The newspapers are commenting at length upon a reported case of Professor Tuffier in which it is said he restored a dead man to life by opening the thorax and manipulating the heart. The report is naturally more startling to the lay mind than to the medical reader, for we well know that until certain chemic changes take place in vital tissues, they are not absolutely and functionally dead beyond the possibility of resuscitation. Many physicians can recall cases of revival after apparent dissolution, by continued artificial respiration, injection of stimulants or saline solutions, or some other measure of the kind Professor Tuffier's case is, nevertheless, if correctly reported, a striking one, and may rank as a justifiable physiologic experiment on the human subject. That it means any actually important addition to our means of permanently saving human life, is not yet, by any means, demonstrated, but it is easy