Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-06-21
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.

Professor Van Grusselbach Of Stockholm,
has very lately brought TO state of perfec-
ton the art of producing a torpor in the
whole system by the application of cold Of
degrees of intensity, proceeding from les
ser TO greater, so as TO cause the human
body 20 become perfectly torpid, without
permanent INJURY to any organ or tissue Of
the frame. In this they remain one hun
dred or thousand years, and again, after
sleep of ages, be awakened to existence, as
fresh and blooming as they were when they
first sunk into this frigoric slumber. ~
The attention of the learned Professor
was first led to the subject by finding toad
enclosed in solid fragment of caleareous
rock, ten feet in diameter, which, when TAX
en- out, showed unequivocal signs of life
but 1t is supposed that the conclusion caus-
ed by blasting the rock occasioned its death
IN few hours after. The opinion of Bar
on Grnithlzen, who is at present Geologist
to the King of Sweden, was that it must
have been in that situation for at least sew
en- thousand years-and his calculations
were drawn from the different layers Of stra-
Ia by which it was surrounded r
From this hint the Professor proceeded to
"NN - pN''HSh'S, Hiu ditCI DdlIIul ana
laborlous course Of experiments for the last
twenty-nine years of his life, he at last sue.
ceeded in perlecting the great discovery
Not less than sixty thousand reptiles, shell
fish, &c. were experimental on before he
tried the human subject. The process is
not laid entirely before the public as vet,
but ! had the honor, in company with
friend, of visiting the Professor.
| shall give slight description of one of
the outer rooms containing some of his pre-
parations. Previous to entering we were
furnished with an Indian rubber bag. 10
which was attached mask with glass ewes.
This was put on to prevent the temperature
OF the room from being raised the slightest
degree by our breathing. 1t was a circular
room lighted from the top by the suns rays,
from which the heat was entirely disengag-
ed by its passage through glass, &c. color.
ed by the oxide of copper, "a late discovery
and very valuable to the Professor)
The room is shelyed all round and con.
tans nearly one thousand specimens of ami
mails. One was a Swedish girl, aged, from
appearance, about nineteen years-she was
consigned to the Professor by order of the
Government to experiment upon, having
been guilty of numbering her child With
the exception of slight paleness she APP
pears as if asleep, although she has been in
state of complete torpor for two years.
He intends TO resusctate her in five more
years, and convince the world of the sound
ness of his wonderful discovery.
The Professor, TO crafty us, took small
snake out of his cabinet into another room,
and although it appeared to us to be perfect
ly dead and rigid as marble, by application
OF mixture of Cayenne pepper and btsn-
dy, it showed immediate signs of life, and
was apparently as active as ever il was, in a
minute, although the Professor assured us il
has been in a state of torpor for six years.
-BGtOn Rouge Gazette, sea-
The above is an extract Of letter from
young American travelling in Europe.