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Excerpt from The Hospital Bulletin of the University of Maryland, Vol. 11: May 15, 1915 Now, a heart the muscle of which is damaged by acute or chronic diseases, age, etc., is naturally more susceptible to alteration as result of trauma, and therefore the better surgical risk of the young adult heart. While at this point it may be well to mention something of the difference in the gravity of a col lapse due to reex inhibition of the heart by an electric current and the inhibition that results from the passage of the current directly through the heart muscle. In that due to the former re suscitation may be accomplished by prompt rhythm pressure upon the thorax over the heart, which produces artificial circulation and respira tion; in that due to the latter, however, resuscita tion is impossible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.