HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-05-03, Page 3How o Revive Life in Apparent Death
The old adage of the cat and its nine se the nervous• centres• controlling the.
Three is, sometimes- applicable to hse
Mans es well, A man l,5 not always
whene � at e
dead, and e s h to b so. There
are ' many factors which can bring then it makes no difference what Meth -
about so-called apparent death, The od is used; they canta,ot be brought in -
knowledge of these and the means of to action again and the victim is de -
Overcoming the temporary suspension finitely dead. The use of an excess of
of bodily function resulting thereby oxygen does po harm, as under normal
are of primary iniportanee, conditions arterial blood ie almost
Death takes place threueh c..essation completely saturated with oxygen any -
of the heart action, stopping ofrespire, way.—Scientific American.
tion, or through the suspension of cer-
tain vitalcentres in tlx central ner-
vows system. These three functions of World's Butter Champion.
the body, which are eseentlal to life, Another signal honor 'has come to
are so inter -connected la the body con- Canada in the line of dairying and ani'
piex that the functioning of any et mal husbandry. Not contented with
Ahem cannot be interrupted for any her previous very creditbale achieve -
geese length of time without serious re- ments, Canada .rias gone one better,
butte•. We can all stop breathing for and, surpassing her awn •record, pro
s certain length of time, and there has dined another world's champion cow,
' been known one ease at least of a man This ie Agassds Segis May Echo, own-
Who could voluntarily stop his' heart ed by the Dominion Experimental
beating for about 20 seoonds. Cessa- Farm, Agassiz, British Columbia, with
tion of the functioning of the nervous the remarkable production of 30,886
system centres even momentarily is pounds of milk and 1,673.pounds of
not known. butter in 365 days, making her the
champion butter cow of the world, any
Causes of Catallpsy. age and any breed. This animal's pro-
Tyhie causes which can produce ap- .duction of butter exceeded that of the
parent death are: Poisoning with such previotks champion, Bella Pontiac, of
oubstances as morphine, opium, veron- Brantford, Ontario, by 86 pounds of
al, belladonna, hydrocyanic acid, butter. Bella Pontiac's productiou was
Chloroform, etc.; the breathing of it 27,017 pounds of milk and 1,587 pounds
respirable•gases, such as chlorine, car- of butter.
bon dioxide, carbon monoxide, Memel- The new champion cow is .a five-
• toeing gas, and others; drowning, Shang year-old Holstein, bred in Ontario, of
fug, strangling, freezing, suffocation; great size, .:weighing close •to 1,800
shock by a strong electric current or pounds. Her best day's mills was 121.5
by lightning; loss of much blood; go- pounds; best seven days, 798.4 pounds
ing 'without food for a long time, per- milk and 36.65 pounds of butter; best
haps in conjunction with cold; violent thirty days milk 2,887 pounds and
spasms or fits as in epilepsy, overlong 139.95 pounds butter, She was milked
delivery at childbirth, known as blue throughout the tent four times a day,
and white apparent death; hysteria was never on pasture, and in spite of
• and catalepsy; cholera and other ex- the very large quantities of food con
haunting sickness; severe body strain. sumed proved the most profitable cow
The action of any one of these causes in the Experimental Farm herd. On
May produce death by interfering with the day this animal finished her test
the normal operation of the heart, she was producing 63 pounds of milk
lungs and nervous system. It is,. only per day.
necessary for one of theetrio to be an The achievement is a notable one
respiratory organs of the body are
still capable of being stimulated into'
i• e
action. If they have;lost tine pow r,
fected for apparent •death to occur, as
the connection between them in the
body is so intimate that when the nor-
mal operation of one is impaired or
stopped for even a short period of
time, the others are affected similarly
almost instantaneously.
• Revive Without Help.
There are, of course, certain victims
of apparent death who come to life
again without any external aid. Among
these may be mentioned principally
cases of apparent death caused by
poisoning with morphine, etc. How-
ever, in the great majority of cases.
help is required to prevent apparent
death from becoming absolute death.
What strikes the layman -first in a case
of >apparent death is! cessation of
breathing, and as it is not always pas -
tele that a skilled physician be pre-
sent at each case of such death, it is
important that all, laymenknow exact-
ly what to do on'such ioccasions.
Artificial respiration is most used at
the present time, as, the sovereign
method of combating the apparent
death which is caused by poisoning
with various narcotics and alkaloids,
by asphyxiation with gases, by drown-
ing, ,banging and also in 'the special
case of the new-born babe. The free-
ing of the confined air passages in the
lungs by the introduction of sharp
liquids, such as strong vinegar mixed
with finely powdered pepper and sting-
ing nettle seeds!, or through the blow-
ing of sharp materials, such as snuff,
into the nostrils, were common meth-
ods in times past.
Apparatus or None.
To -day there are numerous methods
of reviving apparently dead people, and
these are divided into two large class
es. The first class includes those
methods • in which artificial respiration
is induced by the aid of instruments
and apparatus., and the second class
includes those methods in which no ap-
paratus is used.
There are two different principles
whether instrumentsare used or not.
According to the first principle force
is applied externally to the thorax and
this is actuated in similar manner to
natural breathing. It is artificially dis-
tended so that air is sucked in, and
then squeezed together so as to expel
the air. The latter operation can be
performed automatically through the
elastic reaction in the lungs and thor-
ax.
Use of Pulmotor.
According to the second principle
breathing is induced by actuating the
lungs themselves. During the process,
of inhalation air or oxygen is forced
into the lungs, while in exhalation the
air or oxygen is sucked out of the
lungs by suction pumps, or through the
natural elastics reaction of the °beet
cavity.
The thorax method fills up the lunge
with air without directly. aotuating
them, while the second or lung meth-
od subjects the wane of the lungs and.
the thorax as well to active distension.
It is evident that the lung method is
directly the opposite of natural breath -
leg, and consequ0rthly It is unphysiolo-
gioal in nature: This brings up the
question whether the ase ot the pul-
motor is justified, whether the use of
this apparatus in, (arcing air into the
lungs and sucking it out again, by
mechanical means et harmful to the
su'bject,
From an examinsution of cases of ap-
parent death due to suffo.cietiore the es-
eential feature of which is the deprive-
tion of the body of sufficient oxygen to
perform Its natural fee:alon8, it ap-
pears that this !tion-pheelotogicai or
pulmotor method of aitiiiciai respiras
tion is not only unbermful but abso-
lutely lif'e-se,ving in its eaten, as !long
for Canada and especially for the Cana-
dian West. A new honor is added to
H.>N6V ark
His Specialty.
Bug—"That was a tight place you
were in the other day.",
• Worm—"Yes, but I managed to wrig-
gle out of it!''
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the already substantial aggregate won
by Western Canada. DIerely a few:.
years ago and this territory was ixn
porting butter and other dairy pro-
ducts from other wearies, and the
time since it 'first turned its attention
seriously to dairying is remarkably
short. The newest .of farming terra-
toriee has won the most coveted honor.
in the dairy universe against attempts
made by dairymen the world over, in-
' eluded among whom are many who
have spared no expense in endeavoring
to secure this distinction. It 18 another
tribute to the varied possibilities of
agriculture in the Canadian Western
provinces.
Horizontal Music Rolls.
Many rolls for player pianos have
been invented that move horizontally
instead ofvertically and on which the
music scores and words of songs are
printed so they can be easily read.
It's easier to do a thing right than
to explain why you did it wrong.
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Britannia's Honor.
Thank heaven for Old England! In
gold and blood and energy she put
most into the war. And now when it.
is all over, and the time of reckoning
has oome, she alone stands up to the
world's counter and promptly pays her
shot.
She Is not doing it without strain.
'She is burdening her people and men-
acing her industry with taxation. She
is playing policeman to the world. 'On
all corners, of the map at colossal cost,
she is striving for human liberties and
peace.
No creditor nation in all history
could have more justly asked better
terms,.
But Britain's word is her bond. She
borrowed, and she must pay. That is
all.
Again we can quote with pride those
splendid words of Walter Page: "It
isn't mere accident that such people
'got so far."—Ottawa Journal.
Stories About weU*Known People
Candid Criticism for Duke of York.
Lots of stories are being tole just
now about the Duk e of York, some of
Which are true, whileothers are—well,
mythical.
The following happens to be a true
one. In fact, although it is against
himself, H,R,H, has mare than once
related it to hie friends. ,.
While in training at the Royal Naval
College, situated at Osborne, in the
Isle of Wight, Prince Albert, as he was
then called, was overtaken DY a dense
fog while out riding alone, and com-
pletely lost his bearings.
After riding about for quite a while,
looking in vain for some familiar land-
nxark, he at length espied a rustic pit-
ting upona gate.
Turning his horse's head towards
him, he said, "My good man, is this the
way to Ryden"
The rustle surveyed him critically
for some moments, and then said:
"No, 't isn't, young fellow -me -lad,
Thee turns thee toes out too much."
Printer's Error Helps Make
Queen -Empress.
Lieut. --Col. Cecil E. Morgan, of St.
Catharines, Ont,, a veteran of many
ware and a raconteur of the first water
tells a story which is decidedly unique.
Col. Morgan, who is an ex -member
of the old Nortihwest Mounted Police,
relates that in the days of lids addles
eency there resided close by a. fatally
uamed Craven, whose daughter, Lilly
by name, literally had greatness thrust
upon her. Her father was a staunch
Conservative- and a great admirer of
the Prime Minister (Benjamin Dis-
raeli), who was meeting with no small
amount of opposition in his endeavors
to create Queen Vietoria, Allo res$ Of
Wise
The great argument . of the opp0s$'
tionn m do l
opposing the assn p n Of he
title was that there was no precedent)
for it, and one day during a discuseent
at Mr. Craven's table billy remar'ked1;
pWily. I thought the Queen was Emil;
rase of Wile.; it says so in my geog-,
raPhy."
The geography was at once pros
duced, and, sure enough, through !come
misprint or error, it was 'definitely
stated that her. Majesty was kimpresd
of India. Mr. Craven sent it to Diet
raeli, who triumphantly produced it tri
the House. "Why, even the children•
knew the Queen is Empress," he said.+.
He carried his point, the Queen be-
came empress, and Lilly got her book •
back with a letter of thanks on' the
flyleaf from the delighted premier,
Evergreen Memories.
Lady Frances Balfour is among
those who enjoy keeping the memory
of the late General Booth green (Mrs:
Asquith is another), and in her "Life
of the Founder of the Salvation Army"
she includes stories which destroy the.
idea of the General's perpetual .gravity.
He was oertainly a stern man on oce
Basions, but there was always plenty
of "light. relief,"
One day, says Lady Frances Balfour,
the General was addressing a. huge
audience. Presently one of the offi•
oers, fearing that the speaner's words
we're not being properly heard., started
closing all the windows in the hall.
He had closed about half of them wheat
the General stopped him.
"Don't suffocate them all," he re-
quested, "until the collection is taken."
Let Me Grow Lovely.
Let me grow lovely, growing old --
So many fine things do:
Laces, and ivory, and gold,
And silks need not be new;
And there is healing in old trees,
Old streets a glamor hold;
Why may not I (as well as these,
Grow lovely, growing old?
—Karla Wilson Baker.
Final Test.
Courtesy is the quality that keeps a
woman smiling when a departing guest
stands at an open screen and lets the
flies in.
New Decoy Duck.
For convenience in storingor carry-
ing tee head, anchor and anchor core.
of a new decoy duck can be packed in
'openings in its body.
Paper Pulp from Grass.
Argentina has opened a factory to'"`
make paper pulp from a species of
bog grass that grows prolifically.
Sell the Sewage.
The sewage of Dresden is strained
and the solid matter sold by the city;
to farmers for fertilizer.
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Speed Kings.
Snail—"Weil I declare, that minute
hand moves slower than I don"
Birds The Human Race Is
^ , Fighting For Its 'Life
By Charles P. Shoffner
Make no mistake about it—it is wax.
rhe human race Is fighting the insect:
world for control of the earth, and
every farmer knows that much of the
time mankind has the worst of it.
The insects wage eternal warfare on.
us, pitting their tiny size and incred-
ible numbers against our strength and
trained Intellects. They attack our
food, our shelter, our clothing, and are
all the more terrifying because they
do it blindly, instinctively, and without
the least animosity toward us.
Scientists believe that the human
race once inhabited only the tropics,
and that but for the bugs the majority i
of us would still be there. It is our
natural dwelling-place—otherwise why
-should not Nature have provided us
with feathers; or fur? Early man lived
under the warm sun, where necessities
were few, work !hardly necessary, and
Nature very kind. But the insects
drove us out, and keep us out; and not
content with that, they followed man
as he followed the retreat ,of the great
Ice Cap, and have never flagged' in
their ceaseless• war on our food, our
health, and our comfort.
A Losing Battle,
Worst of all, the bugs are slowly.
winning, and for a single reason.
That reason is, that stupid man, with
the unbelievable short-sightedness to
which he is so prone, has deliberately
attacked and destroyed .bus, chief ally,
the wild bird,
.A. French naturalist has estimated
that ifthe birds were all to disappear,
man could live on the earth only nine
years. For without the birds, all
plants and trees and vegetables would
disappear: the worm's and bugs would
eat them root and branch. When that
happened; the cattle and the sheep
would not have enough to eat and they
would all die. Mankind, unable to sur-
vive on fish, or on the insects them-
selves, would perish miserably in : a
horrible, crawling, creeping world,
The Number of. Insects.
The Yiiuiber of insect species, is,
greater by far that that of all other
living creatures combined.
More than 300,000 species have been
described and there are many thous-
ands of undescribed specimens, in
museums!. A small cherry tree, ten
feet in height, was found to be infested
with plant -lice, By careful computa—
tion Dr. Fitoh estimated there were
12,000,000 Iioe an this tree and it was
only one of a row similarly infested.
Apple trees are attacked by 176 dmt-
fereiit species of insect :pests, and 500
different species attach the oak tree:
A p'amlly of 60,000,000 in One Year,
Bisects are enormously productive.
If one pair of Colorado petato-beetles
were allowed to increase without tno•
leetation, in one season, where they
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breed there times, the progeny would
amount to more tban 60,000,000. The
late Dr. Litner said that in the study
of the hap -vine aphis, Professor Riley
observed thirteen generations in one
Year, If we assumed the average num-
ber ot young produced by each female.
to be 100, and that every individual •: at-
tained maturity (which, however,
neveroccurs in nature), the number
of the twelfth brood alone (mot count-
ing
ounting all of the preceding broods of the
same year) would be 10,000,000,000,-
000,000,000,000 ten sextillions) of in-
dividuals. Mr. A. H. Kirkland has
computed that the unrestricted in-
crease of the gipsy-moth would be so
great that the progeny of, one pair
would be numerous enough in eight
years to devour all the foliage in
North. America.
The Appetite of Insects.
Dr. Forbush states that many cater-
pillars• daily eat twice their weight of
leaves, and that a certain fiesiefeeding
larva will consume, . in twenty-four
hours, 200 times. its original weight.
There are vegetable -eating caterpillars
which, during their progress to ma-
turity, within thirty days, increase in
size 10,000 times!. Mr. Leopold Trouve-
lot, in an accurate study of the Ameri-
can silkworm, says• that a 'woren fifty-
six days old and weighing 207 grams
has consumed not less than 102 oak
leaves., weighing three-fourths of a
pound, and has drunk over halt • an
'ounce of water.
Nature Is .Closely Balanced.
Every thinking person must realize
thatthe natural world, as we see it
before man upsets it with his rough
and heedless fist, ie- the result of count-
less centuries of adjustment and re-
acting forces; Long ago it reached a
state of. balance, where every living
thing hes its means of support, ite ene-
mies, seeks and finds ite food, and is
in turn the prey and food of some
other of: Nature's cdnildren, Any arti-
ficial check or change in. the balance
might;easdly cost a century of trouble
before the slow processes of Nature
have made the necessary readjust-
ments.
Man has made many arbitrary
changes in the arrangements of Na-
ture, and generally to his sorrow, but
nowhere has. he shown such ignorance,
such greed, such brutality, and such
thoroughgoing, incredible stupid4ty as
M upsetting the perfect balance of bird
life.
Bugs Eat Crops—Birds Eat Bugs.
Our insectivorous, birds can devour
an ;incredible number of insects, and
their nestlings require more of this
food, in proportion to their weight, than
do the adult birds,Birds, digest their
food quickly. Professor Beal says:
"The stomacheof birds are often pack-
ed so hard and 'tight with food that it
Is a wonder how digestion can go on,
but it does' nevertheless." Charles
W, Nash in one day fed 165 cutworms
to a three -ounce young robin, and the
robin went to sleep hungry, F. H.
Mosher saw' a pair of rose -breasted
grosbeaks feed their nestlings 426
times, in eleven houre' time, and the
food could not be less than 848 larvae
or caterpillars'. Three young wrens,
reports Dr. Judd, were fed 110 times in
foue hours and thirty-seven minutes by
the mother bird alone. A pair of rock
wren's carried 32 locusts to their nest
in one hour, and 30 grasshoppers were
found in the stomach of a single eat
bird. ; -
Robins and Cherries.
.At this. point, if I were delivering a
lecture, instead of 'welting an article
to be printed, some one would be sure
to call out, "What about robins? We
calla get any •cherries on account of
the robins " Or sometimes it might
be ,."What about blackbirds? They
food scarce and tit abnormally
these accusations, are true. Robins ,do
eat Cherries; blackbirds and crows do
damage crops, But I beg that readers
of these• words will use their brains a
little, and not destroy the friends who
toll for them 98 per cent. of the time,
because of the damage they do in the
other 2 per cent.
Furthermore, that damage is mostly
avoidable. Robins. eat cherries be-
cause the wild fruit that was formerly
their food at cherry time has! been des-
troyed. If every Farmer would plant
enough Juneburry, chokeberry, and
soft early cherries!, with some early
sweet berries' that are allowed to be-
come dead ripe on the bushes, the
cherry trees! and strawberry patches
would be left alone.
As for blackbrids and corn, methods
for making the seed -corn unpalatable
to birds are well known, cheap, and
effective. Where these birds are ab-
normally abundant, making natural boll -weevil, 66; brown -tail moth, 31;
food scarce an dappetitss abnormally chestnut weevil, 64; clinch -bug, 24;
clover -rota borers, 85; clover weevil,
25; codling mloth, 36; cotton -worm, 41;
Cutworms!, 98; forest tent caterpillar
32; gipsy-math, 46; horseflies, 49; leaf.
Owls are great destroyers of mice, hoppers., 120; orchard tent caterpillar,
rats and other rodents,. In the atom- 43; potato -beetle, 25; rice -weevil, 21;
ach of a two -week-old horned owl, the seventeen-year locust, 38; twelve -spot
remains of five mice were found. In ted cucumber -beetle, 28; white grubs,
the retreat of a pair of barn owls, 3,000 67; and wireworms, 168.
skulls. of gophers and mice were found, In a book published only a few years
Hawks work during the day and the ago by the Canadian Department of
owls at night. Only the great horned the Interior, it came out flatfooted
owl is a regular poultry eater, and he with., this,: "Insects, weeds and ro-
dents hinder farming. But for bird%
farming would be impossible."
bird .monument commemorating how'
gulls saved the crops in the State of
Utah.
V. W. Jackson say's the birds, have
no doubt saved Manitoba from the de-
vastating army -worm, which, en sev-
eral raids, never got any farther than
the southwest corner of the province.
A few years ago, in Southern Sas-
katchewan, a farmer reported his crop
was badly infested. Before an official
could get there, word from the farmer,
arrived, saying the official's services
were not required, as the "gulls" had
cleaned them up."
Hardly an agricultural pest escapes
the attacks of birds., `The alfalfa wee-
vil has 45 different bird enemies; the
army worm., 43; billbugs, 67; cotton
keen, it means that some agency, prob-
ably stupid man, has reduced the na-
tural enemies of the blackbirds, ouch
as the large hawks.
is not common.
Owls swallow their food entire acid
later disgorge the indigestible portions
which consist of fur pellets and bones
of rodents.
An owl kept in a barn is. a better
mouser than a cat. Try. it and watch
results.
Birds Prevent Insect Plagues,
Plagues of locusts occur only in
treeless and birdless countries like
Egypt. The waterfowl of the Weeds-
sippi valley save it from the Rocky the right balance et Nature by using
mountain libelist. It is a well-known ,his power to kill in the wrong manner.
fact that blackbirds, plover, quails and j Let me repeat, this is not merely an
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Prairie Wakens. have .,aversl times amusing story. -Lam. not dealing in
rescued Nebraska from a plague of ' figures, of speech. The human race to
crickets. At Salt Lake City there is a 1 fighting for its food which is its life,
Man—the Only Exterminator.
It is almost universally ,believed;
that Pram the beginning of time man,
has been the greatest, natural enemy of
birds and ,exterm'inat'or of the various.
species. Man with his gun, trap, cat,!
and dog hasbeen directly or indirectly,.
responsible for the groat decrease he
bird life. Dilrectly by wanton killing
of birds and indirectly by destroying!
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_..-. �- _ The farrier knows this,
$1.46IT COU SLeS FbR NBW CANADIAN WIVES
. ' howu in the rou above taken during a Short practical
British • valves o soldtor settlers in Alberta are Veep
•ti Iowan, Alberta, recently, The course lasted three days. and practical dexnon-
course zn domesiic s:oienco at `t'Ve s ,
. tld a�ss•istthe settlers' wives in meeting the unfamiliar conditions in the Canadian
�stratlons ,were •given that would
West
In this ,ceaseless war with the ing
sects we 'can only win or bold our owit
by the help of our natural allies, the
wild birds. Sines we have crippled
these allied forces!, we are slowly los•
ing tate war, in spite of everything we
can do with poisons and. traps, Let
no reverse our policy toward these
teathered friends, for aux' own lives or
the lives of our children might de.
pend on their willingness• and ability'
to help. Let us treat them as. allies;
remembering that they meet be paid
like any other saddens, They aslt very;
tittle---onlyproteetion frets mankind,
instead of injury and demos Surely
there was never ,any ariny that fought
t so nighty a war ate sed eepl ,
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