Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 39
Chapter Three—The Story of the Resurrection 39 to those in a school in Europe. In one of those letters you may read: “Since the doctor came here wonderful things are happening. First, he kills sick people; then he cures them; then he raises them to life again. ” What larger repu- tation could a wonder-worker desire?’ And the following extract ( Physical Culture and Health, 15th July, 1912), seems to show that even skilled physicians may be mistaken in pronouncing death to have taken place in certain cases: ‘Bringing the Dead to Life—A remarkable device has just been introduced by a German. It is styled the “pul- motor” and it has been successfully used on people pro- nounced dead by physicians, bringing them back to life, and what is more, in perfect health. A young man named Hass, asphyxiated by coal gas, whom his friends after three hours’ work failed to restore to consciousness, was given up as dead (p. 17). After three hours’ work with the pul- motor the man was able to sit up and express wonder and thanks declaring that he felt as well as before he was over- come. A doctor who was called in before the apparatus was employed, said that, speaking medically, Hass was in a state of death when he arrived. Hass is the fifth man who has been “called back”. ’ That the signs of death are sometimes simulated in the still living body and that delicate test necessary to ascer- tain the real fact, is manifest from the following passage from Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence (sixth edition, p. 243), this quotation is taken from ‘The Lancet’, vol. 1, 1900, under the heading Premature Burial :