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Show OWES LIFE TO QUICK THOUGHT OF SURGEON Schenectady. N. Y.. May 22. After her heart had stopped beating and respiration had ceased, following an operation for tho removal of gall stones, Miss Anna Lobonsteln, a well-known well-known young woman of this city, is tonight alive and practically out of danger. Miss Loebonsteln owes her life to the quick thought and action of the operating surgeon, Dr. Charles G. McMullon. Dr. McMullen had successfully performed per-formed tho operation at a local hospital- adn had Just finished suturing the Incision in the abdomen when the attending nurse told him that the patient was pulseless. Hurriedly he removed the stitches ho had just taken and, inserting his hand, reached up to the stalled heart. He gently grasped the human life pump, his hand closing and.openlng gently. Tho auricle and ventricle, under the pressure, pres-sure, began forcing tho life blood Into tho arteries to have it returned an instant later. Tho prysiclan continued the manipulation, ma-nipulation, with nurses and internes bendlngN over the patient. For more than two minutee this was kept up, when suddenly a faint tinge wasno- , , ,,,,, i i. ''; y"ij-ji JfJrr"-!-1, 3iii tlced In the patient's face The doctor , continued the manipulation for per- i haps another minute and then withdrew with-drew his hand The heart of Its own accord took up its work of pumping, I and in less than five minutes tho pa- J tient was breathing properly. She was placed in bed and in an hour or j two was pronounced out of danger. ' Tho shock of the operation, together to-gether with unconscious physical antipathic an-tipathic anaesthetics, is believed to hae caused the heart to stop. The doctors administered to Miss Looben-steiu Looben-steiu before the operation a combination combina-tion of nitrous oxide, oxvgon and ether, as they feared the "effects of the nausea were ether givon alone. |