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Show DEAD MAN-IS MAN-IS REVIVED Heart Had Stopped Beating Beat-ing Five Minutes; Almost Al-most Well Now. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 3. -In the recovery recov-ery of Peter Eidam, who Is now almost in condition to be discharged from the City hospital, the physicians of that institution in-stitution believe they have the first case on record where a person has lived and regained his strength after his "pulse had stopped beating for four or five minutes and two operating physicians had pronounced pro-nounced the patient dead. Eidam tried to commit suicide by shooting himself through the left side He was hurried to the hospital and operated ope-rated upon. The bullet had passed through his spleen and his veins were almost entirely bloodless. While the operation was In progress one of the phv-slclans phv-slclans suddenly exclaimed: "He 'is dead; his heart has stopped beating" The operating physician attempted to resuscitate the patient. Four hundred and fifty cubic centimeters of salt solution solu-tion were Injected Into Eldam's muscular tissue. The abdominal cavity was also washed out with salt solution. When between four and Ave minutes had passed without a heart beat being noticeable, there was a faint convulsion of Eldam's body. Since then, once -every three hours, twenty-four centimeters of salt solution have been injected. |