The most astonishing change has taken place. Its
colour is almost natural now. Do I imagine it or is it real?"
Kennedy was so absorbed in his work that he made no reply at all.
He heard nothing, nothing save the slow, forced inspiration and
expiration of air as he deftly and quickly manipulated the
electrodes.
"Doctor," he cried at length, "tell me what is going on in that
heart."
The young surgeon bent his head and placed his ear on the cold
breast. As he raised his eyes and they chanced to rest on
Kennedy's hands, holding the electrodes dangling idly in the air,
I think I never saw a greater look of astonishment on a human
face. "It--is--almost--natural," he gasped.
"With great care and a milk diet for a few days Guerrero will
live," said Kennedy quietly. "It is natural."
"My God, man, but he was dead!" exclaimed the surgeon. "I know
it. His heart was stopped and his lungs collapsed."
"To all intents and purposes he was dead, dead as ever a man
was," replied Craig, "and would be now, if I hadn't happened to
think of this special induction-coil loaned to me by a doctor who
had studied deeply the process of electric resuscitation
developed by Professor Leduc of the Nantes Ecole de Medicin.
There is only one case I know of on record which compares with
this--a case of a girl resuscitated in Paris.
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