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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goings-on that sounded like Frankensteinian attempts to raise the dead were recounted last week to the Massachusetts Medical Society. The narrator, Boston Medical Examiner William Joseph Brickley,* has for many years been trying to determine the precise time of legal death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is Death? | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Electrocution. One recent midnight, Dr. Brickley carted away the still warm body of an electrocuted convict from Boston's sooty Charlestown Prison. In Massachusetts General Hospital, half an hour after death was pronounced, the doctor tried to find some vestiges of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is Death? | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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