Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912), Saturday 6 October 1906, page 5
SQUEEZING THE HEART
When a patient collapses while under chloroform, and all other methods of restoration fail, heart manipulation is occasionally tried. A case in which this rhre operation was resorted to came before the fcouthwai-k Coroner recently. The patent a youth, exhibiting signs of heart failure during an operation at Guy's Hospital, an incision was made, and the heart was manipulated by the surgeon." Unfortunately, this failed to renew the heart's action A distinguished surgeon said to a Daily Mail representative:—"This manipulation i= a very last resort after the electric batterv artificial respiration have faOedTamt J, patie n £ Se,dora do ^ it Th^ * f ^ ^ ™™?rily successful, l^u ^ ? etl l ot L 18 to .divide the ff^ardium expos ^ t b , e -, W h e D , ^ su^eon mtroduces his hand he gently presse? the heart 1 ^ ( ? bont four time s a minute), ??" ^ s V! % <?™te ^ ^ fast last enough euougn to restart nulsa-' pulaa ort-1 J Possible to do so at all. An dectne battery has less directly something of the same effect It causes a contraction of the muscles of the chest, and the heart usually responds. Brandy injected into the tnssues is another stimulant and two or 1 three^ints of a saline solution, in the case P, r °* use loss °f blood b is often invaluabl '
The Professor's Experiment