Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-02-20

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-"solar plexus," as he called it,
And now came the trial, which
all awaited in breathless anxiety,
The Professor of anatomy took
charge of the jar of blood and
milk, and was to turn the stop
cocks to let it flow into the Jug
ular vein, and thence into the
heart as the Professor of physi-
ology was to empty the blood
clots from the heart with the as
ipirator Cor air pump at the same
time. Another student was to
initiate the lungs with the bellows
by a slow, easy motion, not more
rapidly than eighteen times a
minute. Another student was to
move a scape-valve on the bel
lows. Two other assistants stood
by the batteries to make the con-
nections at the word.
At the word, "Now," every
well-trained head and hand be-
gan work-all in harmony-and
quietly. No sound at first save
the slow Wheeling of the bellows
and the measured "thud, thud"
of the piston Of the air pump.
The clotted blood from the heart
poured into the receiver at first
like a brown jelly, which, after
few moments, was thinncr-at
last a stream of warm, thin blood.
It was noticed that the blood
mixture was plainly lowering.
The Professor of physiology
withdrew the aspirating needles,
and stood with dilated pupils and
flushed face. The chest of the
dead man was moving regularly.
He grasped the pulse and said,
in a whisper, "a tremori a trem-
or!' And then, applying his
ear to the chest moment, ,sprang
up and cried out in an excited
manner, "By Cd, it moves! I
can feel its impulse!" a shout
went up from every one, but fol-
lowed in a 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 III restoring
this man to life and suffering?"
The battery at the heart and abb
domcn were now disconnected
and all the semblance of life was
observed. Nearly two pints Of
the blood mixture had entered
the veins. This was now cut
off, 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 liy-
id, but rather pale. The eyelids
were half-closed, and eye-balls
rolling; the pupils were discov-
cred contracting and dilating ac-
cording as they were shaded or.
exposed to light. Some nitrate
of amyl was held to the valve of
the bellows, for breathing was
not through the mouth or nos
trils, and instantly the heart beat
more steadily, the face became
of better color, and the chest
jerked as if there was a desire
to cough. At this juncture the
Professor Of physiology said:
"GENTLEMEN:-Ou Our expert
ments thus far are successful.
This man IS liri'ag again, but
can have no thought, because the
mass Of brain is too nearly sew
cred from the cord. No act of
will, at least, can be performed.
The spinal cord is itself the mo-
tor centre of the body, and as
long as we keep up artificial
breathing the body will live"
He then proceeded to drill holes
as large as sewing needle into
various parts of the skull, and
touched the brain with the gal
yanic points, which caused the
legs to jerk, the hands to clench,
the eyes to roll, open and shut,
and the tongue to protrude.
The experiments concluded by
withdrawing the bellows and clo--
sing the opening in the windpipe
by adhesive plaster, and all were
by a sudden cough from
the dead man and a rolling Of /
the head, with moaning sounds
ike one exhausted by suffering.
This was followed by conyulsive
action in the limbs, a fixing of
the eyes and appearance of a
second death. The body became