Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16

the brain is all that is required TO stop a
mans brain from working and to send
him to sleep. BY all means avoid opiates
until every other means of inducing sleep
has been fruitlessly tried.
1.-THE idea is altogether too common
that when a man wants to go to sleep all
he needs to do is to swallow q dose of
opium or belladona, or inject a little
morphine into his veins. / tell you every
drug thatinfluces artificial sleep is apoison
which leaves behind effects from which
the user sometime never %recovers."
The reporter knew the orator to be
thoroughly posted on the subject In hand,
and meekly made a note of the foregoing
effect.
"See here; this is one of my expert
ments in the study of the phenomena of
sleep" continued the talker-one of the
five hundred medical students in Cincin-
c%innati, who is making q specially of this
subject-producing from a closet in the
rear of the room an ordinary water buck
ct. Pushing back his coat sleeve and
cuffs, he plunged his hand into the water
and brought out a dripping tortoise shell
kitten, with a five pound rod-iron at
tached.to q strap about its neck.
"This kitten has been under water for
seven hours, but will bet you a nickle
to a copper that he is not dead"
The little animal wa perfectly limp
and motionless. The most careful exam.
nation failed to show any action of the
heart, any vital heat or oGher evidence of
life. Contrary TO what night have been
expected, however, its abdomen was not
distented with the usual volume of water
swallowed by drowning animals; but this
fact was explained by the student with
drawing cotton plugs from its ears and
~nostrils and disengaging a linen bandage
from about its head, which has been 30
placed as to prevent the opening of the
animals mouth.
eff it has been under water seven
hours that kitten is certainly dead"
"Not at all. In the course of time
l will guarantee to take you and to down
you under the same conditions. and ten
hours after you have stopped breathing !
will pump wind into you and start your
lungs again, and a cat has eight more
lives than you have"
Never mind. / will take your word
for it,"
''That feat would be nothing. Let me
tell you what / saw in India about three
years ago and there are q dozen boys
about the college now who have seen
things that will seem even more incredi-
HE to you'll saw a Hindoo buried, alive.
His grave was watched day and night,
part of the time by myself, and at the
end of six weeks he was dug up and
brought back to life by some of his friends
He went into the grave voluntarily, you
understand, having prepared himself for
it before hand, and slept there for six
weeks, much as a bear sleeps through
the winter. We gave him 60 rupees
that is, $30-for his trouble, and con.
sidered himself well paid"
AS Allan Ingalls, remarked to one OF
his interviewers, a short time after hi
was arrested for burking the Taylor fam
| lily, ''These medical students are q power
full queer lot O men,"
"From that date / have given thii
study particular attention; but this ex
pertinent with the kitten is the only
pleasure l have got out of it as yet.
am always on the eve of a d~iccovery, blu
| never quite strike it," The body of tn,
kitten was placed on the fender, befor,
the open fire burning in the CRATE, ant
for several minutes the student rubbed i
with q soft Turkish towel. With a table
knife he pried open the tightly clenchet
jaws and poured q spoonful of brand,
into its mouth, confident that some of tn,
liquor would find it's way down the felin,
throat. After ten minutes manipulation
there were no signs of life, beyond an in
creasing degree of heat, which was, o
course, due to the fire.
The rubbings were continued, and tn,
pose of assisting the brandy in tindin,
its level. Presently the muscles of tn
lower jaw began to twitch, and the stu
dent left his work long enough to cut
p~igeon-wing.
"What did / tell you2" said he. ''Thi
cat was not drowned; life was only
suspended for seven hours, and in thirty
minutes more it will BIO crying for /
saucer of milk"
Even while he was speaking, one o
the rigid limbs began to curl up in
natural manner, and the pupils in boil
wide-open eyes gradually contracted. Ii
thirty minutes, as had been promised
the drowned kitten was seated composed
ly before the fire, making its toilet.
"There will be some astonishing dis
coveries made in the subject of suspend,
ed animation before many years, and
wonder that thel whole medical f~raterni
ty are not working ON it. Every DO,
knows that flies which have been hoatin'
in a basin of water apparently dead TO
hours will come to life when placed il
the sun, and their resuscitation is just a
wonderful as would be the bringin
: back to life of a human being. Els
taken from the water and at once expos
cd to extreme cold will grow stiff an
brittle as dry clay. They may be KEEP
out of their native element in this condi
ton for u week, and when replaced il
the water their faculties will return t
them.
'Bears curl up in their dens at the be
ginning of winter, and remain, to all in
tents and purposes, dead until the fol
lowing spring opens. In the course o
time man will be able to do this"
"But what will be the advantages
Who wants to sleep half his life away Z
"The thing will have a great many ad
vantages. SUPP ose you have an income o
500 a quarter"
"That is about the size of it, sur
enough"