A WOMAN’S VITALITY
DEATH TWICE CHEATED. REMARKABLE POWERS OF RESISTANCE, (Pleas Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 25. (Received Jan. 26, at 8 p.m.) After 31 operations - and being twice certified as dead, Mrs Shrive, aged r 's, was buried at Rushden. Thirty years ago, as she was being carried to the Bristol mortuary, the bearers stumbled, and the woman was found to be alive. Two years later she was laid out as dead, but she regained consciousness. She had since suffered from lupus and cancer, but she had an exceptionally sound heart. Her case) was regarded by medical men as a marvellous one of resistance against a malignant disease. At the request of tbe relatives two of the woman’s arteries were severed before she was interred. A. and N.Z. Cabl.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20008, 27 January 1927, Page 9
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