The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-17
A MAN WITHOUT A SOUL.
The Extraordinary Revelation of New
York Physician.


Yesterday your correspondent calle
DR.. Clarence Bigelow's attention to a
article printed recently in the city news
papers, descriptive of an Australian dis
covery whereby cattle can be frozen
laid away for weeks, and then brough
back to life and genuine activity. Th
purposes of this discovery is to ship liv,
meat in ice boxes. and kill it on tn,
other side of the ocean after it is thawet
out again. In this way the cost of foot
and attention can be dispensed will
while at sea. In case of emergency {
man travelling from California can buy 9
first class ticket for himself, and ship the
rest of the family, including the mother.
in-law, in patent refrigerators. At the
terminus of his journey he could restore
his children to their youthful vigor, and
his wife to her proper station at the
wash-tub or cook-stove.
Your correspondent asked the doctor
what he thought about it.
'It is nothing" said he, "to the great
crowning effort of medical science that
witnessed a few night since"
"Pray, what was that?" was asked.
The doctor reflected for few moments,
and then he spoke as follows:
"When you publish what I am about
to tell you it will set the whole country
ringing. Accompanied by my friends,
Judge Warren and DR.. Chambers, /
went last week to one of the uptown hos
pitals, whittier we had been invited by
Professor Doremus and the house physi-
clans. On our arrival we were shown at
once to the dissecting room. At the foot
of an amphitheatre of seats stood a long
table on which rested some immovable
object covered with sheet. Most of the
seats were occupied by medical students
from Bellevue and Roosevelt Hospitals.
Myself and party were assigned to chairs
on the platform. Shortly after s o'clock
the white sheat was removed and I saw
on the table the nude body of q man.
Presently. DR.. White stepped down by
the table and said:
"My friends, the body before me is
that of man who bled to death. He
was employed in planning mill on West
Sixteenth street, near North River. He
fell against one of the swift revolving
saws, one of the large arteries in his arm
was severed, and the blood, which is life,
flowed out before assistance could arrive"
"The doctor paused" continued DR..
Bigelow, "for a few moments, looking,
meanwhile, attentively at the body.
Then he continued: There is a mere
cessation of life, because the blood was
diverted from its natural channel. I can
discover no injury save the severed, arts-
ry. 1t is absolutely necessary to the sue
cess of the experiment we are about to
witness, that the organs of the body
be uninjured, for any material injury to
any organ-I mean vital organ-would
preclude the possibility of its performing
its functions, since science cannot restore
the organ. But where tho action of the
organ is interrupted by some cause that
does not materially iDjure the organ, I be-
lieve the organ may be again compelled to
perform its duty. AS the great wheel of
a mill may be stopped by shutting off the
water, SO may it be made to revolve
again by turning the water on, thus the
blood which turns the wheels of the body
having been diverted, the wheels stop
ped. 1 claim that this body may be
brought to life. Whether the soul has
departed and cannot be brought back, or
whether the mind can be restored can
not tell; but I believe I can again set at
work every material organ of this body.
/ have carefully closed up the several
arteries
"He then called upon Prof. Doremus
and DR.. Chambers and myself to assist
him. An incision was made in the
body just above the heart, and the yena
cava and great coronary vein were
burst open. In these openings were in
serted small silver tubes. On the left
of the table stood two galvanic batteries.
A slight cut was made just above the
puxus of the four inferior cervical nerves
and another above the first dorsal nerve.
The conducting wires of the four respec-
tive batteries were placed in connection
with these cuts. A small pair bellows
was inserted in the mouth of the corpse
and DR.. Chambers took charge of them.
Prof. Doremus was placed in charge of
the batteries.
"At this moment attendants led two
full-grown living sheep into the room, and
at signal from DR.. White, stood them
near the table. Meanwhile I had, under
instructions, connected two hollow rub
ber strings to the silver tubes already
mentioned. The other ends were soon
connected with large arteries of these two
sheep. The two tubes throbbed as the
warm blood of the sheep bounded
through them. 1t was breathless mo-
ment, and as We leaned forward our in
terest was painful. DR.. Chambers began
to work the bellows, and the lungs of
the body slowly responded. Three or
four minutes of the most anxious sus-
pense ensued, as Dr.. White lent over the
body, pale with excitement. No move
ment could be seen save the slow rising
and falling of the chest of the mans
body. Two minutes more and one OF the
sheep staggered and fell.
"Rising erect, and seizing some instru-
ments, DR.. White called out:
"'Now, professor!
"In an instant the powerful current ol
the two batteries were turned on, and
with a sudden jerk the body sat upright.
Quickly forcing it back, DR.. White, with
the assistance of some of the younger
men, withdrew the tubes from the veins
and closed up the small perforations.
The wires were disconnected and the bel.
lows removed. The respiration still con.
tinuedl The pulse beat family! The
corpse was alive"
With each recurring sentence the doc.
tor had frightened his grasp of my arm
He leaned toward and fairly hissed out
the words: "The corpse was alive" After
awhile he continued, with more modera.
ton:
"The incision above the heart was vel
closed up and the b )dy carefully removed
to a bed in an adjoining room. But the
work was not over. Ali night long we sal
in the room, all OF us from time to time
feeling the pulse of the now living man
and at times administering small guam
titles of stimulant, not on.y to him bn
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