The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-25
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A man came to see me the other
day, and said that he had very use
full invention, which he would like to
describe to me SO that | could make a
notice of it in the paper.
~ want TO explain to you,' he said,
"a new process I have invented for the
manipulation of cadavers. It's the
most beautiful thing of the age. You
take m interest in medicine, | spose?
Well, you will BE- delighted with this.
You know the great trouble with Ca
davers is that the organs will collapse
Spose'n, for instance, l was to cut you
up. S'pose'n l Yves going to examine
your left lung. Why, before I'd got
half way down to it, it would be all
shrunk, all kinder shriveled up and shut
together, like that-jes like that felt hat
when you We been sitting on it,
Indeed was not aware
Eyes indeed? And it's the same way
with your other organs. If l was in
vestgating your stomach or your throat,
or ali of your ducts aud glands, they'd
all collapse and lose their rotundity
and fall IN kinder like an old sausage
skin, so that couldn't have any sat
istaction in dissecting you"
THAT would be disheartening."
"Dishearteuing! That's not the word.
1t sworse than that. It's awful rough on
the doctors and it impedes the progress
Of science. When | tackle you with
dissccting knife, for instance, l want
20 see just how you look inside; how
YOU look nOtc, when you are alive. |
wouldn't give cent to examine in you
when the walls of your inwards are
doubled up and curly"
Neither would l. 1t would be I'M
interesting. g.. ....
"Wcll, don't you see what we
want is to fix you up somehow so tins
cant happen; SOS when l souse into
you, your vitals'll look natural and per-
feet and properly distended. A col
lapsed corpse is Il nuisance; but ones
that's prepared right is worth noren
when it was alive.
"You surprise me-.
"Ycs sir. Well, now, I've discover
ed how to do this thing SOS it'll be
slip-shape and according to Gunthcr:
And the way [ do it is by the use of
what / call The Solid CONCEALED Pro-
cess" Don't understand it hey? Well,
it's simply splendid. 1t makes the
most fascinating cadayer you ever saw:
Perfectly lovely. | guess I've turned
out the most fascinating remains that
ever went on II college table, and the
doctors are just wild about it,
What's the peculiar method Of
Of"
"Wcn, spose, now, wanted to get
YOU ready for the sophomore class,
round here at the college. The first
thing I'd do would be to plunge you
into zinc box, part filled with certain
chemicals which ] keep secret. keep
YOU shut up there for four or five hours,
according as you're fat or lean, and
when take you out you're trozc-froze
hard, or kinder hard, just SOS you won't
be actually brittle. n brittle cadavcr Is
simply spoiled unless you can thaw him
out even all through, and that's difficult
~ should think So
"If you're properly iroze, you're ready
for business. And you'd be NStonIshcd
to find now convenient and valuable you
are. If | split you half, there ! hay"
all your organs just as they were in
life. If | split YOU down vertically you
prc,cnt beautiful spectacle. If l
make a diagonal cut, there's every
,biuu in the most delightful condition.
And all this time, mind You, you cut
inst rs easy us old cheese, little crumbly,
may be, hut still firm and not bit pull
py. -. Observation-Disclosures
dyes, ten chances to one | can take
Won and begin at Your shoulders and
Slice YOU down inch just like Bologna
sausage, and you all the time presenting
the most imposing views of your dla-
nhragm and such places, and preserving
y hard, shiny surface that makes 1t a
pleasure to keep the knife gong
tell YOU its grcat-its absolutely GREAT
that's what it is, and science, has got
bio thing of it. If you don't exactly
understand it, III
ooh. | understand it perfectly
"Brcause, If YOU don't, | was going to
say I'd ftccze subject and bring II
round in my buggy, and let you gouSe
it with Your pcnkuitc. Just to see. No!
non't want to? All right. But you
say something about it in the paper, won
YOU. and I'll solidify pig or chicken
for you SOS you can see for yourself Good