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ALBERT S. HYMAN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1930;46(4):553-568.

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No procedure in modern medicine has aroused more controversial thought than the attempt to revive the dead. Hailed on the one hand as a miracle of science and on the other as a useless and dangerous operation,¹ the intracardiac injection method of resuscitating the stopped heart has occupied a stage of excited debate.

The dramatic circumstances attending the revival of those supposedly dead readily lends itself to exploitation by both the lay and the medical press. The subject is naturally one of appealing interest, touching as it does on two fundamental concepts of philosophic thought—life and death.

The increasing use of epinephrine for intracardiac injection in emergency conditions arising in the operating room and in the physician's office has been attended with such inconstant results that many surgeons and physicians are at a loss in evaluating the efficacy of this procedure, individual experience having rendered them either enthusiastic advocates or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Director, Witkin Foundation for the Study and Prevention of Heart Disease, Beth David Hospital; NEW YORK

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Feb. 14, 1930.

Published by permission of Grant No. 21 from the Witkin Fund.

Report of the Special Committee on Intracardiac Therapy of the Witkin Foundation.

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