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[Description of Open chest cardiac massage from a British medical text]: "As one incises the skin and chest wall with the scalpel . . . "Absence of hemorrhage confirms the diagnosis of cardiac arrest." {Editor's Note: True, but this is a fine time to make this distinction!}

CLOQUET'S NEEDLE TEST: A clean needle is plunged into the biceps muscle; if life is not extinct, the needle oxidizes in 20-60 minutes.
Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary, 27th ed.Philadelphia; W.B. Saunders Co., 1988, p1521

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That which is always within our reach is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all."
--L.E. Landon,
British writer and poet