Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-01
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f:lil bnlIuiuu Bodies.

The New Hourk Courier gives the following
description of n process discovered by French
physician for preserving the bodies of the dead
1t appears to resemble the process of Gaunel,
which is now in extensive application III Paris:
"Two weeks ago to-day young Engiishman
died of hemorrhage in our city hospital, and was
immediately afterwards subjected to post mortem
| examination. ltwas afterwards thought to be de-
sirabe to preserve the body III at ii might be re-
| cJsniZcd and reclaimed by his English iriends.-
DR.. PLATE sent for. and although it was the
third day after death, and decomposition mad al
| ready commenced, and Notwithstanding the severe
Injuries inflicted upon the organization ofthe body
by the post mOrtcm, he undertook the case without
| hesitation.
| p,"We We're invited to8be present. and our deep
interest in discovery of . much Importance
obliged us to comply On entering the room, the
offensive odor of the corpse, the green hue of its
countcnance, and the dark color OF other portions
OF the body which denoted yet more advanced
stage ofdecomposition, and specially the view of
the extent to which the examining physicians lad
carried their cutting apprenticeship this, combined
with the extreme heat of the weather, completely
staggered our faith i'll the possibility OF the success
of the proposed attempt. Without heStation the
doctor, with an assistant, setabout his task. He
first took up the carotid arter! and injected it with
his antiseptic fluid, until b; discovered that its
continuity had been broken y the post-mortem.-
| He then applied ligaures so 10 retain the liquid
and afterwards proceeded mlp similar way with the
| fcmoral artery. He thus W Il from artery to ar
terry injecting and injecting aud applying ligatures
until no less than fifteen had been thus treated.-
Had the body been in its nall state the injection
| Of the carotid artery alone without any iigaturc,
would have been sufficient, and the whole opera
ton would have been completed Ill an hour,
whereas, in this case it requed nine hours of Sc
we're lahof The doctor hat not been engaged
more than two hours, beor, the odor we have
spoken of entirely disappea1e, from the rooms but
lNUp IL n nil l.
tons.
"On invitation, we yesterdy called TO examine
the condition of the body. STANCE as it may seem,
DIR. PLATE, we found had succeeded perfectly in
what had seemed to an alICst chilnericai UNI
dertaking. The body had resumed its natural hue,
was entirely nodorous, and ll appearance was as
if the breath had departed frba it an hour instead
of fortnight before. The aIiseptic process had
given the flesh sonewh hat haler consistency, but
had left no apparent trace W haever. Nature had
been literally preseryed-not,a has been done by
lother means of embament in aiisiigured or discol-
ored state, but so far the eyt could judge, it had
been preserved inviolate and il;act.''
The Present SYSTEM Q. FARMING.-ln
the editorial columns ofthe,Ne York Tribu.
ne, we find thetollowing practical paragraph
which we could wish was rad by every far
mer. ltsays:{ N.AtIg
.One with two hundred acres will say
pressed to do BETTER, Q j can't afford 10
drain and subsoil, and buy guano or phos-
pilates, and so put my Ian into the best
condition; haven't the me.ns.'-' But my
good sir! don't you understand that you
could turn gilmore produce from fifty acres,
thoroughly cultivated, thar yon do from
your wholetwo hundred?'- Well, perhaps
ht.'-Then why mott ell enough OF
your arabic land to pay forauttins the resi-
due in the highest condition Can't you rea-
lie that it is sheer, ruinous waste TO fence,
pillow, plant, till and haves five acres for
a hundred bushels ofIndian orn, when that
quantity might surely be. grown on two
acres? Can't you uderstant, that ten acres
of Grass that will yield twe,ty five tons of
good Hay, are more pro6tahc than growing
those same twenty five ton: on twenty-five
to thirty acres.'-'O yes, but-.'-'But
what?'-'O don't believeh white washing
forest trees. and laying stonewalls in morter.
Pm none of your gentlemeernfarmers-l have
to make my farm support n, instead ofmy
business supporting it.-All SO the hard
pressed culiivator slides off INTO fog of his
own raising, and persevere in averaging
twenty bushels or lesslthah ltun ofgrass 10
each arabic acre. mainly because he is mon
tally too sluggish and uneterprsing to
move Out, Of the jostrot way ofl,is grand
father. Jte ti5 alE ltt
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The ENGLISH LAseuAcEEOur language
is now spoken by seventy.ive millions of
people, and it is exceedingly copious-
Webster's Dictionary, the standard work,
| contains, over 10000 words Incur daily
life business, we use onlytbout one sixth