RAISED FROM THE DEAD

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 250, 23 October 1935, Page 16

RAISED FROM THE DEAD

Professor Smirnoff, of Moscow, has raised a man from the dead. This is the claim "made over the -Moscow wireless for the man whose “artificial heart” has rendered possible operations formerly undreamed of. A man was brought to Professor Smirnoff’s hospital in Moscow. A gaping wound in his side had drained him of a large quantity of blood. When he reached the hospital his heart had stopped, and he presented every sign of death. Professor Smirnoff connected up the “artificial heart” with tho man s blood circulation He replaced the blood lost by a number of transfusions from other human beings. The wound was bandaged and the “artificial heart” set in action.

In a few moments the patient began to show signs of returning life. Finally the real heart began to beat again. The man was saved, and is already on the road to recovery.

This follows on a demonstration of the same operation on a dog which Professoi Smirnoff made to international specialists at a medical congress in Leningrad. Three medical students iroin Moscow University immediately volunteered to let Professor Smirnoff experiment on them to see if the apparatus could bo applied to humans. Professor Smirnoff reiused.

Now, faced by the success of the operation, he intends to accept the students’ offer.

One of the students is especially interested in studying the sensations which ho would experience during the time of his own apparent death. Professor Smirnoff claims that real death from Joss of blood does not occur for at least thirty minutes alter the heart has ceased to beat. He also claims that the same is true of criminals who have met their “death in the electric chair.