| Show REVIVING THE FROZEN + Napoleon Establshed First Test For Detecting Lfe + A NEEDLE IN THE HEART M RVIED AFR TV DAYS UNDER TB SNOW ± Brains of Some Animals May 5e Frozen Without Fatal Rut Remarkable Cases of Recovery I Frostbite Cases Use Snow and Ice Water Carefully + BY ANNSLEY BURROWES and W OVID 1 T MOOR 1L D The Moscow campaign was ocr and the emperor had returned to Paris horrified by the SCenf5 he had wit csed He had seen thousands of his sldier perish in the snow He had sum men brought into camp unconscious uncon-scious with frost and buried and he firmly believed that many of them had I been buried alive He consulted p1 mcas who admitted that the trance caused by frost was often indistinguishable in-distinguishable from actual death Then the emperor issued a prolama tion calling for advice from the mei cl profession and offering a prize for tile mst useful st ggeslon doctors competed for the lay prizE but Professor ndral won the reward His test wa very simple I consistEd only in listening for the heartbEats by means of a stethoscope und i wa believed that in this way its slightest flutter could be detected But tat method has since ben abandoned for another by means of which life can be detected in a heart which wold seem dead to a person operating with a stethoscope This Idea was suggested by Dr l1ddledorf of tresau 1ddledor5 instrument is nothing mora tha a long sharp needle The doctor thrust i between the fifth and sixth ribs so that the poInt enters the hear while hal its length protrudes beyond the skin I the heart moves in the smallest degree 1 will cause the needle to vibrate and f It is then evident that the patent lives CASE OF REANIMATION Some tme his trancelike stat may last for days There are cases In which men have been revived and recovered re-covered after having been unconscIous for six days and in one case at least a man who had ben twelve days under the snow was picked up and recovered within two months This case is reported re-ported in the Parisian Gazette des Hopitaux and the doctor who treated him was Felx Krajewski of Grube l2 chow in Russia Poland I is dlfcult to tel just how far the procesS of freezing may go before so cagIng the body that recovery Is im po5slble The brains of certain ant mils may be fr0en without fatal re sls In such case the anima loses I 1 I consciousness and is as it were placed in a state of artificial hibernation but the functions f organic lfe remain Ute same and when the animal recovers recov-ers i seems merely to have been asleep May physicians believe that the fatty mat < r in the outer portion of the cerebrum becomes solidified and thereby forms a barrier which prevents the ingress of cold to the remainder of the bran The same is thought to be true of the spinal cord but if the frost once solidifies the cord recovery is impossible S THE FATAL TEMPERATURE It is as uncertain at just what temperature fatal congelaton tae place in the human bOdy The average aver-age temperature in health is 986 degrees de-grees above zero A fall of two or tree degrees causes great discomfort and a drop of twenty degrees is considered consid-ered fatal although there Is one case on record where a man recovered after afer his temperature had been reduced to I seventyfve degrees above zero That temprrature of course was taken with the bulb of the thermometer under the I mans tongue and doubtless his ex I trrtles were icy at that time Death from excessive cold may occur In ever ways Slow and continuous chilling as explained before drives the blood inward and the victim is said sad to die of congestion of the bran But if the chi is great and sudden the blood rushes to the extremities leaving I the brain bloodless and the patent Is said to have died of cerebral anaemIa I a badly frozen man is suddenly reheated re-heated death follows from embolism That is to say the carbonic acid ga leaves the blood which immediatelY coagulates When a man dies of less severe frost bite it is usually from congestion I con-gestion but these conditions are caused by tiny blood clots which form In the te I frozen part and then pass elsewhere and stop the circulation A patent suffering from an ordinary I case of frost bIte should be placed in a cool room and the injured parts im t merced in ice d water or very gently rubbed with snow I iced water or snow cannot be had the very coldest water obtainable should be used changing it repeatedly until the circulation circu-lation and sensibility are restored I must be understood that the frost has sepaate the red coloring mater of the lood from the blood cells In that condition the blood is poisonous and I should it be quickly thawed it would produce mortification But if sent into I the circulation little by little it will be I absorbed without doing any Injury It is therefore very necessary that the I patent should not approach the lire I I and that the thawing process should 1 be very siow if both snow and iced water are available it is best to use the I snow frt and follow with the water I the case is at aU severe a doctor should be called If the caled I affected part however ca be rubbed with snow or I water until the return of feeling and can then at night be brought into a perspiration the injury will in most I < e have been entirely cured and no relapse need be feared |
