[PW] "somaria exhaustion"?/thx

[AllenAmet at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/20/2008 4:52:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com writes:

The  following old newspaper article will better explain exactly how the 
people  of the past considered "somatic exhaustion" in relation to death 
and why  it might be listed as a cause of death. 

6 April 1889
Decatur Daily  Republican
Decatur, Illinois

Somatic death may be briefly described  as the failure of the main organs 
of the body, the brain, heart and lungs,  to perform their functions, while 
cellular death is where the cells or  tissues of the body die Both may 
occur at the same time, but the writer  urges, the former may take place 
without the latter, and often does, and  in all such cases there is a 
chance of resuscitating the dead person until  cellular death supervenes. 


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Much thanks, Sue. It looks as if John D.'s inspired reconstruction will  turn 
out to be correct.
 
  I am keeping after the cemetery there in Cleveland, and its  attendant 
archives, to try and locate the original handwritten version. We may  get lucky... 
if I obtain it, I will post the results.
 
  No wonder people back then were getting patents for a  bell-system attached 
to the coffin - in case the diagnosis was in error and the  person was being 
buried by mistake. All kinds of "exhaustion," I guess...
 
  Thanks again!
 
Allen
 



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