, 1879-03-15
SUSPENDlNG ANIMATION.

susPEND1Nu ANIMATION.
In the last Issue Of TIE TRrhuNE WIS print-
cd remarkable story Of the Buccoss of Signor
Koruna, scientific gontlotnHn Of Now South
WaloH, III suspending animation. It appears
That tho Signor has discovered subtle South
American vegetable essence TINT haa tllo
powor Of perfectly susponding animation,
and that tho trance continues until the ap-
plication Of another vegetable essence ro-
stores the circulation Of blood aud tho wheels
Of tho body 20 round ngain. In his frat c1-
pertinent, tho Signor was tronb'ed by tho Of
fects Of the warm climate, which caused de-
composition to set in. though Tho subject
was not dead, so that bis goods spoiled on
his hands. This was remodiod, however,
by reducing tho temperature Of tho body in
a freezing chamber 80 TINT tho subject 70.
malued In it's inanimAte condition very COM
fortab1y, and when 1t was waked up by
saturntion'into n wartn batl,, SO TINT tue tom.
perature was restored 10 blood heal. 1t was
not shocked by finding its extramities in
vigorous state Of decomposition.
There Ii nothing new In tho idea of Sieuor
RorunAs process, for Fri1r Laurence pro-
ducod tho sa1no offact upon juliet with his
distilled liquor, and 80 deceived tho headlong
Romeo with !" tho borrowed likeness Of shrunk
death " that the lattor suspended bis anirna-
tion altogether with tho powerful poiHon
procured from tho apothooary tin tatterod
woods and overwhelming brows" Friar
Laurenco's process alao had the advantage
over Signor RoTuaA's that tlio victim did
not have to bo frozen and then thawod ont,
juliet awoko hersolt MS from q PLEASANT
lcep." Nor Is It any secret that sliillful
operators hayo suspended animation in cor-
thin partB Of tho body by freezing thom
when thoy wish to perform operations upon
those parts. Some Of tue lower cold-blooded
animals, like frogs aud eels, freezo without
Tho slightest Inconvenience or danger to life.
There iano recorl, howavor, that any oporasor
has had tho courage to freeze tho whole
body Of wnrm'blooded auirnals. signor
Koruna himself Inns not yet e1rorimcntetl
upon human subject, probably becauao
there is no human being who oaros
to tako tho chances Of his poison
mud refrigeration. lie has confined him
eslf to cattle, sheep, dogs, chts, and hogs,
with whnt lie claimB to bo the most succcss-
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