The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-04-08
Fish. Frog, or Human = \ Baby that
Paddles Around Under water for
Twenty-Five Minutes.

From the Chicago Times Of yesterday
We obtain fuller account OF the novel
amphibious experiments made by DR.. (0
Louis Shulz, in that city, und briefly
mentioned in cur dispatches OF yesterday
This man Shuliz claims to have been an
assistant surgeon in Prussian regiment,
from which he was dismissed for making
an unfortunate blunder with the knilc,rc-
spltng in the death Of wounded soldier
He then went to work IN DcICum at ni-
trade, that Of a butcher, until he saved
money enough to emigrant to Chicago
where he was mlrricd, and with his faith
er-in-law resumed the butchcrirg bust
ness The Tines says
His ardor for Medicine seems to have
increased since his arrival here, and med.
ical works have been his especial delight
1t was pondering over his books which
led him to the course he has pursued and
which will stamp him either philosopher
or a feed in the judgment Of the public.
Shul,z had been studying German
work, and was particularly interested in
the analogy with which the circulation Of
the blood is kept up in members Of the
order Of amphbia, while under water, and
in the human fctus. Before birth, the
circulation Of the blood in the frtus is
carried on through the oval hole, between
the right and left auriclcs Of the heart,
and the arterial canal After birth, the
circulation is conducted entirely 10y tho
lungs through the pulmonary artery, and
the oval hole of the heart is gradually
closed through disuse. The vital luuc-
tions of the amphibia are almost identical
with the land animals, including the hu-
man species Their young are all born
on land, and the offspring of the seal,wa!-
rus, etc, would become as incapable of
remaining under water as human beings
were they not frequently forced By their
dams beneath the watery surface, and
thus the oval hole of the heart is constant
ly kept open by practice, until it becomes
one ot the permanent and necessary func
tions Of the body.
BY initiating the sagacious amphibia,
Shuliz was convinced that all land ami.
mails we're capable Of acquiring the same
faculty, and he resolved to test the mat.
ter. Opportunity soon offered. His dog
one of the setter breed, giving birth to
four puppies in August last, he immedi.
ateiy experimental upon them, llc i'm
merscd them in water heated by BLOOD
temperature for two minetes within au
hour after birth, and no unpleasant con
sequences resulting therefrom, in abou
an hour he immersed them again, thi
time for the space of five minutes. The
puppies did not seem any the worse to
the treatment, nor to have absorbed mucl
water. \ slight difficulty in regainiu,
respiration was noticed, but that was all
The operation was repeated at interval
eight times daring the first day, with II
apparent injury to the puppies, and earl
next morning the experiment was perse
vcred in. In few weeks immersion
were given only three times day, on ac
count Of the trouble attending them, bu
> the three aggregated an hour under wa
ter in every twenty-iour. Before pro
ceeding with the more important part G
the disclosure, we will state that two u
/, these puppies were given away witho,
mentioning the singular information cot
cerning taem, another died Of injuries r.
ceived in being pincbed in doorwa.
while the fourth, ine animal, wiling
2, submits to his immersion daily, and h
master natters himself that next SUNNI,
he will be possessed Of dog a. much
home in the water as fish, to repay hi
for the annoyance occasioned By conduc
4 ing his training through the seyere,t vi
ter known to recollection
Stimulated by his apparent succe
with the dogs, Shultz entertained res
? luton which will gain him the iuiign
tion Of every mother who may perusc II
account. About month after the bir
OF the puppies Mrs Shnltz became 4
mother OF malo child, previous to viii
y event the father had resolved, proyid
the child should be boy to hazard t
experiment with his own offspring.
y arranged his plaus in anticipation of II
event and one rainy, windy night io
Shultz, Jr, was ushered into TO wor
The midwife was dismissed as soon
convenient The child was, if anythi
small aud delicate. The exhausted mo
or was now sleeping all attendance h
gone, when Shutz, .le and agitated,
= A. NJ, on the morning Of September
proceeded to execute his unnatural re
ution. S,ealihily he took the babe fir
9. the bed Of the young mother, and in
adjoining apartment rapidly undid
work Of dressing the infant which |
ls.,, been carefully accomplished but half
ins lo,r lafnro