Logan Republican | 1904-09-24 | Page 6 | Bleeding Stopped by Music

BLEEDING STOPPED BY MUSIC Surgeons Only Guess at Cause of Queer Phenomenon. Perhaps the strangest uso to which music can ho put is to stop the Mow of blood from a wound. An army doctor noticed that when a wounded boldlcr was taken to within an easy hearing distance of music hemorrhage was greatly reduced or stopped. Neither Nei-ther ho nor others, who confirmed his observations, could understand how this phenomenon was brought about, hut It Is now believed that the vibration vibra-tion of tho air piodttced by the music causes the patient to become faint. In which case the action of the heart Is so considerably lessened that tho overflow of blood Is reduced