GEER INHALES GAS AND MAY NOT LIVE

Mr. William H. Geer, director of the Department of Physical Education in the University was lying unconscious at a late hour last night in the Massachusetts General Hospital as a restrict of inhaling monoxide gas from the exhaust of his car at about 9 o'clock yesterday morning.

Mr. Geer's son going to the garage for his bicycle found him lying unconscious in a position which indicated that he had used to make his escape. He was removed to the Massachusetts General where the latest report last night declared him still unconscious. He was faced on the danger list.

It is believed that Mr. Geer was in the garage for fully 45' minutes after losing consciousness. The garage doors appeared to have been blown shut by the wind. When taken from his home near Belmont to the hospital, he had resumed breathing, but all attempts to restore him to consciousness were of no avail.

Dr. M. H. Bailey, Medical Advisor to the University, declared last night when questioned as to the nature of monoxide gas poisoning. "Monoxide poisoning is of a very dangerous nature. Frequently we hear of death resulting from persons inhaling carbon monoxide in the same manner in which, as I understand it, M. Geer was overcome.

Physiological, the presence of this gas in the system displaces the oxygen in the hemoglobin particles, producing a state which is very hard to cure.

"Mr. Geer's condition is undoubtedly serious, since he has been unconscious for so many hours. If he recovers, as it is hoped he will, recovery will be complete and he will feel no after-effects from the poisoning."