The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-04-27

| dlslocated, the hair turned white and
torn out, and the features disturbed in
horrible manner. Fearful was the strug
gle of the man in his CHASTITY conflict for
life with every odds against him. A
young woman, also, beautiful in person
| and intellect, was buried in the usual
hurry, some ten years ago. The body
was afterward taken up for removal to
distant cemetery She, too, had been
engaged and worsted in her coffin in
terrible struggle for life. Her face was
gashed, her hands and arms frightfully
torn, her feet drawn up in wild endeav
| or to extricate herself from the horrible
| prison, her face furrowed and lacers ted
by the fngernails, SO desperate had been
the struggle. A young man, in another
city,wa thus buried, and his grave open
ed six days afterward. The body had
turned upon the face. and the arm was
bitten to the bone, and there were other
EVIDENCES OE THE. DEATH WRESTLING.
| We remember that the story was told,
several years ago. that Mr.. Lorenzo B.
Shepard, prominent lawyer of the city
of New York, who died in the appar-
emily full vigor Of life, actually recov-
iered after interment, and that the cloths
about his face were found to be satura-
ted with his blood. We know nothing
of the accuracy of the story. Bodies
have been removed from old to new bury
ing-grounds, several of them having
turned oyer in the coffin. Perhaps this
phenomenon is produced by the mechani-
cal force of the gases which are genera
ted by decomposition, but who knows?
| We have reflected much upon this sub
| ject. and not without much anxiety.
There is actually little protection for any
of US from this terrible peril. We ex-
haust our energies by overworks, excite
ment, too much fatigue of the brain, the
use of tobacco, sedatives and anesthe-
tics, and by habits and practices which
hasten the three sisters in the spinning
of the fatal thread. Apoplexy, palsy.
epilepsy, are likely to PROSTATE US at
any moment; and catalepsy, perhaps,
is not far from any one of US. This last
affection Is characterized by loss mere
or less complete of consciousness, with a
peculiar rigidity of the muscles, causing
the body and each part of it to retain the
position in which it may have bee at
the moment of attack, or in which it
may afterward be placed. It may at
| tack both sides of the body, one side
only, or single limb or organ Some
times it is preceded by signs of nervous
| disorder, and at other times it occurs
without sny previous warning symp-
| toms.
ANY STRANGE EMOTION,
any unusual or protracted intellectual
exertion, great physical exhaustion, I'M
satiaued sexual desire or excessive in
diligence, the retrocession of a cutan-
eous eruption-in short, anything that
debilltates the system will produce this
singular attack. OF course as with most
disorders, it is occasioned In males by
disorders of the digestive system, and in
females with disease of the womb. eau
ton should, therefore, be observed and
surfeiting, undue exposure to extreme
heat or cold, everlasting the brain, ex-
cessive bathing, mental excitement,
sexual alterations, the use of tobacco or
| anesthetics, unwholesome postures in
bed, &C., should be carefully avoided.
When a peculiar feeling of stupor is
perceived, the limbs ''fall asleep with
out apparent cause, or there is an I'M
easiness and rigidity of any of the mus
cles, with vertigo, lassitude, debility and
caprice of the mind, susceptible person
should be on the alert, tor there may be
no time to waste. There are incipient
symptoms of an attack. The signs of
TOTAL EXTINCTION OF LIFE
are not so unequivocal as many suppose.
Cessation of respiration and circulation
cannot afford positive evidence, for the
external senses are not sufficiently acute
to enable us to detect either respiration
or circulation in the smallest degree corr.
patlve with mere existence. Loss of
heat Is not conclusive; for life may con-
niue and recovery take place when no
perceptlble vital warmth exists. 1t is
customary in some places to cut or am
putate finges, relying on the flowing or
non-howing of Of the blood to reveal the
actual fact. Perhaps vesication would
be equally sure. Heat or an irritating
substance could be applied to the skin
the occurring of blister is evidence of
vitality. Fonbert proposed as a test to
cut into the intercostal spaces and feel
the heart with the finger Holding The
fingers before light is said to be sure
redness being apparent in the living
subject, but none in case of death. Gal
vanlsm has been supposed to furnish a
certain test. Irritiability is extinguish-
ed first In the left Eentricle, then in the
intestines and stomach, next in the blad-
de, afterward in the right ventricle,
then in the oesophagus, and after that
in the iris. The muscles of the trunk
hnaily give way, the extremities, and the
aurlcles. The collapsed edge of a wound
IN dead body in distinction from a
gashing wound in living one, is the re-
suit of peculiar irratability, the extinc-
ton of which is one of TIE surest indica-
tons of death. Flaccidity is certain
sign of death putrefaction Is uneouivo-
cal. Belladonna or the Calabar been ap-
piied to the eye, it is said, will sensibly
affect the iris ;f ,bo ,,. M