Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-04-18
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A CHICAGO STORY.

mentS made by Dr. LOUIS SnultZ, Ill tnat
city. Shutz claims to have been an assist
ant surgeon in Prussian regiment, from
which he was dismissed for making an un-
fortunate blunder with the knife, resulting
In the death Of a wounded soldier. He
then went to work in Belgium at his trade,
that of butcher, until lie saved money
enough to cmigrate to Chicago, where he
was married, and with his father-in law re-
sumed the butcherlng business.
The Times says:
His ardor for medicine seems TO have in
creased since his arrival here, and medical
works have been his especial delight. 1t
was pondering over these which led him to
the course he has pursued and which will
stamp him either philosopher or a fend
in the judgment of the public.
Shultz 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 or
der of amphibia, while under water, and
in the human fctus. Before birth, the cir
culation of the blood in the ietus is carried
on through the oval hole, between the right
and left auricles of The heart, and the arte-
rial canal. After birth, tho circulation is
conducted entirely by the lungs through
the pulmonary artery, and the oval hole of
the heart is gradually closed, through dis
use. The vital functions of the amphibia
are almost identical with the land animals,
including the human species. Their young
are all born on land, and the offspring of
the seal, walrus, etc, would become as in
capable of remaining under water as hui
man beings, were they not frequently fore
cd by their dams beneath the watcry sur
face, aud thus the oval hole of the heart is
constantly kept open by practice, until it
becomes one OF the permanent and noces-
sary functions Of the body.
BY initiating the sagacious amphibia
Shultz was convinced that all land animals
were capable of acquiring the same faculty,
and he resolved to lest the matter. Oppor-
tuniiy soon offered. His dog, of the setter
bl l, giving birth TO four puppies in Au-
& last, he Immediately experimental
u them. lie immersed them in water
'.. d TO blood temperature for two min
within an hour after their birth, aud
pleasant consequences resulting there
a, in about an hour he immersed them
.sain, this time for the space OF tive min
utcs. The puppies did not seem to be any
the worse for the treatment, nor to have alb
sorbed much water. A slight difficulty in
regaining respiration was noticed, but that
was all.
The operation was repeated at intervals
eight times during the first day, with no
apparent injury to the prppies, and early
next morning The experiment was pcrse-
vered in. In few weeks immersions we're
given only three times a Cay, on account
of the trouble attending them, but The three
aggregated an hour under water in every
tweniy-four. Before proceeding with The
| more important part OF the disclosure, we
| will state that two of these puppies were
| given away without mentioning the singu-
| lar information concerning them, another
er died of injuries received in being pinch
cd in doorway, while the fourth, fine
animal, willingly submits to his INNER
sion daily, and his master flattcrs himself
that next summer he will be possessed of a
dog us much at home in the water as a fish,
to repay him for the annoyance occasioned
by conducting his training through the Sc
verest winter known to recollection.
Stimulated by his apparent success with
the dogs, Shultz entertained a resolution
which will gain the indignation of every
mother who may peruse this account
About month after the birth of the pup
pies Mrs. Shullz became the mother of q
male child, previous TO which event the
father had resolved, provided the child
should be boy, to hazard the experiment
with his own offspring. He arranged his
plans in anticipation of the event, and one
rainy, windy night Louis Shultz, Jr., was
ushered into the world. The midwife was
dismissed as soon as possible. The chile
was, if anything, small and delicate. Th'
exhausted mother was now sleeping; al
attendants were gone, when Shultz, pal'
and agitated, at A. NJ. on the morning o
September 20, proceeded to execute his un
natural resolution. Stealthiy he took th
babe from the bed of the young mother, anC
in an adjoining apartment rapidly undid th
work of dressing the infant which hat
been carefully accomplished but half al
hour before.
Water heated to about blood heat wa
placed in common tin pail the rockies
father laid open his watch on tho table il
front of him, and without hesitation i'm
mersed his infant with his own hands 70
the space of four minutes, keeping on
hand on the babes breast, so that the pul
satons of the heart could be felt Shut
stated that it was more than twenty sec
onds after immersion before the bloot
found its way again along its old channel
with bounding percussion which startle,
him with its power, while it relieved hi
anxious suspense. Feeling, then, the ap
parently natural beating of the heart, h
had no more anxiety, but upon removin
the babe from its dreadful situation il wa
ten seconds before the lungs resumed thei
duties and the circulation proceeded in tn
usual manner. The child cried feebly up
on reganing the use of his lungs, an
yoided about teaspooniul Of water. Shut.
from his experience as surgeons assistant
had no difficulty in dressing the infan
which was speedily done after ho had care
fully dried him with sponge, and was re
turn ed TO his mother so adroitly that sh
h9d 40 iniimation OF what had occurred.
Daring the ensuing day this thrilling on
: peri nent was repeated no less than fiy
, lines, the father always selzing the oppol
tunity when the child awoke crying to tax
him into the other room for the ostensib
{ purpose of wishing to look at and pacil
= him, but in reality, to renew his bazardor
experiment. Shultz here informed Il
r writer that although an eye witness of II
, most dreadful scenes OF the Franco Ge
= man war, and on many occasions, he ha
Q been brought face TO faco with almost ce
Q tain death, he was on that occasion, III