FROZEN ALIVE AND THEN REVIBED.
Professor Bakhmetieff, of Moscow* University, has proved that animals may be frozen alive and then resuscitated without the slightest harm. The first experiments were made with cold-blooded animals and insects. Butterflies were enclosed in a vessel containing air at a temperature of minus 23deg. centigrade. The body fluids immediately froze hard, all vital actions ceased, and, in ordinary 'phraseology, the butterflies were "frozen to death." Professor Bakhmetieff soon "discovered, however, that by slow and) careful warming they could be restored to life at any time before the body temperature had fallen below minus lOdeg. Centigrade. Further tests showed that when the resuscitation process was begun at a body temperature of minus '4 x /_deg. Centigrade, recovery was quickest and most complete. The next stage was the repetition of the experiment on warm-blooded animals and on mammals. Two hundred tests in all were made, and nearly all succeeded. Bats were refrigerated and kept "dead" for many weeks, and then completely restored.
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Northern Advocate, 12 June 1913, Page 7
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