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! THE LIVE WIRE DID NOT KILL.A Workmau Reiuscltated After Sustaining * Shook of 4,500 Volt*.A few months ago a sensation was created by the assertion of D’Arson-val, the French expert on electrophysiology, that the electric current, as applied to condemned criminals for purposes of electrocution, did not kill but only suspended the vitality of the subject operated upon. He maintained that all those who had apparently been electrocuted had died, not from the effects of the current, but by the knives of the physicians who made the autopsy, and he dared the American physicians to try to resuscitate the next criminal who was subjected to the death-dealing current. The challenge was, according to the St Louis Glbbe-Democrat, discreetly ignored by the authorities interested in this country, but an instance of the restoration of a person apparently electrocuted has just occurred, which can only be taken in the light of aii absolute confirmation of M. d’Arsonval’s theory. In such cases M. d’Arsonval insists that the same treatment should be tried— with the object of inducing the lungs I to recommence their normal respiratory functions—as that for restoring the vitality of the apparently drowned. A workman at the St Denis generating Btation was putting up a telephone wire. While seated at his bracket he inadvertently touched a wire on the main transmission line and instantly had forty-five hundred volts through his body. It was some minutes before the current could be cut off, and it was three-quarters of an hour before he could be got down from the bracket. Artificial respiration was immediately tried. In two hours the man could talk, and he is now apparently none the worse for* the accident.
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The Joliet Republic and Sun
Joliet, Illinois, US
Fri, Sep 28, 1894
Page 7
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Yannick V.
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