DIED THREE TIMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3702, 11 December 1912, Page 5

DIED THREE TIMES.

WONDERFUL SURGERY

WOMAN’S REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE.

[INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE.] NEW YORK, Dec. 2.To die three times before her life was finally extinguished has been the experience of Mrs. Marie Care, of Columbus, Ohio. The woman was undergoing an operation for the removal of some tubercular glands, when she apparently expired. Oxygen was promptly' administered, and life was restored, but an hour later, just as the surgeons were completing the operation, the woman again ceased to breathe. So satisfied were the doctors this time that the patient had passed beyond all human aid that her husband and other relatives were summoned, and preparations were made for the removal of the body. As a last resort, however, one of the surgeons made an incision in the chest, and by means of a hypodermic syringe injected adrenalin into the heart. Although the heart had ceased to beat for 10 minutes, its action v/as resuscitated in 10 seconds, and respiration was restored within an hour and a half. - Mrs. Care then lived for five hours, at the end of'which time life finally became extinct. The doctors say that the direct injection into the patient’s heart was the first operation of the 'kind to Which a human being had been subjected.