Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-04
SUSPENDING ANIMATION.
Wonderful Tales an AntipOdean Con-
Temporary Tells It's Readers.

We gladly give publicity to discov-
cry that promises to reyolutionize all
previous theories of meat expectation.
If the narrator Of the following extraor-
binary facts is not to sanguine as to the
success of the marvellous experiments he
informs us he has witnessed, the squatter
who today is puzzling over the future
prospect of his surplus stock has oppor-
tunities before him that may be fairly be
termed golden. We venture no opinion
on the process, an account of which we
give in the writer's own words:
"Any Of your readers VINO know
Sydney Harbor will remember the long
inlet opposite the Heads known as
Middle Harbor. Here in perfect seclu-
sion, with careful avoidance of publicity,
is being conducted an experiment, the
success of which, now established beyond
any doubt, must have wider effect upon
the future prosperity of Australia than
any project ever contemplated. The
gentleman engaged in this enterprise are
Signor r tura, whose researches into the
botany and natural history of South
America have rendered his name eminent,
and Mr.. James Grant, a pupil Of the late
MIR, Nicolle, so long associated with Mr..
! Thomas Mort in his freezing process.
It appears five months ago Signor Re-
tura called upon Mr.. Grant to invoke
his assistance in scheme for the trans
mission of live stock to Europe. Signor
Rotura averred that he had discovered a
South American vegetable poison, allied
to the well-known aooorGra, that had the
power of perfectly suspending ANNA
ton, and that the trance thus produced
continued till the application of another
vegetable essence caused the blood to
resume its circulation and the heart its
functions. So perfect, moreover, was
this suspension of life that Signor Rotl-
"a had found in warm climate decom.
position set in at the extremities after
a week of this living death, and he
imagined if the body while in this in
ert state were reduced to tenn perature
sufficiently low to arrest decomposition
the trance might be kept up for months
possibly for years. He frankly owned
he had never tried this preserving
of the tissues by cold, and could not con
fidently speak as to its effects upon tn
after restoration Of the animal operated
on. Before he left Mr. Grant he turnet
that gen1leman's doubts into wonder
ing curiosity by experimenting OF
his dog. He injected two drops of thi
liquid mixed with littlo glycerine int
small puncture made in the dogs cal
: and in three or four minutes the ANNA
was perfectly rigid, the four leg
stretched backward, eyes. wide ope1
, pupils very much dilated, and exhibi,
ing symptoms very similar to those Q
death by strychnine, except that ther
bad been no previous struggle or pair
. Begging his owner to have no appre
tensions for the life of this favorit
animal, Signor Rotura lifted the do
carefully and placed him on shelf i
! the cupboard, where he begged he Nigh
be left till the following day. when b
promised to call ut ten o'clock and reviv
the apparently dead brute. Mr.. Graz
continually during that day and nigf
visited the cupboard, and so perfectl
: was life sus pended in his favorite-n
motion Of the pulse or heart giving an
: indication of the possibility Of reviva
t the frame being perfectly rigid-that /
u felt the sharpest reproaches of remor:
: at having sacrificed faithful friend to
9 doubtful experiment. The temperatul
/ of the body, toe, in the first four hour
Q gradually lowered to twenty five degree
e Fahrenheit below ordinary blood tenn
1t erature, which increased his tears as
e the result, and by morning the body WI
r as cold as in actual death. At ten o'cloc
e next morning, according to promis
Signor Rotura presented himself, an
1t laughing at Mr.. Grants fears, requests
Re tub of warm water to be brought. f
n tested this with the thermometer to min
4 ty-two degrees Fahrenheit, and in th
to laid the dog, head under. To Er. Gran
A objections, signor Rotura assured hi
of that, as animation must remain entire
ID suspended till the administration of t
% antidote, no water could be drawn in
at tho Innno and fhaf tho i'm m nrei