes at the root of the aorta. Locke and Rosenheim perfustHl a lieart that hail been hanging in the laboratory for five days since its removal from the rabbit’s body, and caused It to give beats of considerable magnitude. Howell of Johns Hopkins concludes from his experiments that Inhibition of the heart depends on the presence of diffusible potassium compounds of this character. From the physiological standpoint, therefore, it look's as if the day may come when death will be cheated of Its prey, and the heart forced to take up again the work that It has laid down. —Amei’ietiH Journal—of—llomoo. pa thy,