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ICE BLOCK RESTORED LIFE LONDON, June 24. Mrs. Francis Seymour, aged 77, of Pinney’s Green, Berkshire, who was cook to King Edward VII described this week what it felt like when she died. A victim of septic poisoning following childbirth in her early married life, she died in a. London hospital. Doctors crowded round her bed, felt her pulse and shook their heads. Two minutes later one of them had an. inspiration. Mrs. Seymour was lifted from her bed on to a block of ice, and she shivered herself back from-th-e dead. - • —- - “It- was very- pleasant being-dead." Mrs.' Seymour said. “My pain had vanished and I '•felt afterwards that it was nice, going out like that. When I came back to life, shivering on that ice block, my pain returned. I had shivered so much on the ice that the vibration of my body started my. heart beating again.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1939, Page 14
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