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THE death, on November 7, is reported, in his seventieth year, of DR. SAMUEL JAMES MELTZER, head of the department of physiology and pharmacology in the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research. Dr. Meltzer is best known for his discovery, in 1912, of an improved method of artificial respiration by which he was able to resuscitate persons whose hearts had stopped beating. Three years later he announced a successful treatment for tetanus, which consisted in the injection of a prophylactic dose of serum into the wounded patient, combined with the injection of a solution of Epsom salts into the spinal membrane, which produced complete relaxation of the muscles long enough for the serum to take effect. Dr. Meltzer was a native of Russia, was educated at Königsberg and Berlin, and went to America in 1883. At the time of his death he was president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and of the Medical Brotherhood.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 446 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106446d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106446d0