EXTRAORDINARY CASE
HEART STOPS BEATING. BREATHING RESUMED AFTER FIVE MINUTES. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, January 27. The British Medical Journal records the extraordinary case of John Puckering, aged 58, a Birmingham gardener, whose heart and breathing completely stopped for five minutes while Dr Percival Mills was operating on him for a duodenal ulcer. Dr Mills said: Everybody in the operating theatre believed the patient was dead and I continued with massage of the heart only from a sense of public duty while my assistant injected adrenalin. Suddenly I felt a faint flicker and the heart started beating vigorously again. Artificial respiration was continued while I hurriedly completed the operation. Three weeks later Puckering had completely recovered and he has now resumed gardening.
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Southland Times, Issue 22492, 29 January 1935, Page 5
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