An American scholar, George Poe, Edgar descendant of the famous writer, has devised an instrument for nothing less than to resurrect people.
The apparatus in question consists of two cylinders, one of which is empty, the other full of oxygen.
Both are equipped with a rubber tube that fits respectively to the nose and mouth of the presumed dead, and operator moves rhythmically, like a breath, two pistons positioned within the cylinders.
The cylinder piston vacuum removes harmful gases accumulated in the body, while the other sent to the lungs the oxygen it contains.
For this procedure have come to life in six minutes a rabbit killed by a heavy dose of morphine and ether, and a dog smothered with acetylene.
course is intended mainly to cases of suffocation, drowning and the like. The inventor has tested well with the drunks and it seems that with a few strokes of piston dissipates more drunkenness monumental.
La Vanguardia-Saturday June 6, 1908
to here the news Now a bit of history: Who was George Poe and as was his invention.
George Poe, Jr. (May 8, 1846 to February 3, 1914) was a pioneer of mechanical ventilation.
was the son of George Poe, Sr. (1808 -?) And Elizabeth Ross Ellicott (1810-1881). Around 1885 he married Margaret Amy Wallace (1854-1932) and had the following children: George III Poe, Mary Elizabeth Ellicott Poe (1874-1944) who married George Pender Hart (1862-1936), and Elizabeth Ellicott Poe (c1886 - c1948). was a cousin of Edgar Allan Poe.
mechanical ventilation
In medicine, mechanical ventilation is a mechanical method to assist or replace spontaneous breathing. You need a machine called a ventilator or breathing can be assisted by a doctor or other suitable person, with the help of a bag or a set of bellows.
is used primarily for victims of asphyxiation.
was also the first to make nitrous oxide.
nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide, commonly known as gas of happiness or laughing gas, is a chemical compound with the formula N 2 O. At room temperature, gas is a flammable, colorless, with a pleasant odor and a slightly sweet flavor. It is used in surgery and dentistry as an anesthetic and analgesic
Using the resources of the factory, Poe experimented with oxygen bottles and tubes and found that he could raise rats and rabbits that had been suffocated. In 1889, he undertook a national tour. He said his unit could revive human beings who had drowned or had been poisoned by gas lamps, and should be available in all hotels and guest houses to cope with gas poisoning.
Arturo Federico Ostrander, was an assistant scientist and inventor George Poe. Accompanied Poe, from mid 1907 to 1908 while still a child, showing how it worked on artificial breathing device.
In an article published in the New York Times, said: "The most interesting is not the device Prof. Poe, is the fact that only 10 years old boy, Arthur Ostrander, acting as the eyes and hands to the scientist, almost blind and semi-paralyzed in the construction of the device. "
In an article published in the New York Times, said: "The most interesting is not the device Prof. Poe, is the fact that only 10 years old boy, Arthur Ostrander, acting as the eyes and hands to the scientist, almost blind and semi-paralyzed in the construction of the device. "
In 1907 began a new tour, accompanied by Arthur Ostrander, and two doctors in Norfolk, Dr. Francis JP Morgan and Dr. Jackson .. Won in advertising in 1909, when a man named Moses Goodman was revived by the appliance. Once again, his health prevented him from doing much, and other inventors developed their own respirators.
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