Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-06-24
Wednesday, June "a, 1885.
DEAD DOGS.

DEAD DOGS.
The French scientist who claimed
that dog that had been dead for sew
eral hours had been resuscitated has
overdone the thing in the report Of
his experiments. He cut of dogs
head and then injected the veins Of
the head with blood. He reports that
the head was able to close its mouth,
turned its eyes in the direction of the
person who called its name, and bark
ed whenever piece Of meat was held
to view. AS the Partisan failed 10 ex-
plain how the head could bark with
out lung attachment, discredit was
thrown on the whole story. But an
experiment made by two New York
scientific persons few days ago has Il
more encouraging face on IL. A dog
was bled to death and permitted to re-
main dead for three hours and a half.
At the expiration of that time blood
was injected into the dogs veins, and
il recovered and is now as well as
usual. This fact so worked upon Mr..
Alden of the New York Times that lie
Immediately sought and obtained u
foreign appointment from the govern
ment. He evidently did not want to
remain in this country and see IL dot
ted all over with dog crematories,
which would have to be erected, for
the only possible way to put il out of
the power of evil-disposed persons to
bring mean dogs back to life, after
they had been killed, would he to
burn the bodies.
In consideration of the unusual
kindness the American people have
shown to Mr.. Alden, he has felt it his
duty 10 leave behind him some sug-
gestions which will serve to reconcile
his eountrymen to the calamity which
has overtaken them by reason of this
gone-dog discovery. In an affecting
article in the Times Mr.. Alden advises
dogs head instead of the whole dog.
He says 1.-THE head can be mounted on
neat stand and il can he filled with
blood whenever the owner wishes to
pet his abridged dog. The owner
could permit the head to die through
the day time and could vivify it only
in the evening, thus obtaining all the
advantages Of canine society at very
little expense for blood. There can be
no doubt that If persons desire to keep
such dog as spitzes and pugs, the plan
Of keeping only the dogs head, d G.
prived of the power to bark, and in
capable of biting an uususpecting leg,
would be great improvement on the
present plan of keeping whole dogs,
and it is probable that ii would he
cheaper to fill dogs head with blood
for an hour or two every day than It
would be to feed them with meat and
supply them with cats for outdoor
sports. The great value of the dis
coveries made in connection with
dead dogs Is that If dead dogs can he
brought to'life by filling them with
fresh blood, they can be permanently
nourished and kept alive by the same
process, and that If this can he done
in the case Of dogs it can also be done
In the case OF men. Nearly all the
physical troubles TO which flesh Is
heir are connected with our bodily
organs. Dyspepsia, heart and liver
diseases and consumption are all due
TO the fact that We possess organs.
Now, IL man can be Kept alive by
injecting fresh blood into his veins
every day be would have no use for
his digestive organs, and they would
In time become rudimentary and in
accessible TO the attacks Of disease.
He would never be troubled by dys-
pepsia, liver disease. or the whole
series Of diseases due 10 the presence
Of germs received in the stomach.
Then, too, he could save the time and
money that are now consumed in sup
plying the stomach with food, and In
the place Of spending several hours a
day at breakfast, lunch and dinner,
and perhaps vainly trying to find food
that would tickle his palate, he could
go every morning TO his doctor and
have his yesterdays blood drawn of
aud replaced with fresh blood In, say
FIVE or ten minutes"
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