A MEDICAL MYSTERY
PATIENT’S HEART STOPS BEATING. DOCTORS BAEFLED. Preefi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, October 22. The Daily Express’s Paris correspondent says: “Doctors at Clary were unable to decide whether a woman was dead or alive. She was anaesthetised preparatory to an operation, when the surgeons discovered that her heart had ceased beating, and they concluded that she was dead; but some hours later they found that rigor mortis had not set in. Local physicians who were summoned refused to give a definite opinion, and they sent for a Paris specialist to decide the question. Meanwhile the woman’s relatives remain on tenterhooks watchin" the body.—A. and N.Z. Cable. °
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19311, 24 October 1924, Page 7
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