Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-06-13
No. T..
More Discoveries.
ToRPoR OF THE HUMAN SYsrEm-A SLEEP
OF AGES.

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OF AGES.
An American travelling in Europe, wri,e~th,
following communication TO Tie Baton Rouge
Gageue. We give il as we find u, Tor the lo,-
ers of the wonderful
Professor Van Grusselhach, Of Stockholm.
has very lately brough, 10 a stale OF perist.tI.nl
The ari o producing lorpor IN the whole ,v>-
rem by the application of cold OF degrees ul IN
tensity, proceeding from lesser 10 grea'er,
SO cause the human body To become per-
teclly torpid. without permanent nllry 10 any
organ or Tissue of The frame In ,hls lhey NAV
remain one hundred or thousand years. anA
again, after sleep of ages, he awakened To ex-
istence, as fresh aud blooming as they were
when they first sunk inlo This fngorlic >Ium-
Der.
The attention of the learned Professor ws<
first led TO the subject by finding TOAD eu-
closed in solid fragment of calcareo,i> ruck,
ten feet in diameter, which, when taken n,n,
show ed unequlvocal signs of life--hul II is >u,,-
posed that the conclusion caused by blasting
the rock occasOned lis death IN few hours
after. The opinion of Baron Grulthizan. who
Is al present GeologIst to the King OF Sweden,
was that IL must have been IN that situation fpr
at least seven thousand years---aud his caicu-
latlons were drawn from The different layer, or
strata by which II was surrounded From this
hint The Professor proceeded to make expert
ments, and after painful and laborlous course
of experiments for The last twenly-nIne years
of his life, he al last succeeded IN perfecllng
the great discovery. Not less than sixty lhous-
and reptiles, she'll fish, &c. were experimental
on before he tried the human subject The
process is not laid entirely before the public as
yet, but | had the honor, in company with a
friend, of visiting the Professor.
shall give slight description Of one of the
outer ROOMS containing some of his prepara-
tions. Previous to entering we were furnished
with an Indian rubber bag 10 which was al
tached mask with glass eyes This was put
on TO prevent the temperature of the room from
being raised the slightest degree by oar breath
ing. Ii was a circular room lighted from the
top by the suns rays, from which the heat was
entirely disengased by its passage through
glass, &c, colored by the oxide of copper, n
late discovery and very valuable 10 The Profess
sor.) The room is shelved all round and con-
tains nearly one thousand specimens of animals.
One was Swedish girl, aged, from appearan-
ce, about l9 years-she was consigned to The
Professor by order Of the government to exper-
iment upon, having been guilty of numbering
her child. With the exception of slighI pale
ness, she appears as if asleep, although she
has been in state of complete torpor Tor two
years. He intends 10 resuscitate her in five
more years, and convince the world of the
soundness of his wonderful discovery The
Professor, 10 crafty US, took small snake out
of his oablne, into another room and although
it appeared TO US TO be perfectly dead and rigid
as marble, by The application of mixture of
cayenne pepper and brandy it showed immed-
ate signs OF life, and was apparently active
as ever it was. in a minute, although the Pro-
fessor assured Us il had been in state Of Tor.
por for six years.