REVIVAL OF DEAD

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 140, 9 March 1929, Page 9

REVIVAL OF DEAD

RUSSIAN PROFESSOR’S DECLARATION Australian Press Association. (Rec. March 8, 5.5 p.m.) Moscow, March 8. Professor ‘ .Theodore Andreiev, of Moscow, has made an astonishing declaration on the principle of the revival of the dead. He had already demonstrated, he declared, that it only required that surgeons should work out the technique to achieve practical results. Provided the heart, lungs, and essential organs were structurally intact, it should be possible to revive those dead for several years. A corpse was placed on the operating table, and Professor,'. Andreiev injected a ringer lokke, solution ( and apdrenalin, in the presence of a group of assistants. The dead man’s heart began to heave violently, and gurgling sounds came from the throat, causing the frightened assistants to decamp. The heart beat fdr twenty minutes. The experiment was repeated, but owing to the public prejudice against the use of human bodies, dead dogs were used, from whom the blood was extracted, or. they were killed by injections of poison. One dog was poisoned, and was revived again. It was then poisoned, and several months later again revived, and continued to live normally. Professor Kullabko, another pioneer in the work, revived dead fishes. The science of electro-cardio-graphy recently had proved that life lingers after clinical death or the cessation of breathing. A remarkable series of electro-cardiographic charts show hearts that are alive sometimes sixty minutes after death is pronounced. This interval would provide doctors an opportunity to effect a revival.