Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-12-31
WHOLE NO. lo1.
THE LATE SHOCKING CASE OF Gaia
LEPSY AT. BALTIMORE.

dreadful fact of young adys having been burned
alive at Baltimore, but wthholds the names and the
facts sat the request of the friends of the young la
dy." Let us hope those friends will reverse their de-
csion. It lis horrible case indeed-yes such as has
happened before and may happen again, and these
friends should reflect that there others interres
ted besides themselves in this matter. 1t is impor-
tant that the public should be informed Of all the
facts in order that all possible warning and instruc-
ton may be gatherd from them, that the chances
of repetition of such disaster may be dimnished-
Sympathy towards others, good will towards the
neighbor should stimulate those friends to furnish all
the information in their power.
In the mean time, l enclose you an extract from
Dicksons Chrome Thermal System of Medicine, and
where the subject of Catalepsyis alluded to in man
ner which cannot fail to interest your readers.
VIM. TURNER, M. d.
5lS Broadway New York. -s
'SLREP.-Philosophers of all ages have made this
object of the most anxious study, its relation to
death, perhaps, being their chief inducement to do
SO. "Half our days. says Sir Thomas Browne. I'VE
pass in the shadow of the EARTH and sleep, the broth
er of death, extracteth third of our lives. In the
state of perfect sleep, the pupil of the eye will not
contract on the approach of ight-the skin has no
feeing-the ear no sense of hearing-the taste and
smell are be reused by any of the ordinary st
null. WHAT'S this (fguratvely speaking) but pc
riodic halfdeath-speaking truly, but not periodic
palsy or cessation of internal motion of the
by which maintain consciousness of existence,
and perceive relationship to the world around
usl Broken sleep consists either in brief remissons
of the whole sleeping state, or in wakefulness of
one or more of the five senses. There are certain
individuals, for example, who always sleep with
their eyes open, and who should see you, were
You to enter their chamber with the most noiseless
tread. These tell you they are always half awake.
In the condition of body termed nightmare, there is
consciousness of existence with wakefunoss of
the of sight or feeling; butwith total ina
bity to influence the voluntary muscles by any eff
fort of the will. The subject can neither sleep nor
turn himself. The dreamer, portions of whose brain
think, and therefore act move, is partially awake.
The somnambulist and sleep-talker are dreamers,
who having portions of the brain in state of action,
and others torpid, perform exploits of deed word,
that bring you mnd of the maniac and the drunkard
whose powers of Judging are defective. Aman may
be entirely awake, with the exception of single
member; and this still refer to torpid state of
some portion of the brain. Such man will tell you
his or leg is asleep or dead. But as this is a
sophoriic subject, and may have soporifc influence
on some of you, may as well wake you up with an
anecdote brother medical officer of the army once
told me of himself: While serving in the East Indies
Dr.. C-one night awoke, or should rather say
half awoke suddenly when his hand at the instant
came in contact with cold animal body. His fears
magnifyng this into cobra capel he called out most
Justify, ga snake, a snake % But before his drowsy
domestics had time to appear he found he had mista
ken his own sleeping arm for this most unwelcome
of Oriental intrudents
Gentlemen, the human body in health is never O.
sleep throughout, for when rolitiom is paralyzed-
when we everything but dead to all that connects
with the external world, the heart still continues
to beat the lungs perform their Office and the other
external organs which volition has no control
keep on their usual harmony of motion-n other
WORDS the digestion of food the circulation of the
blood and the other lesser motion of organic life,
proceed as in the waking state. The more impor-i
tant motions of the heart and lungs could not
for many minutes without endangerng the entire life
in the higher animals-though these organs in the
bat dormouse, and snake, appear to be inactive for
months. Nevertheless even in those animals, they
are not entirely so-as We can easily analogically
conceive The state termed fainting fit, it is true,
comprehends even in man, temporary palsy death
of the whole body but such state prolonged to
very brief period passes into death perpetual Cat
alepsy or trance being sleep of the organs in
ternal well external, though not of their atoms,
has great resemblance to death, as to have been
frequently mistaken for it. The subject of this con-
dtion of body, by something like the same nexplica-
bic power which enables the dormouse to hibernate,
may remain apparently dead for days and yet recover
More nexplcable STILL is the recovery to life of fish,
that for months travellers tell U.S. have been frozen
as hard as chip s-,sssss
lChrono-Therm system of Med. page 80,
A tailor, while travelling on the Lakes, was asked
by yankee, where he lived, what his name was, &c,
to which he replied, that he lived in Toledo, and
'that his profession was sitting on the smooth sds
OF poverty and jerking out the cords of affection"
| None are so fond of secrets as those who never
mean to keep them such persons covet secrets, as
spendtrt coyets money, for the purpose of crcula-
ton, SO
! Gov. Cass does not seem to figure the commit
tees at Washington. He holds secondary only
and then with Bill Allen for his leader, Surely this
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