DEAD OR ALIVE?
A MEDICAL MYSTERY. STRANGE CASE IN FRANCE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 22: The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" gays that doctors at Clary are unable to decide whether a woman is dead or alive. She wag anaesthetised preparatory to an operation, when the surgeon discovered her heart to have ceased beating, and concluded that she was dead. Some hours later it was found that rigor mortis had not set in. Local physicians summoned refused to give a definite opinion, and sent for a Paris specialist to decide. Meanwhile the woman's relatives remain on tenterhooks watching the body.— (A. and NZ ) I :
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 252, 23 October 1924, Page 5
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