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

blood and milk, and was to turn the ston.
COCKS 10 let IT flow into the juglar vein. and
thence into the heart, as the professor of
physiology was to empty the blood clots
from the heart with the aspirator Tor air
pump at the same time. Another student
was to initiate the lungs with the bellows
ny slow, easy motion not more rapidly
than eighteen times q minute Another as
sistant was TO move scrape-valye on the
bellows-tube, so that when the lungs were
filled it might empty itself of bad air with
out blowing back into the bellows. Two
other assistants stood by the batteries to
make the connections at the word.
AT the word now" every well-trained
head and hand began to work-all in har-
mony-and quietly. No sound at first but
the slow Wheeling of the bellows and the
measured "thud, thud" of the piston
OF the air pump. The clotted blood from
the heart pourd into the receiver OF first
like brown jelly, which, after few mo-
ments, was thinner--at last a stream of thin
warm blood. 1t was noticed that the blood
mixture In the jar was perccptily lower
ing. The professor of physiology
withdrew the aspirating needles, and stood
with dilated pupils and flushed face The
chest of the dead man was moving regular
ly. He grasped the pulse and said, in a
Whisper "A tremor tremor!n And then
applying his ear to the chest for moment
sprang up and cried out in an excited
manner "By Cd, it movesl can feel
It's impulse" A shout went up from every
one, but followed in moment by deathly
Stiffness for the swollen eyes of the dead,
were seen to roll in their sockets, and
each one looked at the other as much as to
say "What have we done in restoring this
man to life and sutferingn The battery at
the heart and abdomant were now discon-
nected and nearly all the semblance of life
was observed. Nearly two pints of the
blood mixture had entered the veins. This
was now cut of, and artificial respiration
only kept up, The pulse could be counted
irregular, and over one hundred per minute.
The face OF the subject was no longer livid,
but rather pail. The eyelids were half
closed, and eye-balls rolling; the pupils
were discovered contracting and dlating
according as they were shaded or exposed
to light Some nitric of amyl was held to
the valve of the bellows, for breathing was
not through the mouth or nostrils and in
stantly the eeart beat more steadily, the face
became of better color, and the chest jerked
as If there was desire to cough. At this
junction the professor of physiology said:
Gentlemen, our experiments thus far are
successful. This man is living again, but
can have no thought, because the mass of
brain Is to nearly severed from the cord
No act of will, at least, can be performed
A spinal cord is itself the motor centre of
the body, and as long as we keep up arti-
fetal breathing the body will live"
He then proceeded to drill several holes
as large as sewing-needle in various
parts of the skull, and touch the brain with
the galvanic points, which caused the legs
, to jerk, the hands to clench, the eyes to
roll, open, shut, and the tongue to protrude.
, A full description of the anatomical points
, and physiological observations was careful
ly taken down, and will doubtless appear
in the medical periodicals.
The experiment concluded by withdraw
ing the bellows and closing the opening in
the windpipe by adhesive plaster and all
were startled by sudden cough from the
dead man and rolling of the head, with
, moaning sounds like one exhausted by suf-
, fering. This followed by convulsive action
in the limbs, afixing of the eyes and appear
ance of second death. The body became
cool in twenty minutes. The whole expert
ment lasted from II BOP. NJ. to 10 go A. NJ.
Thursday,o fifty minutes. The whole mat
ter was conducted with decorum and skill:
there was, in fact, little conversation, and
no levity. AS our reporter passed out of
the room he was shown barrel which con-
tanned the remains of Mr.. Merrick, just as
they were sent from the courtroom,
Justice is done for once. The man who
murdered is beside his victim--who knows
but twice killed-an has added his mis-
cradle body, unwittingly, to do some good
in the scientific world.
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