BACK FROM THE DEAD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 18

BACK FROM THE DEAD

CANADIAN DOCTOR'S FEAT Supposedly dead for five minutes, a five-year-old girl has been brought back to life again at Owen Sound, _ Ontario, Canada, by the skill of a specialist, Dr A. F. Laird, who injected nine drops ol adrenalin into her heart. Although similar operations are now fairly common, it is believed in Canada that this is the first case in which a person has been revived after being apparently dead for as long as five minutes. It is certainlv without parallel in Canadian medical" history and it is expected that Dr Laird will contribute a paper on the case to the Canadian Medical Association. The little girl's name wa ß Audrey Brown, and she was operated on tor double mastoid. After the operation her heart failed, this being attributed to a recent attack of scarlet fever. .There is not the slightest doubt that the child was dead and that the adrenalin injection brought her back to life," said Dr Laird. Other notable adrenalin triumphs m recent years are:-In 1931 Dr Cranston Walker, of Birmingham, England, brought back to life an 11-months-old child whose heart stopped beating for four minutes. La.«t year a 58-year-old English gardener named John Puckering was "dead" for four and si-bnlf minutes, but returned to life. Early this year an undertaker was called to bury a 71-year-old man of Tyler, Texas. Doctors injected adrenalin and the undertaker lost a customer.