RESTORED TO LIFE
IIEMARKALE OPERATION,
OLD WOMAN’S CLOSE CALL.
SYDNEY, Aug. 25
A surprising case of an apparently dead person lining restored to life occtired last week at the Mater Miserioordiae Hospital, North Sydney. A major operation was being performed on a woman 76 years o d when the patient eol'nsped and died. —or so it appeared to the ten or twelve medical practitioners who were present. All +he usual methods to restore animation were used without suexcess. The o'd lady’s heart had stopped, the nulsc was st’l', the eyes bemm’ to blaze the tongue hrl fallen hack For 12 minutes the body lay inn "'mate. Then, bv wav of an experiment, the surgeon thought that he would try massaging the heart. He began to applv pressure and in a. few minutes, to the amazement of a/ present, the patient showed signs of life. The obi dadv is now doing well, while ilio medical fraternity of Australia l ave been furnished with an excopt oua’ v useful studv in the quesDrtn • “What is the difference-if anypHetween suspended animation and death?”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10093, 4 September 1925, Page 3
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