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.

lowing:
Yesterday your correspondent calle
DIR: Clarence Bigelow's attention to a
article printed recently in the city news
papers, descriptive of an Australian dis
cnvery whereby cattle can be frozen
laid away for weeks, and then brourll
back to life and genuine activity. Th
purposes Of this discovery Is TO shin liy,
meat in ice boxes. and kill it on th,
other 81 10 Of the ocean after it Is thawe,
out again. In this way the cost of foot
and attention can he dispensed viii
while at sea. In case of emergency {
man travelling from California can buy 4
first class ticket for himself, and shin Tho
rest OF the family, including the mother
in-law, in patent refrigerators. At tho
terminus of his journey no 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 docto,
what he thought about it.
ut is nothing" said he, "to the great
browning effort of medical science that !
witnessed 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 tho 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 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 we're assigned to chairs
on the platform. Shortly after 6 O'Clock
the white sheat Was removed and saw
on the table the nude body of 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
Mas 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. md the bleed, which is iife,
iiowed out before assistance could arrive.j
"The doctor paused" continued DIR.
Bigelow, "for 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 ccn
discover no injury save the severed, arte.
ry. 1t is absolutely necessary to the sue.
cess of the experiment we are about to
witness, that the organs Of tie body
be uniEjured, 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 the action of tho
organ is interrupted by some cause that
does not materially injure the organ, I be.
lieve the organ may be again compelled to
perform its duty. AS the great wheel of
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. / claim that this body may be
brought to life. Whether the soul has
departed and cannot bo brought back, or
whether the mind can be restored can
not tell; but believe can again set at
work every material organ of this body.
l have carefully closed up the several
arteries.'
"He then called upon Prof Dcrenus
and DIR. Chambers and myself to assist
him. An incision was made in the
body just above the heart, and the vena
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
pnxuh of the four inferior cervical nerves
and another above the first dorsal nerve.
The conducting wires or the four respec-
tive batteries were placed in connection
with these cuts. A small pair of bellows
was inserted in the mouth of the corpse
and Or. Chambers took charge of them.
prot. Doremus was placed in charge of
the batteries.
full-grown living sheep into the room. and
at signal from DIR. White, stood them
r,ear the table. Meanwhile had, under
instructions, connected two hollow rub.
ber strings to the silver .nbes already
mentioned. The other ends were soon
connected with large arteries of these two
sheep. The two tubes throbbed as the
warm blood Of tho sheep bounded
through them. 1t was q 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 sle@ly responded. Three or
four minutes Of the most anxious sus-
pensc 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, DIR. White called out:
now, professor T.
I'm an instant the powerful current oi
the two batteries were turned on, and
with q 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-
tinued! The pulse beat family The
| corpse was alivew
With each recurring sentence the doc
tor had frightened his grasp of my arm
lie leaned toward and fairly hissed out
the words: 'The corpse was alivep After
awhile he continued, with more modera-
| ton:
'The incision above the heart was well
closed up and the body carefully removed
to bed in an adjoining room. But the
work was not over. All night long we sat
in the room, all ofus from time to time
feeling the pulse of the now living man
and at times administering small guam.
titles OF stimulant, not only to him bnt