The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-11-23
DIR. TANNERS IDEAS.
he TALKS or PREMATURE BURIAL
AND SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

| OfNnAAAiaAA A4uStC-Ate SuDtfC lF1nC1DtO OF
Life-Tse Doctor Convinced THAT Man
Can Hibernate.
Eight years have gone since DR.. II. S.
| Tanner performed his wonderful feat of
| fasting forty days and nights in Clarendon
| hall, in New York city. For sixteen days
he touched neither water nor food After
the sixteenth day he began to drink water,
| and subsisted on this alone during the re-
| manning twentyfour days of his fast
/ Tho public has not heard much of the
1 plucky little doctor for the last few years
! but not long ago he turned up in Chicago
bright and chipper, splendid specimen
| of man in perfect health, and with q
| rotundity of form indicative rather of the
| bon vivant than of a man who eats only
two meals day in summer and only one
| in winter.
| Where have you been keeping your.
self doctorf' asked n reporter, after
| friendly greetings had been exchanged
| Il Lave just returned from New Mex.
| leo, where | have been for nearly four
| years, pursuing certain Investigations of
n scientific nature. ! am much interested
in the subject of suspended animation or
counterfeit death. am convinced that a
| far greater percentage of people are
| buried alive than even those who have
ever given the matter much thought
NOuAd DS Wiling To DEltGVRs IN no conn
| try in the world are the dead buried with
\ such criminal haste. | may say, rs in the
| United States. | have been looking into
this subject moro or less for the last
| twenty five years, and the evidence have
| accumulated is startling tell YOU, it is
| murder. horrible murder. and IL is high
time some agitation was started for the
purpose of securing needed legislation ON
| the subject of the burial of the dead.
THE MOVEMENT II ECRoPE-
| The principle of life is so subtle. CON
| tinued the doctor, that nan with all his
| science knows nothing about IT. and the
| only safeguard against the awful crime
! OF burying alive those we love lies in the
| precautions that are taken against com
hitting their bodies TO tho tomb before
| decomposition has set in That is the
! only unlnistakable sign that death has
/ finally taken place. The people Of Hol.
! land We're among the first 10 awaken ta
the Importance of this subject, and in
| 1864 society was organized in Amstcr-
| dam for the purpose OF looking into eases
| where death seemed counterfeit rather
| than real In less than four wears thev
! had resuscitated-saved from cntoulbrselit
/ alive--no less than $50 persons In I7Cg
! the authorities ST Milan and Venice. and
| those ct hamburg, followed the exsrli1le
/ set by Holland, and \ little later similar
societies were formed at London. Paris
/ ana Glasgow. As result of the work and
Investigations Of these societies. a,,,onr
| the members of which were some Of the
! foremost scientists Of the times. II has
been proved that in a great number Of
! cases where every known test had been
| applied and preparations made tor the
! burial the subjects had recovered These
| experiences led Professor Morinc. of III,
University Of Rome, 10 offer 9 prize of
1850 francs for the best cssav On appar.
ent death; and the Marquis d'OucIe loft
20CG3 francs to be used il discovering the
| best means that could be applied in de-
| tecting the counterfeit of death And so
IN all countries statistics collated on this
subject are startling, IS revealing the
danger Of premature burial"
Now don't You think asked tho
doctor. that this is Q subject that peo-
pie should discuss, should be walked up
about?'
doctor:n
simply this: l hold-and it certainly
cannot be successfully contradicted-that
| the setting ia of decomposition IS the
only certain sign of death In the cb
! senco Of this burial should be DELAYED
weeks and months, If necessary, for 50
long as there is no decay life may hang by
| q feeble thread, and, BY that subtleaess
OF which | have already spoken, the re-
covery be spontaneous.
THE DOCTOR WILL HIBERNATE
another discovery that 1 have made"
said the doctor ''is that alternating ami
mails DO not use their lungs during the
period of Information. For several wears
have been studying the habits of this
class of animals, and, do you know. ]
am about convinced that man can hiier-
nate
Hero the reporter must have looked the
incredulity he felt, for the doctor fastened
10 explain: Take the bear for example,
its organs of respiration arc the same as
mans. and it hibernates for months with
out food or drink / have also been
studying the philosophy of the adopts
who used to be able to 20 into the death
trance at viii. Their preparation for this
was long fasting, and the trance condi-
ton following vas, in my opinion, q sea
son of hibernation. / am studying now
with yicT- of making some experiments
in this line, and the time may come when
| will permit myself to be sealed up in an
air tight coffin and laid away until such
time as | shall designate for it to be
opened"
But, doctos, YOU will not expect to
come out Of q test like that alive, will
your"
Yes. indeed. was the earnest reply.
Il have twice been near the portals of
the tomb III my studies Of this subject of
life principle and of suspended animation,
and firmly believe can go still nearer
that can to all outward appearances be
dead, and, remaining that way for o
length of time, can still come back q liv-
ing witness of the truth of my theories
and Investigations
Speaking of his fast, he said: "The
fact is, with most people the body rules
the mind, while the reverse should be the
case-the mind should control the BODY
Appetite, and it may be a depraved one,
clamors for this or that desired article
and people rush of to crafty it. When
| began my forty days fasting l said to
my stomach: Here, old fellow, l have a
job Tor you. | want YOU TO take a good
long rest, and want no grumbling about
it, That settled It, At 10 o'clock of the
last day of my fast, when had only two
hours to 60, a little child that was in tho
room where | was thrust q ripe peach un-
der my nose. IL Adam was tempted as
was tlen do not wonder that lie fell /
had so little longer TO go without eating
that l relaxed my will power, and truly
my greatest sufferings were during the
last two hours of my fast. Chicago
Tribune.
Not Success.
Women have tried to run a restaurant
In New York for women time out of mind,
but usuSlly made failure. Customers
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