The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-11-08
4 Triumph Of Science.

The Paris correspondent of the New
York World, writing under date oil
September %, describes a remarkable
experiment upon two Communists pris-
oners condemned to death. The con-
demned men were Dodu and Brun, and
the person wlio performed the expert.
ment i'll the presence of distinguished
French Swans was a German Profess
sDr from Wcisnicht, named Muller.
The correspondent writes:
"The prisoners were placed in one of
the dead-houses or dissecting- rooms,
on wooden tables: chlornform was adj
ministered; as both eagerly craved it,,
and they were bIed till the movements
of the heart were very family audible
to the ear placed over it on the chest
The solution of ca!x was then injected
into an artery in the arm, and the
mingled blood and solution was again
distracted until the heart ceased to
beat. Currents Of warm dry air were
then admitted into the room from the
furnaces designed for heating in winter,
the fires being kept in full blast for
many days. This was continued until
She body gradually shrivcled, the skin
becoming yellow like leather. 1t did
not crack or break when pinched up
but resumed its smoothness when the
pressure was removed. The eye-balls
became yellow and Opaque. One third
OF the original weight of the body was
lost in the case of Dodu, q little over
one third in the case of Brun. In this
state they remained at q moderate tenn
perature, the fires in the furnaces hav-
Ing been brought low, until the pre-
scrlbed three months had elapsed. Not
the slightest tendency to putrefaction
vas observed, owing to the preserva-
tive virtues of the calx. In presence
OF the Swans mentioned, and of GER
lam officials designated by the govern
ment, among whom were the keeper
OF the prison of La Roquette and the
project of police, the process of revivi-
cation was commenced. Blood was
drawn from the arms of two healthy
laborers in an adjoining room and in
locted into the old wound in the arm
OF Dodn. The artery was then tied
After the body had recovered its nat
ura flush, the gal,anic battery was
applied over the region of the heart,
bat after nearly a full hours
eXertion no life was manifested
More blood was injected; this time in
Il branch of the carotied artery, in the
neck, and the artery tied as before.
More powerful batteries were procured
and applied to the spine, over the heart
70 the nerves in the neck, but all with
ont the least sign of life other than the
filing out of the body and the flush of
the skin. The Swans present now fell
back on their digntied iucredulity, and
smiles and covert sarcasm greeted the
nudacious German. He explained his
failure By insisting that some internal
disease or maliormation had brought
The subject of experiment near to death
before the experiment was commenced,
and with true Garman pertinactv,
proceeded to operate on the body of
Drum. HE same process was employ
cd as with Dodu, and this time with
III umphant success. 1t was not found
necessary to open the artery in the
meek, but blood was injected abundant
" and repeatedly, the tube being left
III the artery Of the arm after each in
lectlon, but closed with a stop cock,
instead of the artery being tied up as
!" the previous case. First, tile eve
"'''S rolled III tier sockets under the
discharges of the gaIvanic battery
AFTER twitchimg OF the muscles, IN. =, M