Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-06-03

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she is perfectly dead to, seem
ing perfect blank.
/" Tho last she remembers
was before her apparent death,
when lying in bed, AMI he in
teryening space IS TO her q
dreamless sleep. Had she re-
sided in one of our large cities
our modern undertaken would
have frozen her so stiff that re-
turning life would have been
a thing impossible
"The New York Herald, late
ly," continued DIR. Shertzer, "re-
ports a case of ofsmall-pox patient
who had to all appearances died
and was about being buried at
the cemetery when he groaned
and came to life again. Fortu-
nately for this patient, owing TO
the nature of his disease, he es-
capped the modern icebox.
81 personally know several
cases of suspended animation,'
where parties narrowly escaped
being buried alive or frozen.
Some months ago l called to see
child patient on South Cen
trail Avenue, of this city, and
was informed that it was dead.
| found that it had been washed
and laid out, awaiting the un-
dertaker and his ice-box. AT
ter careful examination / felt
convinced that it was a case of
suspended animation" had 1T
put in bed, surrounded with
bottles of hot water. In course
of an hour it revived and is liy-
ing to-day.
"At present / am attending a
young lady, who apparently
died, and while getting ready
TO lay her out washing her with
hot water1 she returned to life
and bids fair to live many years
yet. / remember when a boy
DR.. Abraham Hoff, of Hartford
county, died, and while the
minister was preaching his fu-
neral sermon the third day af-
ter his apparent death, he came
to, and l believe is still living
in the neighborhood Of Mill
Green, Hartford county. 1t is
useless TO say, the ice-box was :.
not in fashion in those days. /
remember two cases III hospital
practice during the war who
narrowly escaped being buried
alive.
"In a late report from Paris,
France, where some ten thou
sand dead bodies had been re-
moved from a burying-ground,
to give way to modern improve
ments, unmistakable evidence
was produced that one hundred
and ninety-seyen had been bur-
led alive.
"Dr. V. Vanderpoel, ~ West
Twenty sixth street, Newly York,
reports the case of a Brooklyn
patient, and the widow of a
well known doctor of divinity.
She had an attack of dysentery,
and had been lying i'll for four
or five days with low fever, but
her condition was not danger
Gus, although it was assuming a
typhoid form. lie called to see
her at / o'clock and returned at
5 the same day, when, 10 his
surprise and indignation, she
was lying in an ice-box down
stairs partially frozen.
"The undertaken had COM
mitted this atrocity without any
medical certificate of her death,
and he had no official knowl-
edge that she had died at all.
He found that after he had left
she arose from her bed and faint
ed while walking across the
floor, from sheer weakness and
because she lay there motionless,
the children thought she was
dead; so, instead of sending for
the doctor to make an examina-
ton, they ran for an undertaken.
He responded with like promp-
titnde, bringing in his mortuary
box full of pounded ice, and in
short time she was frozen stiff.
The doctor believes that she
might have revived had proper
means been employed for her
resustication.
II attended," said the same
gentleman, ''another patient in
Thirty-fourth street, in 1874.
She was a healthy lady, about
fifty years of age, and her house
was but five doors from my own.
She was perfectly we'll at six
o'clock in the evening. She went
to bed as usual. In the night
she was taken i'll and / was
called over to the house by an
other physician for consultation
at six o'clock in the morning.
After doing what we could /
left at seven TO finish my toilet
and get my breakfast. The 9TH
er doctor retired soon after
wards, as he found he could not
be of any immediate service
T returned at nine O'clock and