Show reports 18 hour revival of life british medical body Is told of Ra rare case READING ENGLAND in a remarkable case reported to the brit ish medical medic a I 1 association by dr gordon L bohn a dead mans body really was revived and lived again but his brain was dead forever during a surgical operation the heart of a 72 year old patient gave out and he apparently died using the opening already made In into the body the surgeon tried the procedure usual under these circumstances reached into the chest and rhythmically squeezed the motionless heart A few ew irregular beats followed but did not continue and hope was abandoned merely as an experiment an assistant continued squeezing the heart rhythmically for or 29 more minutes meanwhile another assistant used the anesthetic apparatus to fill the dead mans lungs rhythmically with fresh oxygen the combination ev evidently provided the heart itself with oxygen after 29 minutes heart beats began again naturally some hours later natural breathing also began the dead mans body obviously had revived but tests showed that the 29 minutes without fresh oxygenated blood had killed forever all the higher centers of the brain consciousness never was restored only the lowest and most primitive reflexes such as breathing and the heart beat recovered eighteen hours after the operation the revived body died a second time |