The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-15

MEhhi'h, lie lNDlANAPOLlS BUTCHER, ON
THE DIssEcTING--TABIE
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE CRIMINALS CAR
CAss-THE DEAD MAN MADE TO COUGH,
ROLL ITS EYES AND MOAN.
From the Indianapolis Herald.
The body of Merrick, the fendish wife
murderer, who was recently hanged in Indl-
anapolis passed into the hands of the fac
ulty, Of the Indianapolis Medical college.
What was done with it is detailed below.
The experiment made was most wonderful
and was attended by wonderful results.
The professor, addressing his class, said:
Gentlemen, this subject affords an op-
portunity Of showing how far vital action
may be suspended and again restored. All
this mans organs are perfect, but his vital
energy is lost. To restore it we must make
the heart beat again; the coagulated blood
must be removed from the hear. cavities:
and the lungs must be filled with air."
Taking up sharp knife, the professor
cut down upon the wind pipe from what is
known as Adams apple to the hollow over
the breast bone With a sharp steel hook
he raised the wind-pipe, split it open, and
inserted the nozzle of the bellows, making
it fast with silver wire around the pipe
This dene, the handles of the bellows were
put in charge OF an assistant while the
professor took up long, hollow needle, or
tube; half DIS large as an old fashioned
knitting-kneedle. To this he attached, on
a head at one end, rubber tube one quar-
ter of an inch in diameter and three feet
long. This was attached at the other end
to glass jar, or receiver, and the receiver
was attached to an air pump, which was to
be controlled by another assistant. The
professor next placed gallon jar, contain.
ing mixture of cenbrinated sleeps blood
and milk, in pale of water, all of which
had been heated to 100 deg. F. From the
jar (placed little above the table, about
five feet Distant ran rubber tube, one
quarter OF an inch in diameter, to the end
of which was short silver tube, with stop
cock attachment. The wires of the battery
were now uncoled, and very delicate, plati-
num- pointed needles were fixed. All this
apparatus being arranged and in the hands
OF the confident assistants, the professor,
who had been all the time talking quietly
OF the various instruments he was handling,
now placed delicate thermometer before
him and said;
NOW, gentlemen, we are ready. Let
every action be performed steadily and
quickly as | direct. now open the right
jugar vein, and permit what blood there is
in it to escape. You see by the flowing it
is not coagulated, and as thrust this Their
mometer into the vein it indicates that we
have the body at 9Sl5 degrees F., the
natural temperature of the human being in
health. | will now attach this small tube
in the vein, which, of course connects it
by this siphon tube with the jar of detbri-
mated warm sleeps blood and milk. |
keep the stop.cock closed for the present,
Next | will plunge this hollow needle,
which is attached to the air-pump, or
aspirator, into the ventriclcs of the heart
and when the air is exhausted into the re-
ceiver the clotted blood will be drawn out.
You know that needles, sharp, narrow
blades, and even arrows have pierced the
walls of the heart in living animals fire.
qnently, without producing death because
upon their withdrawal the contraction of
the muscular pores closes the opening.
Now this needle is in the right ventricle,
and (making another attachment by the
double tube) this is in the left. All is now
ready except our arrangement for stimu-
lating the nerves which preside over respi'
ration, the heart and general circulation.
These nerves are the pneumo-gastric and
great sympathetic, The former comes from
the base of the brain in certain spot; the
latter will require an opening into the
abdomen.
The professor then took a small diamond
drill, not larger than u horsc.hair, and per.
foratcd the skull at two points. an inch
apart, Mt the base Of the brain, into which
he thrust the two delicate platinum points
of the battery. At the moment these entered
several remarked that the chest had moved
Ms Il IN expiration. The bellows was de-
tatched, and, sure enough, a quantity of
hloody.looking troth and mucus was being
forced out Of the wind-pipe. This was all
drawn out with 4 syringe, and the profess
Aor proceeded Ia thu last arrangement of the
rol~ az tho smaller Bunson to the sym-
pathetic nerve--s tolot plexus," a. he called
n. And now cnmS ths tYhl, which all
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