Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-11-09

down upon the floor. He was taken out
of the church and carried home. Every
body thought that all was over. Some
hours afterwards, the funeral bell tOlled,
and the usual preparations were made
for the inteTment. His eyesight was
gone; but if, like the young lady I men-
toned, he could see nothing, he could
nevertheless hear; and l need not say
that what reached his ears was not cal
culated to Teassure him. The doctor
came, examined him and pronounced
him dead; and afleT the usual inquiries
as to his age, the place of his birth, &C.,
gave permission for his interment next
morning. The venerable bishop, ,inwhOse
cathedral the young man was preach
ing when he was seized with fit, came
to his bedside to recite the De PrOfUndis.
The body was measured for the coffin.
Night came on, and you will easily feel
how ineXpresSible was the anguish of
the living being in such a situation. At
last, amid the voices murmuring around
him, he distinguished that Of one whom
he had known from infancy. That
voice produced Il marvellous effect, and
excited him to make a superhuman ef-
fort. Of what followed I need say no
more than that the seemingly dead man
olOOu LGAL uCty III LLAG II VII W AAACAA
he had been taken for dead. The young
priest, gentlemen, is the same man who
is now speaking before you, and who
more than forty years after that event,
implOreS those in authority not merely
to watch vigilantly over the careful exc
cution of tie legal prescriptions with
regard to inteTments, but to enact fresh
ones, in order to prevent the occurrences
of irreDarable miSfOrtuneS.'
n remarkable pamphlet, Lettre sur La
MOTte Apparente, Les Consequences
Reeles des InhUmatiOns pTebipitees, ct
lie Temps Pendent lequel peut persister
LAptitude q etTa Rappele a Ia Vie, by
the late regretted DR.. Charles LOnde,
records accidents which are more likely
than the preceding to occur in England.
Even were the bathing season not at
hand, deaths by drowning are always
apprehended. We therefore cite the
following.
On the 13 of July, 1929, about two
o'clock in the afternoon, near POnt des
Ars, Paris, q body which appeared life
less, was taken out of the river. 1t was
that of young man, twenty years of
age, dark compleXiOned and strongly
built. The corpse was discOlOred and
cold; the face and lips were swollen and
tinged with blue; a thick yellOwish frOth
eXUded from the mouth; the eyes were
open, fixed, and mOtiOnless; the limbs
Timber and dropping. No puLSGtjOB ofttG
heart nor trace Of respiration 1UdS pGTcep-
tbIe. The body had remained under
water for o considerable time; the search
after it, made in DR.. BOurgeOis's pres
ence, lasted fully twenty minutes.
That gentleman did not hesitate to in
cur the derisiOn of the lOOkers-On by pro-
ceeding to attempt the resurrection of
what, in their eyes, was a mere lump of
clay. Nevertheless, several hours after
wards the supposed corpse was restored
to life, thanks to the obstinate persever-
ance of the doctor, who, although strong
and enjoying robust health, was several
times on the point of losing courage, and
abandoning the patient in despair.
But what would have happened if DIR.
Bourgeois, instead of persistently re-
naming stopping over inanimate body,
with watchful eye and attentive ear, to
catch the first flutter of the heart, had
left the drowned man, after half-an-
hours fruitless endeaVOr, as often hap
pens ? The unfortunate young man
would have been laid in the grave, al
though capable Of restoration to life. To
this case, DIR. Bourgeois, in the Archives
uC 4nCNAGCluCf ctAiAAo OLllC1oJ Ii WAAANAA
viduals who had remained under water
as long as six hours were recalled to life
by efforts which a weaker conviction
than his own would have Tefrained from
making. These facts lead DR.. LOnde to
the conclusion that, GuGTy day drOCHcd
Individuals are buried lUltO lUjtb greater
perseverance might be restored to life.
Nor is stiffocatiOn by foul air and
n1nn1ItIPgI n form nf death
the United Kingdom. 1t is possible that
animation may now and then !
have been mistaken for the absolute eX-
tinctiOn of life. DR.. LOnde gives an in |
structive case to the purpose. At the |
of late grOcer's shop, q close |
narrow corner, or rather hole, was the |
place of the shOpman who man |
aged the night sale till the shop was |
closed, and fWhO opened the shutters |
at four i'll the morning. On the 10Th Of /
January, 1865, there were loud knock at |
the grOcers door. AS nobody stirred TO |
open it, the grocer rose himself, grum-
bling at the shOpman's laziness, and
proceeding to his sleeping-hOle to scOld
him, he found him mOtiOnleSs i'll bed
completely deprived of consciousness.
TerrOr-struck by the idea of sudden
death, he Immediately sent i'll search oil
a doctor, who suspected a case of asphy-
xia by mephitism. His suspicious were
by the sight of a night-lamp,
which had gone out although well sup
piled with oil and wick; and by pOrta-
ble stove containing the remains of
partly reduced to ashes. In
spite of a severe frost, he Immediately
had the patient taken into the open air
and kept on q chair in a position as
nearly verticle as possible. The limbs
Of the sufferer hung loose and dropping,
the pupils mOtiOnless, with no trace
either of breathing or pUlsatiOn of the
heart or arteries; in short, there were all
-he signs of death.
The most approved modes of restoring
were persisted in for q long
while, without success. At last, about
-hree i'll the afternoon, that is after
5LCUCjI hours continued eXeTtiOn, a slight
was heard in the region Of
,he heart. a few hours afterwards, the
patient opened his eyes, Tegained con-
and was able to converse with
,he spectators attracted by his TesUTreC-
ion. DR.. LOnde draws the same con-
illusions as before; namely, that persons
by mephitism, are not unfre-
luently buried, when they might be
javed. ;
We have had cholera in Great Britain,
md many have it again. At such try
ng times, if ever, hurried interments
ire not merely eXcusable, but almost
Nevertheless, one of the
of that fearful disease is to
,ring OH some of the symptoms of death,
he prOstratiOn, the cOldness, and the
lull livid hues, long before life has TAX
II its departure. Now, DR.. LOnde states,
S an acknowledged fact, that patients, l
dead of cholera, have been l
epeatedly seen to move one or more of |
heir limbs afterdeath. While NJ. Trach- I
Y (whO had been sent to Poland to {
tudy the cholera) was opening u sub
9ct i'll the deadhOuse of the Bagatelle a
Hospital i'll Warsaw, he saw another l
Ody (that of a woman of fifty, who had i
led in two days, having her eyes still i
right, her joints supple, but the whole o
urface extremely cOld), which visibly Il
moved its left foot ten or twelve times e
Il the course of an hour. Afterwards, v
he right foot participated in the same d
lovement but very feebly, NJ. Trachez t
cnt for Mr.. Searle, an English surgeon, Ii
D direct his attention to the phenO- n
lenon. Mr.. SeaTle had often remarked II
. The woman, nevertheless, was left {;
4 the dissecting-rOOm, and thence TAX Ii
II to the cemetery. Several other med y
al men stated that they had made G
imilar observations. From NJ. Trachez Ii
raws the inference: ut is allowable to
mink that many cholera patients have 81
cen buried alive n
DIR. Veyrat, attached to the Bath Es- 81
lblishment, AK, Savoy, was sent for q
, La Roche Department of the Nonnc), r.
, visit n cholera patient, Therese y, e,
ho had lost all the members of her Z,
.mily by the same disease. He found is
er in complete state of asphyXia. He ii
NaOad n vain. OOt a 1rOn of blCCI HO,,-- II