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Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-19 | Page 8 | Brought Back to Life Three Minutes after Death

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Date 1908-08-19
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Brought Back to Life Three Minutes after Death
Type death
Date 1908-08-19
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 8
OCR Text BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE J THREE MINUTES AFTER DEATH NEW YORK, Aug. IS. Oscar Culver was dead for three minutes In the eastern district hospital, Brooklyn, yesterday. Then by means of,a powerful heart stimulant stimu-lant and artificial respiration to get his lungs Into play again, the doctors brought him back to life. His heart was beating, he was breathing late last night, but his hold on life was most precarious. Culver Is 29 yenrs old. He has been In bad health a long time but up lo four weeks ago worked in a rolling mill. His physician found that Culvert had consumption con-sumption complicated by rheumatism and. a fortnight ago had hlni removed to the hospital. Last night the nurse in the ward reported that Culver was dead. It happened luckily for Culver that Dr. Michael Jnffer, of the visiting staff was in the orflce. Dr. Jaffer, of course, believed be-lieved Culver was dead, but he said he wanted to see the body and try an experiment ex-periment He hurried to the ward where Culver lay, made some of thft tests for death. The pupils of Culver's eye did not respond to irritation. He was pulseless nt the wrist; his heart was not beating; he had ceased to breathe; to all appearances ho was as dead as a man could be. Still hurriedly tho doctor Injected under tho skin and over the heart of the seeming corpse one-tenth of, a grain of strychnia. Instantly, too. Dr. JafTcr performed artl-flclal artl-flclal respiration, trying to Inflate and empty Culver's lunss systematicaUB In natural breathing ""Vi.K Three minutes had pnsd anr. iB I Ryan had thought Culver died tB j sighed ever so faintly. All Iho'doctenS ! the hospital Instantly heard th asbH j lug news and hurried to his cot: t&nB I llevcd each other In keeping up anUB , respiration. Pretty soon Dr. JaffefH teniug Intently, heard Culver's htartftB I ter: then, feeling his radial artcrrH doctor detected a slow, wenk pul'e. PH ty soon Culver breathed less weiXlriB his heart beat more regularlv TtaH opened his eyes and stared 'fotedjr the world from which, by all th iH known to medical men, he had Q&H Culver lived through the nlghlbutuH recovered consciousness. Ha d!.4flB morning. " HL
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