The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15

Fourth H0ur.-BreathIng being estab-
lished. artificial respiration was disContin-
ued. Time between exhalati on and inhal-
alton of the breath, twenty seconds, though
growing more natural.
FVth Hour.-Slight pulse; breathing all
right; on forcing open the eyes, pupils
found very much dilaied, eyes not CLASSY.
.Serenth HauT.-Stili improving; pulse
regular, though very weak; eyes open and
shut them+elves.
Eighth Hour.-Stimulatio with brandy
discontinued, strong egg nog Of goats milk
being substituted: steady progression.
Ninth H0ur-A muttered attempt at
speech.
Tenth, EierentA qad Treifth Ho,rs.-No
change except that in the last half Of the
twelfth hour; Immediately before a light
slumber the patient called for his wife and
/ Eta, his child
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Holrs-Sound
slumber from which the patient awoke re-
fTeshed and began conversation in a weak
/ tone. Perfectly rational.
/ The battery was kept attached to Mr..
1saacs and the s,nulants continued,
/ though at longer intervals and larger
/ quantities. The most singular part OF this
truly strange story is the fact that al
/ though MIR. lsaacs recovered his intellect
with the renewal of his life vet his moral
faculties We're entirely dormant. When
his wife and child we're brot' to him he
evinced no emotion whatever and while
his memory recalled every inch of his
former life, and all of his acquaintances
say that his conversations and ideas were
more brilliant than ever before--yet it was
I m ms a n caH hat
was anght save indifferent TO him. When
informed Of his mothers death, Though he
had been the most devoted of sons) he
merely remarked: " ell, she was old
enough Heaven knows" Though formerly
very devout in his observance of religion
he had become most blaspbemous. He
would not tell the truth if possible TO lie
and seemed to take the most intense delight
to steal and secrete about his person any
object even of the most trivial value. He
made frequent attempts to rob the doctor
of his watch while bending over him &c
administer s'imnlants etc Dr. Reynault
St. Pierre, the highest Partisan authority or
insanity and matters relating to the psych.
ology and physiology of the brain, being
called in, said he could account for his
condition only by supposing that while hi!
r intellect had been resumed along with hi
new life. his soul had fed forever. HI
argues that were this case only of insani
ty the brain would not have increased il
e brilliancy nor would the memory hav,
t continued so perfect.
The blasphemies and obscene conduc
and conversation of Mr.. Isaacs having be
> come too horrible, it was determined Il
: discontinue the stimulus and disconnec
, the battery. This being done, the fata
sign of hicoughing began, and in thirt
minutes the animal heat and all sign oflif
had disappeared and death had resume
:, his sway. Immediately on his dissolution
: the eyes sank, the skin shriveled, a hide
Q GUS stencil pervaded the whole apartment
=, and the corpse had all the appearance c
u having been dead for weeks. Thus ende
e one of the most remarkable experiments O
n record
= DR.. d'Alembert says that prior TO th
Is experiment he has made several simils
l. ones on the bodies of cats and dogs, starve
r to death for the purpose of experimenting