Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-29

Il DcElCu W UfDO0 ICA1k t@ttAtC AOA WV AulI
u.es within anhopr after their birth, and
again, this time fl ace of five min,
utes. The pup 4ot seem to be any
the worse for tt Iment, nor to have alb
sorbed much wassr. A slight difficulty In
regaining respiration was noticed, but thai
was all.
I The operation was repeated at intervals
| eight times during the first day, with nc
apparent injury to the puppies, and early
next morning the experiment was persever.
ed In. In few weeks dimensions were
given only three times day, On account ioi
the trouble attending it, but the three az
gregated an hour under water in every
twenty-four. Before proceeding with the
more important part of the disclosure, we
will state that two of thess puppies were
given away without mentioning the singu-
lar information concerning them, another
died of injuries received in being pinched
in doorway, while the fourth, fine ami
NAL, willingly submits to his immersion
daily, and bis master fatters himself that
next summer he will be possessed of dog
as much at home III the water as fish, to
repay him for the annoyance occasioned by
conducting his training through the sever
est winter known to recollection.
Stimulated by his apparent success with
the dogs, Schultz entertained a resolution
which will gain him the indignation of every
mother who may peruse this account.
About month after the birth of the pup
pies, Mrs. Shultz 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 convenient. The
child was, IL anything, small and delicate.
The exhausted mother was now sleeping ;
all attendants had gone, when Shultz, pale
and sgitated, ct two A. NJ. on the morning
of Sept. 20, proceeded to execute his unnat
ural resolution. Stealthily be took the babe
from the bed of the young mother, and in
an adjoining apartment rapidly undid the
work of dressing the infant, which had been
carefully accomplished but half an hour be-
fore.
Water, heated to about blood heat, was
placed in common tin pail; the reckless
father laid his open watch on the table in
front Of him, and without hesitation i'm
mersed his infant with his own hands for
the space of four minutes, keeping one hand
on the babes breast, so that the pulsations
of the heart could be felt. Shultz stated
that it was more than twenty seconds after
immersion before the blood found its way
again along its old channel, with bound
ing percussion which startled him with its
rvhifo n roiioxJod
pense. Feeling, then, the apparently nat
ural beating of the heart, he had no more
anxiety, but upon removing the babe from
its dreadful situation, it was ten seconds
before the lungs resumed their duties, and
the circulation proceeded in the natural
manner. The child cried feebly upon re-
gaining the use of his lungs, and voided
ABOUT teaspoonful of water. Shultz,
from his experience as surgeons assistant,
had no difficulty in dressing the infant,
which was speedily done after he had care
fully dried him with sponge, and he was
returned to the mother so adroitly that she
had no intimation of what had occurred.
During the ensuing day this thrilling ex-
pertinent was repeated no less than five
times, the father always seizing the oppor-
tunity when the child awoke crying to take
him into the other room for the ostensiule
purpose of wishing to look at and pacify
him, but in reality to renew his hazardous
experiment. Shultz here informed the
writer that although an eyewitness of the
most dreadful scenes of the Franco Ger
man war, aud on many occasions he had
been brought face to face with almost GER
tain death, he was on that occasion uumoved
as a stone compared with his agitation on
the occasion of bis first experiment with
his child. He felt his teeth trembling and
chattering in spite of bis own will; the
tension of bis senses was terribly strained;
the breathing Of his wife in another room
was distinctly heard at apparently IN
naturally long intervals; the twenty seconds
of suspense marked by his watch were
dragged lszily along, while the pu lsations
of the child's heart, when they did com.
mence, met with joyous throb Of response
from his own, as his anxiety was relieved,
and he felt his position no longer criminal
It was not until bis wife was able to leave
her bed thai Shultz found it necessary to
acquaint her with his proceedings, and he
then informed her as decately as he could,
assuring her there was no danger to the
child, but certain fortune for them if she
kept the matter secret. But poor Mrs.
Shul z could not understand it, and it is
not surprising that the shock occasioned
by this unheard of intelligence Frustrated
her again for nearly two weeks
In spite Of the severity of The winter,
Shultz never neglected the regular INNER
sion of his child five times day, for periods
of time ranging from 5 minutes to, on one
occasion, %. On this latter occasion con-
cradle masceration was observed, and i'm
mersion for so long time was not repeated.
The boy is golden, curly-haired, blue
eyed little fellow, and exhibits phys cal
powers uncommon In child of his age.
Though not yet six months old, his muscu-
lar development is astonishing. He can
already ego round by the chairs" and his
voice is powerful to a surprising degree.
His flesh is hard, white and shining, and
the writer was assured the infant was en-
tirely free FROM the peevishness and fretful-
ness common to children of that tender age.
A room is f ted up especially for him,
containing large bath tub, with a Their
mometer suspended in it, and the writer
was allowed to witness bis immersion.
The father stated that very often he would
voluntarily enter the water, but usually
they were obliged to resort to some com
pulolOA' uO UbOu was pIGpdIOu dIu bLlc
child undressed, when the father dropped
his knife INTO the bath and asked the child
to 60 and get it, at the same time placing
him upon the edge of the bath, with his
chubby little legs in the water. The child
plunged in at once, and appeared to have
much better control of his movements in
the water than out. he soon handed the
knife to his father, although the water va
fully three feet deep. Five or six white
loZenges we're then tossed in |
different parts Of the bath, in pursuit of
which the child eagerly went, and he was
fully three minutes under water endsavor-
ing TO secure them, as he dropped them |
again almost as fast as he picked them up.
Finally he turned up head first, and held |
out his fat little hands, filed with the can
dy, appealingly to be taken out. The wri- |
ter seconded his appeal, fully satisfied there |
was no humbug in regard to his amphibi- |
GUS faculties, and heaved sigh of relief as
the youngster was dried and again dressed |
like ordinary babies.
During this scene the dog before alluded |
to stood looking wlstfully from the bath to
bis masters eye, as though expecting TO be
allowed to join in the sport. The dog is
appropriately named Phoca, and Shultz con-
Lrives to keep him under water SIS long as
be thinks necessary by an ingenious ruse,
which vas also witnessed. A hole was
bored through the sole of an old carpet
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