Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-06

be imagined than that Of the death o.
the late Mr.. Irving Bishop, under The
circumstances in which Git occurred
There is q story told and retold, dis
cussed and rediscussed for some. centu
ries past, about the great anatomist, Yes
alius, how in the zenith Of his fame, in
the early spring Of the year 1902, he left
the brilliant court of Madrid, where as
archlatrus to the Emperor Philip, he
reigned supreme, and, passing through
| Venice to Cyprus, %journeyed on pilgrim
| ages 10 the Holy Land as a penance for
some great offense. His offense was-so
runs the story of Hubert Languer-that,
believing a young Spanish nobleman to
| be dead, he made 3 dissection OF the
body for the sake Of inquiring into the
cause of the illness which he had
not rightly comprehended; but
that, on opening the chest
Of the youth be saw the
heart beat. The parents, coming after
ward to a knowledge Of the fact, were
not satisfied with prosecuting Vesaiius for
murder, but accused him to the inquisi-
ton Of impiety, the hope that he would
| be punished with more severe rigor by
Judges Of that tribunal thsn by those Of
| the common lava fate that was newt
able, had not the sovereign interposed
and saved him on condition that by way
Of atoning forever for his error, be should
undertake the pilgrimage to Palestine,
from which, as it happened, he never re-
turned to his home, but, wrecked on the
island of Zante, died OF starvation there.
| History repeats itself both in fact or in
fable, the repetition is presented. A
| strange erratic being falls into a state re
sembling death, or, as is much more
likely, into real death. and the medical
men who made the necrOpsy are accused,
| by one of the parents Of the patient, OF
| the awfully tragic act OF opening tae
body of a son not dead. The parent
goes so far as to advertise Bishop muir
! dered," and requests all friends land the
public who condemn this unpardonable
murder" TO attend without further invi,
tation at the funeral
Meanwhile there are certain side issue:
which, whatever the final verdict may
be, call fer immediate attention. Ia the
first place, the question up-ot
what disease did the subject of this even
die? Surprising it was catalepsy, VIVA
was the mode of death2 Wes ii by syn
cope, by nervous exhaustion, by nervous
pressure, by apoplexy, by sudden yascu
lar relaxation vascular paresis), or BY
sudden vascular contraction (yascula
tetany)Y Pinel speaks Of an instance o
catalepsy which terminated IN apoplexy
and Holier, according TO Copeland, re
corded an example in which after dealt
congestion of the vessels Of the brain wa
discovered, with slight ex.ravasation; blu
really SO very little is known ON whic,
we can safely rely, that strictly, the path
olegist, on post norton appearances alone
has no data on which to found a safe cor
clusion in respect to mode Of death
Neither have we any light thrown on tn
subject from the lower animal world
since il is not certain that in the lowe
. ~s~~S' ss S~oJo~s ~.-.-~y- 1Sd;a.- al.
q by another, which Professor Gairdn;
has very properly r~aised-namel,
! whether true catalepsy can ever !
: closely stimulate absolute death that
= skilled and careful practitioner can real
be deceived. DR.. Gardner thinks no
: and We are inclined to agree with hin
, such a case must be 80 rare that prob,
: bly, at the present hour there is not
! practitioner living who could give fro
. facts written faithfully down at the m,
|. ment or observation, q record that woul
carry home conviction to any half doze
. colleagues in medicine duly qualified /
analyze the proofs adduced. To this sls
. we would add that no ooe whatever VII
would take the pains TO submit to proc
the eleven tests of death which were e,
pounded and debated at the medical 8,
. ciety Of London aSfew months ago coul
by any possibility make the mistake {
/, accepting for a dead body that was ali "
There is, finally, a third connection wit
this case which in public important
; overrldes all the rest; we mean the ma,
> ness Of fostering the development +,
mental conditions leading to states
abnormal as that which the late N
Irving Bishop cultivated, practised an
did his best to disseminate. The teasic
of brain TO which he subjected himse
In his performances-of what good coul
ii be, even il il enabled him to max
shrewd guesses, construed from the s.
we're practice of taking in at q glance
the eye, an acute attention Of hearini
3 a refinement OF touch, of what was rC
appreciable to others less obseryant
And what more is such tension than a
exaggerated susceptibility; what NOR
than the refinement Of touch and hearin
which we witness in the blind? Thi.
and nothing more; hat without n~ecessit
it brings the healthy mind, for the SAX
Of morbid desire Of art, int
states of disease, the certain end whereo
ia the vanity of mental alteration an
physical dissolution.