Show What Happens I to a Victim of Electrocution Science Here Gives an Answer to the Curious WHAT WHA HAT T happens in the body when a man is electrocuted electrocuted electro electro- How does an electric current snuff out the spark of life Can the victim be re revived revived revived re- re Questions like these come conic to mind whenever an electrical accident ent In the home or orIn orin orin in Industry Is reported or when a u criminal Is legally executed by elec The question can be answered but medical scientists are still working to find Ond a sure way of restoring restoring re re- re- re storing the victims of ot accidental electrocution Victims of or certain kinds of or electric electric electric elec elec- shock can be resuscitated The victim of an Intentional electrocution electrocution tion an executed criminal cannot possibly be restored restore to life Ute authorities authorities authorities author author- agree Nerve Centers Destroyed In the legal electrocution Important Important important tant nerve centers in the central nervous system are hopelessly destroyed destro destroyed de de- ed by the heat generated In Inthe Inthe inthe the electrocution A number of physicians physicians phy phy- have examined the bodies bodh d dot of ot criminals after such executions Dr A. A E E. E made 27 21 such examinations examinations ex ex- ex- ex and reported to the MedIcal Medical Med Med- ical society of or N New w Jersey that the temperature of the body rises and may reach 1295 1205 de degrees Fahren belt heit Normal body hody temperature is de degrees rees Fahrenheit Water bolls boils at degrees Fahrenheit The brain of or an nn electrocuted criminal criminal crim crim- inal shows hemorrhage e of the small blood lood vessels anemia of or the arteries and con congestion In the veins In some cases parts of th the brain and spinal cord are Inflated and look lookas as aR If It gas or air orr had been blown Into them The blood Itself can undergo electrolysis electrolysis electrolysis elec elec- he be broken up Into electrically electrically elec elec- charged Ions and consequently consequently consequently conse conse- Is decomposed Electrocution Most Humane Horrible as the details may sound i electrocution Is said to be beyond doubt the most humane method of I executing criminals There Is no pain consciousness is at once abolished abolished abol abol- I death Is certain when from i 7 to 10 amperes current at 1800 I Ito to 2000 vol volts potential are passed through the body What about the all too frequent accidental electrocutions the man who reaches from the bathtub In his ow own home to turn on an electrIc electric elec elec- heater and Is killed by the volt current of or his household lighting lightIng lighting light light- ing circuit or the lineman of ot the telephone company working on a wire carrying a minute current too low to shock him who may nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless never never- be fatally shocked If the current current current cur cur- rent Is stepped up by Induction from froma a transmission line Artificial respiration respiration res res- res- res Is the remedy |