Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-14

people of Burlington actually believe
these childstealng stories," said q young
physician, who had been an interesting
listener; ''my folks 1.-Two in Burlington,
and they write me that no such excite
meat was ever known up there as at pre-
sent exists among the negroes of the
north end of tho town"
The conversation drifted into n discus.
sion of some of the mysterious methods
ascribed to medical colleges. An oc-
c%asional Interpolation of Got off my
headl' or 'Im going to trade my leg
for Miller's ARM varied the converse.
ton.
Ono student told, amid shouts of
"Chestnut, chestnut" how q criminal
hanged and taken to a dissecting room,
was found to be alive when the scalpel
cut him. Another had seen babies SNUG
glcd into the vat-room by the score and
slipped away to distant colleges, and still
another knew of cases In Cincinnati and
other western cities where within half a
day from the time of giving an order
for q subject q fresh, almost warm
cadavar would be delivered to tho col
lege-usually taken from q class of PEG.
plo among whom a disappearance would
be likely to pass unnoticed. Some fear
full yarns were spun.
"You never heard Forbes tell about
the sneak.thief caught up here stealing
an 80 man watch, did your asked the
man who had addressed the Burlingtonian
visitor.
~vIviSECTIoN TERRoRS.
"They caught him trying to hide the
watch under a cad. In a minute "A dozen
fellows had him disrobed, bound and
stretched out on u table. His qualities
as a subject for dissection were lingering
ly discussed, and the culprit was told to
prepare himself for tho other world, The
opportunity, they said, of proving certain
questions only to be solved by vlvisec-
ton was one not to be neglected The
prisoner writhed and shriekod with hor-
ror, He thought his last hour had come.
The fellows looked awfully in earnest,
you know, and he believed they actually
intended to carve him up. He swore and
beloved, and once when ho touched al
arm on the table by his side he nearly
went into commissions. One man sug-
gested that the subject be kept alive rs
long as possible, and that, to ensure a
successful study of the veins, his skin
should be removed from the entire body,
beginning at the feet.
"The lines of the first incisions wei e
marked with a pencil and the chosen
operators took their positions, the knives
in their hands. The rest gathered around
with interested faces. The bad)y,fright
ened thief had become quiet from e K
haustion." The narrator paused n moment
as he skillfully raised a Gordon of mus.
cles and separated them n by II from
the ligaments.
"And what then2" asked an anxious
listener.
"What then2 Why, the boys thought
that was enough of one kind of fun, SC
they took him, naked as he was, and
doused him in the pickle-tub. Then, after
directing himto attire himself in his shirt,
they led him down to the back street and
let him loose. What became of him is 6
mystery"
The students wiped off their forcep'
and scalpels, laid cloths dampened with
alcohol across the faces of the dead, drew
up the canvas covers that protect thu
subjects in quiet hours from the sunlight
and left the room one by one, laughing
and specializing on the promised return
of the ''committee of one from Burling
TOM