BACK TO LIFE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12486, 21 October 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

BACK TO LIFE

DEAD FOR 45 MINUTES. Professor Alexander Smirnov, of Moscow, lias restored life to a man Who had been dead for forty-five minutes; the cause of the death was heart-failure. In this case the operation had to be performed before the body became stiff. The heart was laid bare at once and injections were pumped into it in the direct path of circulation. Ultra-short radio waves were then brought into use, and an artificial heart-beat was induced by this means. After fifteen minutes the heart was beating normally, and circulation was restored. The pulse was taken next day and found to be normal. Professor Smirnov has restored life to fully a dozen people. In this connection a startling suggestion comes from Germany. ■'The

proposal is that the ice-fields of Northern Siberia be explored for a mammoth preserved in the ice. It is not impossible that extinct creatures may exist in frozen preservation, for some of the ice in Polar regions is of great age. Mammoths have been found imbedded in the soil of Siberia, some of tham standing erect, with fleshy parts and hairy covering still adhering to the bones. To find such a creature and restore IT to life would indeed by an achievement! —“Chambers Journal,” London.