Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 217
Appendix to Sixth Edition (Taken from the Sunday Times , London, January 24, 1965) In 1955 Dr. J. G. Bourne, a senior anaesthetist of St. Thomas’s Hospital and Salisbury Hospital Group, began investigating cases of patients fainting under general anaesthesia in the dentist’s chair. This can cause death: a man kept upright in a faint loses blood-supply to the brain. Dr. Bourne published this original research in 1957. Later, turning over his discoveries in his mind, he began to relate certain aspects to the facts of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. The theory that resulted was somewhat startling, but Dr. Bourne, himself a man of strong Christian belief, feels that it could make Christianity more attractive to people una- ble to accept the supernatural explanation of the Resurrection. He quotes the Archbishop of Canterbury, who wrote on the Resurrection: ‘There is need for the most scientific approach to historical proof that is possible’. This is an abbreviated version of