The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-09
New Process OF nfu1 1n, mmnifacation.

himself w. NJ, dating from Florence,
Italy, June 90, sends an account of Prof.
Marini's wonderful invention how to pre-
serve or petrify human bodies, or meats of
any description, for restoring the mummi-
fled bodies or portions of the same to their
original volume, color and appearance
The professors labers bid fair not only to
advance science, to protect students of aua-
tony from its attendant dangers, but to-
alleviate human suffering. We feel no
doubt that the subject is one fraught with
interest for all classes and all countries
The fret specimen the professor showed
us was the foot of an Egyptian mummy, of
which the half remained in its mummified
condition; the other half was restored to
its normal color, form, dimensions and sup
pleness. Shutting the window and holding
candle behind the foot, you see the trans
parency of the soft and the shadows of the
hard substances. Hitherto it has been i'm
possible to eject the arteries with wax or
other substances used in anatomical studies,
on account of the salts which form in the
arteries themselves, preserved by systems
hitherto known; whereas by Marini's sys-
tenn corpse may be injected with the sub
stances necessary to facilitate "a perfect
study OF all the arteries, even after many
years of preservation. Considering the
number OF students who annually lose life
or limb In the act of dissecting, if Marini's
system shall denude the corpse of its venom
and present a harmless subject to the stu
dent, for this gain alone humanity will have
cause foT grutitude, According to some of
the most celebrated anatomists, this point is
already gained. Amongst his preparations
he possesses an arm detached in September,
lo4O. All the organs which enter into the
composition of this member-skin, tissue,
nerve, muscle, etc.-have preserved the
size color. consistency and sappleness of
fresh corpse not yet rigid. This arm may
be desicated to-day, and be used for an ana
tomlcal demonstration precisely rs it was
three years since in the Practical School of
Paris.
Nor is this process of Marini applicable
solely to partial fragments of the human
form, since he preserved for an entire year
in fresh state, the corpse of Professor
Martini, of Cagliari, previous to petrifying
it, and four months after death, dressed
it and had photograph taken so perfect
and expressive rs to delight all those to
whom Martini was known. In the expert
ments performed before the commission of
the Medical Academy of Florence, Marini
arrested the already commenced putrefac-
tlon OF the corpse of a four years child, re-
storing to 1T all the appearance of freshness,
which it still maintains, despite the intense
heat of last years summer. The brain, the
spinal marrow, the most delicate tissues of
pathological formation, are perfectly pre-
served with all their normal appearances,
and apparently forever A microscopic ex-
animation of all these preparations demon
strates that the elements Of the tissues have
suffered no variation of form or dimensions;
possibly one observes slight opacity, espe-
clally where albumenous matters abound
But there is no coagulation even of these
substances, no granulous appearance in the
con dents of the cellular elements or of their
deri7ations.
Marini has hitherto kept his secret with
jealous care, but he has already declared to
the commission of the Medical Academy of
Florence that he will reveal his secret to
them, and afterwards to the public, as soon
as they shall present their report on the ex-
periments of which they have been wit
nesses.
The lotion that Marni uses he has ap-
Piled to several patients afflicted with cancer
ulcer and similar diseases, and performed
wonderful cures. DR.. Bill certified that he
had applied the Marini liquid to one of his
own relations affected with cancer of the
tongue; that said cancer. which had proceed
and which, according to the first surgeons
could not be extirpated, had been arrested
by the application of Marini's liquid.
Other cases are still under cure. Two wo-
men affected with internal cancer are now
being treated by him in the hospital, and
but last week he was summoned to attend
the sister of the Syndie of Naples, on whom
his liquid has already produced the desired
effect: The surgeons, even those who ap-
ply his lotion, are not on good terms with
him, because he will not reveal the ingre-
dients of which it is composed. He iustifies
himself by saying that when he first applied
the lotion to cancer, especially to internal
cancer. it had the great defect of fostering.
rather than stopping hemorrhage; that for
this defect, he has found the remedy, and
that when he has brought his liquor to what