Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-10
A MODERN MIRACLE.
The Extraordinary Revelation of a
New York Physician-TheD Dead
Brought Back to Life.
St Louis Globe Democrat.

Brought Back to Life.
st Louis Globe Democrat
NEW York, June 1S-Y esterday
your correspondent called DIR Clar.
ence Bigelow's attention TO an arti-
Gle printed recently in the city
newspapers descriptive of all Aus.
tralian discovery whereby cattle
can be frozen, laid away for weeks
and then brought back 10 life aud
genuine activity. The purpose OF
this discovery is to ship live meat
in ice boxes and then kill it on the
other side of the ocean after il has
thawed out again. In this way tho
cost of food and attention can be
dispensed with while at sea. Ia
cases of emergency a man trav cling
from California can buy first-class
ticket for himself and ship the rest
of his family including the mother.
in.law in patent refrigerators. At
the terminus of his journey he
could restore mis- chilren 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.
1T rs nothing said he, ITO the
grea. GROWING effort to medical
science that l witnessed a few
nights SINCE
Pray what was that p was
asked.
The Doctor reflected for few
moments and then he spoke as fol-
| lows:
when you publish what l am
about to tell you it will set the
whole country ringing. Accompa-
MED by my friends Judge Warren
and DR.. Chambers, l went last week
10 ono of the uptown hospitals,
whittier wo had been invited by DR..
Daremus and the house physicians.
On our arrival we were shown at
once to tho dissecting room. At the
foot of an ampitheatre was some
immovabIc object covered with a
white sheet. Most of the seats were
occupied by medical students from
Bellevue and Roosevelt hospitals
Mys II AMI party were assigned to
chairs on The platform. Shortly af-
ter eight o'clock the white sheet
was removed and | saw on the ta-
BILE the nude body of man. Pres
emily DIR. White stepped down By
tho table and said:
MY friends, the body before me
is that o. man who bled to death.
He was employed in a planning mill
on Yves. Sixteenth street near North
River He fell against one of the
swift revolving saws, one of the
large arteries in his arm was sever
ed and the blood, which is life, flow
cd out before assistance could ar.
/ rive.
The doctor paused, continued
DR.. Bigelow, for few moments,
moanwnilc looking attent vely at
the body. Then he continued:
There il mere cessation of life, be.
cause the blood was diverted from
it's natural channel | can discover
no Injury save the severed artery.
IL is absolutely necessary for the
success of the experiment we are
about to witness that the organs of
the body be uninjured for any ma
terial injury TO any organ--l mean
vital organ-oould preclude the
possibility of its performing its
functions, since science cannot re,
store tho organ. But where the &C
ton of the organ ia interrupted by
soma canse that does not material
~ injure tho organ, then L believe
that the organ may DO again COM
PEELED to perform its duty. As the
great wheel of mill may be stopp-
cd by shutting the water, so it may
be made to turn again by turning
the water Oh; thus the blood which
turns the wheels OF the body, having
been diverted, the wheels stopped, |
claim that this body may again be
brought to life, Whether the soul
has departed and can be brought
back, or whether the mind msy be
restored / cannot tell; but l believe
l can again set at work every ma
terial organ of this body, | have
carefully closed up the several ar.
| teries.'
He then called upon DR.. Dore-
mus. DR.. Chambers and myself to
assist him. An incision was made
in the body just ABOVE the heart
and the vena cava and great coron-
airy vein was bursted open. On the
left of the table stood two galvanic
batteries. A slight cut was made
just above the puxus of the four in.
ferior cervical nerves and another
| Just above the dorsal nerve. The
conducting wires of the respective
batteries were placed in connection
with these cuts, A smaller pair of
! OF bellows were inserted into the
into the mouth OF the corpse and
DR.. Chambers took charge of them.
DR.. Doremus was placed in charge
of the batteries.
At this moment attendants led
two full-grown, living sheep into
the room at . signal from DIR.
White and stood them near the ia.
bic. Meanwhile l had under 10.
struct;ons, connected two hollow
rubber strings TO the silver tubes
already mentioned. The other ends
were soon connected with the large
arteries of these two sheep. The
tubes throbbed as the warm blood
of the sheep bounded through them.
1t was q breathless moment and az
we leaned forward our interest was
psinfal. DIR. Chambers began to
work the bellows and the lungs oil
the body slowly responded. Three
or four inmates of tho most anxious
suspense ens1ed as DIR. White leant
over the body pale with excitement
No movement 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 selling some in.
strument DIR. White called out
Nov, Professor =
'ln an instant the powerful cur.
rent of tho two batteries was turned
on and with sudden Jerk the body