RESTORED BY HEART MASSAGE.

Mataura Ensign, 22 March 1909, Page 4

RESTORED BY HEART MASSAGE.

has been performed. Th,, case was that of a hov whose vital organs eeased to ••"•I (luring an operation which was I icing performed on his knee. Alter all eil.er methods Ui revive him had failed 'he physician resorted la tln- desperate in. iiiis of making an incision in tlie bey's abdomen and massaging th" musics of (h,. heail. Tlu drastic Ircalmeiil reslored him to life after, lo all appearances, he had died while on Ihe operating table, and he revived siilli--N-nily to Milimit lo the conclusion ol' I lie opeialiou on the knee. He died, however, three davs alter Ihe operation mi lite heart. hu| according to the pliv. He,an might hive lived had mil blood poisoning due u> Ihe inleclion ol Ihe knee set iii. A number of such operalions hare (says 'Science Sil'tiligs') been made in Germany and I lie massaging icstiu-eil life fin- Ihe lime being, hut a revived patient has lived any length of time.