1956-08-21 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1956,

A

THE MAN WHO DROPPED DEAD

IS NOW BACK AT WORK

A FULL REPORT ON A CASE OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE

A

GE-YEAR-OLD man

who dropped clead

in the street Bus bem restored to Bfe

by matts machine.

of wa

electrical

He is now back at his work as a family ductor,

ease

which

by

CHAPMAN PINCHER

forward Cass of Audden to be given a chance to stari heart failure.

beating properly again.

electric

With the man stil in his street clothes the surgeon The full report. on this exposed the heart and be

1114 reached

to give il the other day shows that shocks. After the fifth far from being an isolated shock, given when the man fluke it is one of the must had been

30 exciting and

significant minutes, the heart began eventa in medical history

beating again.

COLLAPSE

THIS is what happened, The man collapsed with a heart attack while walking out of a hospital in Cleve Jund. U.S.

ante un

ile was rushed emergency operating room where Dr Claude Beek, an

eminent surgeon. trond to resuscitate him with art- ficial respiration and ingee tions.

There

WILM ぬく response.

coronary

The patient was declared in

be

from dead

thrombosis, the type of heart attack which is now killing so many men.

Beck then decided to try electric-shock machine which many hospitals now use for restoring the heart's action when it fails during heart operations.

tead

for

case

"IL Is comparable to M starting the pendulum 00 clock," says Dr Beck. "Trained resuscitation teams should take over whenever a patient dies from an Leute heart attack," Already since this doctors at another hospital *'}}}' of perspiration have used the shock machine appeared on the forehead of

to bring an successfully The patient as life WIM restored." Dr Beck and his in-patient back to life.

in their colleagues state cautiously worded report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

LOST MEMORY

NEXT morning the man

was muscious.

He soon

Need this treatment be

Alan

Medical Research Counell eclentists, Hext by Dr

have shown that some Parkes, creatures which nre Warm-

blooded, LS humans are, can even be frozen solid for many minutes and revived without mjury.

HOPE

FUTURE

THEY are confident

that by meuns of injections, for which they are now searching,

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from heart attacks at home or al work they might stave off fatal changes long enough for them to be taken mety miles to hospital in time for the electric- shock treatment to be given successfully.

the

man

This development iles In future. But now that has been restarod to life 30 minoles after dying from a heart attack, it is already clear that in the big towns at least many ambulance

cases which are "Dead on Arrival" may be "Alive on Deperture."

As Dr Beck puts it: "The] veil of mystery is being

It altould be possible to keep lifted from heart conditions animais in a state of suspended animation indefinitely.

and the dead are being

restricted to patients who suffer diately given to patients who die

If such Injections were imme- brought back to life.”

pitals" Not indefinitely.

heart attacks in or

near hos-

ira

**Whets death occurs on the golf course, in the office, or the home, resuscitation Cannol be done untess equipment and trained personnel are immediate- ly available, but these prob

began to talk. Ten days lens Dir not insurmountable," later he left hospital.

The only ill-effect be suffered from being dend for half u hair was complete luss ut 1714 ry covering the day be tore and the day on which he

lied

1

This case is of the greatest imoneriade signifieace because

that patients Tarcurs

who {Ter "fatal" heart attacks while in hospital, so many need not be Irrevocably dead

The shock treatment might be effective in up to nine out of every in cases of otherwise fatal heart attack, Dr Bet suggest in his report

Dr Reciters.

SHOCK RECOVERY

TAXPERIMENTS EXP

have shown

that the human body has

that

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WHAT IS THE REAL

A

ARTHUR

That

MILLER?

GAUNT, stooped, He atso hus, of course, a His ond grandfather looked He wrote radio scripts and

moral sense up from the corner of his news- grim-faced character, highly developed

cid hack writing for Holly- und a conscience which will not paper

with the wood. He disliked both occupa- and chuckled sternly moralising t him rest in a quiet, com-

dry wit of a race which had tions intensely and continued to like # twentieth fortable comer while his fellow teen driven across the earth in sweat away at serious work. far greater capacity to recover century Abraham Lincoln, man suffers.

Two thousand years of continua? His first play hit Broadway from shock and injury then had an intellectual whose mini

conscience has a good calamily and sald "You ought in 1040. It was called "The been believed.

drul to do with his subsequent to go to Russia, son,”

Man Who Had All the Luck;" some mysterious troubles with the House Com- moves in

Arthur very

nearly did it ran for six performances and thought

to the com- mittee Doctors du,

when region denied

Un-American Ac- to Ruesia, eventually.

cost its backera $35,000. the body temperature felt only mon man....

tivities.

Meanwhile, he sat down to

Miller changed his medium degrees, as I soon does

But it steme from the fat face his own problems. The and ground out a bitler, burn- when the body dies, changes That is the Arthur Miller that he grew up in a depression depression ultimately shattered ing novel called "FOCUM "

Не occurred

which could

not be of headline and caption, the which took

rich, mat the Miller business, 100, and he was about anti-Semitism. America reversed.

Miller Arthur

didn't like it; made him and dumped it upatde turned to and delivered rolls who is

the local baker before squirm Now they know that the avidly discussed in coffee down on a dung-heap.

his did hia

But break-

readers whole body

be severely houses, in

វរ kitchens and

fast while readers liked it-and

was the chilled with no lll-effects dia- lounges from San Fran-

ite was beginning of his reputation. result of coronary

being widely Lise to

still al high Those were the days when cisco to New York and from

school.

he WUS

Сот- flirting with usually only needs jeten the shock of operations.

New York to Paris.

After

munism, attending the Marxist That is, in a sense, too, the

1ook D folb 19 B

Study Group which the House real Arthur Miller: the headline bicycle

spare

Activities Com- parts clerk Un-American writers and the caption writers closed. He stood smugly on n in a motor car warehouse 10

mittee finds so utterly absorbing. have not distorted but con- street

And depression thut day

America, inlyone No doubt. even then, Miller They have distilled u watcher! densed

the hopeless and with job wu lucky, but should have known better. kinif

Essance of Arthur dejected crowd which had Miller gave his up to go to the

trials had Miller. But the essence is no

around the bolted University of Michigan, the man-any more than a glass doors of the neighbourhood

bank,

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ل الله

Was

I:

15-year-1

boy who Who had

Just drewn total

with

his

guikered

for

By Les Armour

savings ($12) to buy П that, he

the day the banks $15-a-wiek

corner

Ke lefi

If

Was a long jump from Brooklyn to Ann Arbor,

earn his living more

custly there.

of cointreau is an orange,

Miller the mun is also an easy-guing, easy-smiling flureitl That day the Incredible hap- Michigan. but he thought he being who likes nothing better pened.

his bicycle could than ไป spend week-end propped outside his house while taking his automobile engine to he went in for a slice of bread little bits and putting it back to and jam. When he came out gether again to his satisfaction. someone had stolen his bicycle,

He is a highly skilled plumber and a carpenter of some dis- Linction

His was a respectable neigh bourhood His father, Isadore He is thot ever-puzzling Miller, WAS

prosperous phenomenon the shy man who clothing manufacturer In that les people. A large part of neighborhood people didn't his massive intellectual armoury has been gathered together in ♫ never-ending attempt to understand his fellow man.

stad bicycles.

The University paid him $15

almost as much as

The Moscow purJE

Miller and Marilyn in England

But they have

come and gone; the Communists had, by then, laken a noble portant truths. cause in Spain and turned it confirmed the view that Miller

of is a violent "left-winger." shuddy shambles a treachery and brutality.

Into

a month to feed the laboratory BUT

mice. That paid for his room and books

DEPRESSION

He is not a Communist, has not been

one for many year He discovered a lot sooner than most people that Communism was an evil worse than those he was busy attacking.

A playwright who sets out to be social critic, like every- one else who makes it his

the depression was raging still. Roosevelt's New Wes lo have revived He washed dishes Deal in the University cafeteria fur capitalism and shown it hin meals.

The girls he took of meeting all comers. Instead, business to seek the creeks in

It had merely out paid for themselves,

shown the problem was too big for any One of the girls was Mary thing but a radical change in Gruce Slattery. Two years the economic system or a wor The trouble is that, In after his graudation in 1938 he married her.

Or, st least, they

didn't

She is the woman until the day the banks closed. he divorced a few months ago.

JAMES COOPER REPORTING THE U.S.A.

AMERICANS HAVE CHRISTMAS

DINNER EVERY SUNDAY

AM quite sure that existing

top the 12,000,000 mark. 4,000 technology supplemented by ILED

000 more thun in August last year.

The Increase Is que

to straighten out,

As Miller told the Committee: "*1 supported

things wouldn't support now."

600

the foundation of society, is bound to get a reputation for being a rebel.

America, rebels who aro successful in any sphere of life are taken extremely seriously. He was hauled before the Un- American Activities Commitice,

It was not surprising that he He was square with them. He should then have supported told them all about the or

ganisations to some wrong-headed theories,

which he had belonged He admitted that His first big break came in a the Gegislators in any play about A war profiteer democracy have a right to de- called "All My Song" produced mand information which may, In 1947. With the profits he in their view, have on im..

bought himself Q country portant bearing on legislation.

the

of

salesman

the

for

agreed

INDICTED

Ho

House

mansion and 20 acres in Con- necticut, and settled down to Briton's -- the

It seems that when the build- Brooklyn after they switched write "Death of a Salesman TURKEY

closed for the

"Death night on the lights in the house of

of & Salesman Christmas treat is ing way established as an everyday blower of the air-conditioning who always

semicone forgot to turn off the 80-year-old Miss Jane Davies, established him as one of the. He refused, however, to give the committee the names of used candles Ericat

to

playwrights

those who had belonged, with meal in the U.S.

unit, so that pressure mounted Save on electricity.

century.

him, to any organisation. Farmers announce that this and mounted,

Willie,

who held that he had no right to do nonth's sales of turkeys, will

lived on dream which he that, and that no duty devolved 2-A 40-year-old | ultimately couldn't maintain, upon to him to do what he bad man Was detained for was intended to be prototype no right to do. the experience of putting our questioning about seven fires of the American caught by the The Comtumlice indicted him to the satellites into space will make started In New York churches Great American Dream, Willie

contempt. Tho breeding of a smaller bird with possible Interplanetary have including St Patrick's had to be a mUCCESS, He had

with the Indictment. He a higher proportion of white within the next decade-Dr Cathedral-afier A policeman to imagine himself as a success. now facen a possible year in meat.

Donald H. Menzel, director of stopped him and asked him for his sons as successes,

prison and a $1,000 finc. These birds, weighing from Harvard Observatory.

a light. The man said he did He had to invent wilder and Meanwhile, he had become 3b, to 8lb., have proved

not smoke, but was found to wider mental versions of him- world news-by marrying familica with small

YNN LOESSER announces o populer

carrying

Д matches and

self

There was nothing wrong Marilyn Monroe, L she Uhat Americans eat on average

has separated from bottle of lighter fuld.

with the

real-life Willle have smiled wryly over the fact cong-writer husband sib, of turkey a year, compared after 20 years of marriage and Frank

excopt that the real Wille that a watching world found with less than 141⁄2lb, prewar.

wasn't a success. Ultimately, his marriago more important Mrs the dream was punctured, He And selling at 45 cents a lb., successful co-operation in the HAMPSTEAD - BORN

than as against one dollar for lamb lyrles for such hits as "Guys Winifred Walker, of New could no longer pretend, his Acres of newsprint have bee

Dalls" and

the latest York, has completed her seven- firm sacked himni, and; he com- devoted chope, and 89 cents for steak, and

to find out why' 'a It means "a Christmas dinner Broadway musical success "The year task of painting the 110 mitted suicide,

Most Happy Fella,"

shrubs, LTCCS,

plants, every Sunday in most homes.

and But sho adicis: "We

IMPLICATION. shall flowers mentioned in the Bible. WARNING: Tho American continue to work together in W Medical Association reports our cong-publishing business." She has painted them not a

cause

میں

ما

"en-DRESIDENT

t

hig

urt,

must

- major, playwright should want to marry a girl whose principal claims to tomo are hor measurements.

E Un-American · Activities All the explanations sound that although pills claimed

the translators described them Committee, no doubt, doesn't little silly. There doesn't seem ́EISENHOWER but as prevent minburn have

research has proved like that play. Its implication to be any explanation, and couraging aspects" they may has signed a bill to pay them to be, Thus the apple in is that there is something It just happens that he likes

chronic cramp. and $1,230 to Frank R. Davis as the Garden of Edens becomes wrong with the high-pressure the girl, prolonged coma,

damages for losing a contract an apricot, the Rose of Sharon way of life which makes the More important is the because his registered letter lay a tulip, and the Illes of the

American question: What happens to him an around

w? Will life in the glare of a post office for two Field aro, poppy anemonies,

Imeboy

than any now? Tolection zong with a tune days after it was posted The

other wheels in the world, movie publicity wrook Britons will re- post

Ten

It is an Un-American play... career? cognise. It is "The Democratie Wyoming.

It March," Bung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas"

that

Demperatu

even

chose

office:

:

Sleep. WAVE of Prohibiton senti-

iment will hit the U.B. by to make a 1965, predicts Dr. Andrew C. from Puccini's Ivy, of the University

ON MADWAY is

of

wheels of the economy

· Q

4 play which.. W the degenerate into Mr

a partial Marilyn Monroe 1117 truth.

distorted, Those who know him, best,

*V for dramatic effoot

aren't worried. So far tho

has said humantong plays, that ho

MERICA'S vaunted alt- opera, The Girl of the Golden Illinois, He says that caste Muler has gone on to write only thing that's happened - A conditioning caused a scare West, in which Camust ans creasing at the rate of 250,000 a notably The Crucible" a play and his 20 acres in Connecticut

of alcoholle addiction aro in others. Un-American Sti New York when the at its 1910) •première in tho

ધ windows and doors of a store Metropolitan Opera House, year-ant if the rate. Is kept about a witch-hunt. They have because Marilyn thought the began to bulge.. Police cleared

up there will be one or two not bead, perhapay, as great as house too big for comfort. the street as glass panels blew FOILED Three men were come in coch family at the and Death of Salement Now You can major of that what

arrested for burglary in of aide.

beve they spoken wuch | im- you will, POVESA HURUMIN