The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-09
RAISING THE DEAD.
Henry J. RedemIer brought Rack 10
Life-A Chastity Resurrection In n
Dissecting Room - Gslvanizing
Corpse with Forty.CeI
Battery
I. Louis Post. Dispatch

I. Louis Post. Dispatch
"Come out at ten o'clock this evening""
said DR.. Falkland to Post.Dispa,ch re-
porter, ''if you would like to see some singu-
lar experiments in electricity and supposing
of course that the experiments referred TO
would be upon the dead body of Redemeier,
which was lying upon the dissectng-table
between the nterocutors. the reporter gladly
promised to be on band. When the APP
pointed hour arrived he was true to the tryst
aad met Dr.. Falkland and two other medical
gentlemen, Doctors Willard and Reber, on
the corner Of Eleventh and North Market
streets, and. after few minutes wait for
another conference.-the, however, did not
appear--the party hastily mounted The col
lege steps AMI passed up to the dissecting-
room nj the top of the building. This is
burr larry in the interest of science" said DR..
Falkland. wonder Whit Dr. Bauer would
say it he knew we were going 10 tamper with
his treasure However, he won't know any
thing about it until it is too late 10 object,
and MS we don't propose 10 do any harm to
his precious property there will be no harm
done Now lot US light the gas and get to
worl . As he spoke the doctor laid upon
the table beside the body II case of instru-
ments, and soon had blaze of light in the
room. As soon MS the eve became accus-
toned to the new order of things the stark
body of the dead felcn WAS the center of Mt
traction for all. 7 . corpse WAS naked, and
probably on account of the unconscious Ms
ISOLATION of ideas, 1t WAS uncanny. In old
Ii ues this piece of human flesh, instead of
being an object of scientific research would
have been vet hanging in chains on n tall
gibbet for all men to see. As it wa:
THE BODY
was no less outre. Beyond the CHASTITY to-
kens of dissection there was the appearance
OF life and of health that was strkingly out
of place. Little time, however. was gwen to
sentimental reflections about the hard bier
of the dead telon, and in MS short time rs
the work could be done large forty cell
battery was put in position beside the table
and the proper amoun, ,t acld put in each
Of the cups. The zinc soon began 10 cor
rode and in two or three moments DR.. Re
Der, who WAS atte.diug to the battery, nm
nounced that he was ready In the mean
time the other two ply siciahs had been has
tily replacing the dead mans brain, which
hud been removed during the afternoon, and
getting the body in shape for the singular
rites which were about 10 be performed up
on IT.
There is only one way in which an eN-
pertinent Of this kind can be successfully
performed" said DR. Falkland, and "that Is
to begin logically ut the beginning, | SAW
similar operation pertorm,d Mt Vienna
when WAS student, only the man had I'M
fortunately baen beheaded, and hence we
could not b ing the success as far as hope
to push this. Now, gentlemen" aud the
Doctor took the position which the lecturer
invariably assumes, ''you will agree with me
that there is only one way to 60 about this
wo-k. and fortunately the diss, c,ion made
this e5euing saves us much work" So say
ing, he passed his knife quickly across the
abdomen, exposing the stomach, and fol
lowing the knife came the crepitatiou which
every one has seen in in newly killed meat Ill
II saughter- house.
"Why don't YOU Negin ut the brain, Doc
tori" queried the scribe.
Because the stomach and its appendages
survive the rest of the body for many hours.
The wavv motion of the thread like papilIie
does not cease sometimes for days after
death | have mysr seen them moving
forty eight hours after the pulse had stopped.
You see the idea is to begin here, where life
still remains, and work back, and where mo.
ton and heat are there life is, my boy,
Look nj this ~ and cutting open u part of
the mysterious laboratory Of nature lying
before group. the doctor showed the wavy
| nj, = bn ~,
working MS industriously MS though tie body
about them was not dead, purv,ying TODD for
II frame which could not assimilate IT.
a GENTLE CURRENT OF ELECTRICITY
vas passed through the muscles of the SOM
ach, md MS the work went forward the effect
could almost Immediately be seen. OF
course the tbers twitchcd nervouSly to and
| FRI, ms any piece Of flesh will under the in
| huence of electricity, but there was more
than this-the twitchingS in few moments
became rhythmic ard ms the proper points
were alternately touched the whole stomach
ut Inst began its USUAL churnmg motion and
this much of the frlon's body was AS fully
alive MS it had ever beer, They have spoiled
the brain in their dissection this afternoon )"
said DR.. Falkland, "and hence We will have
to detach q couple of cells and make sepa
rate brain for each part of the body which
we wish to bring back to life The wires
from two cells were accordingly bent into
the tendons of the stomach and the &C
ton, MS the galvanic current boiled out Of
the rotting zinc, became as human and as alive
as it ever was. The next attack by the ply
sicians was upon the spinal chord, which had
been broken on the end of the rope in the
morning, MS the Doctor remarked that there
was no use in attempting to
do anything with the heart be.
cause the other physicians had injected for
eign matters into the veins and arteries and so
put tho return Of the circulation out of the
question. The current up and down the spi-
nal chord was begun with small amount of
electricity and gradually increased until the
whole thirty eight cups left in the battery
we're dstilling their occult influences into it
before the manifestations became in any way
remarkable.
| At last, however, the senseless twtchings
stopped along the line of the cord itself, and
the body began to warm, the hands and feet
lost their stiffness and began moving easily
and like u person in slumber, and it be.
came very evident that at this point the
nervous system outside Of the great ganglion
the brain ITSELF was fully restored TO feeling
and being. That this was the fact could
easily be seen by the wonderful motions OF
the hands; they clasped the chest us though