Professor W. W. Keen of Philadelphia has collected the records of the chief cases of resuscitation after apparent death (see _The Therapeutic Gazette_, April, 1904), and some of these are the following: Dr. Christian Igelstrud of Tromsö, Norway, in 1901, was operating upon a woman, 43 years of age, for cancer. During the operation, which was a coeliotomy, she collapsed and her heart ceased beating. After the usual means for resuscitation had been ineffectively tried, her heart was laid bare. Igelstrud took hold of the heart with his hand and made rhythmic pressure upon it. In about one minute the heart began to pulsate. The patient was discharged from the hospital five weeks afterward. Tuffier (_Bull, et mém. soc. de chir._, 1898, p. 937) in 1898 had a patient whose heart stopped after an operation for appendicitis. The surgeon had left the operating room, but he returned, laid bare the heart, pressed it rhythmically, and after two minutes it began to move again. The patient breathed regularly, his eyes opened, the dilated pupils contracted, and he turned his head. After the opening over the heart had been closed, however, he died. Prus (_Wiener klin. Woch._, no. 21, 1900, p. 486) by the same method started contractions of the heart after 15 minutes in a man that had hanged himself. The effort at resuscitation was made two hours after the suicide had been discovered, but the recovery did not go beyond imperfect movements of the heart, which gradually ceased. Maag (_Centralbl. f. Chir._, 1901, p. 20) reports the case of a man who under chloroform anaesthesia ceased breathing and whose heart stopped. After 10 minutes the patient was pulseless, without respiration, cyanotic, and cold. The heart was exposed and compressed rhythmically; it was restored to action, and he began to breathe. He remained alive for 12 hours, seemingly asleep; then he died. {166} Starling and Lane (_Lancet_, Nov. 22, 1902, p. 1397) were operating upon a man 65 years of age. The heart and respiration ceased. Lane put his hand into the abdominal incision and squeezed the heart through the diaphragm. After twelve minutes of artificial respiration the lungs and heart began to act. The patient afterward was discharged from the hospital cured.