The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-11

nation. The case was suffocation by
mephiucal gas. The subject was a clerk
in a grocery He had charge of the store
at night, and it was in his special charge
to have the place open at O'Clock in the
morning. He slept in little room at the
rear of the store. One morning the place
was not opened at the usual hour, and
repeated knocking failed to bring any
response. AS the door was not opened,
the grocer himself arose, grumbing at the
clerks laziness He went to the latter 5
sleeping room to upbraid him, and found
the poor fellow in bed, apparently dead.
DEMONSTRATION by the appearance of
sudden death, he sent for a physician,
who at once suspected it TO be a case of
asphyxia by mephitism. His suspicious
We're confirmed by the night-lamp, which
was extinguished, although well supplied
with oil and wick, and by charcoal par
TALLY reduced to ashes in portable stove
It was a cold morning, but the doctor had
the patient removed into the open air and
seated on a chair. The limbs hung loose
and dropping, the pupils Of the eye were
motionless, there was no trace either of
breathing or pulsation of the heart or
arteries and all the signs of death were
painfully present The ordinary physi-
clan would have pronounced the man dead
and beyond all hope.
However, the most approved methods
of restoring animation were persisted in
for long time without success, but about
4 o'clock i'm the afternoon, after eleven
hours of the most laborious and contin-
ued eXertion, a slight movement was de-
tected in the region Of the heart. Three
hours afterward the patient opened his
eyes. regained consciousness and was able
to speak Or. LOnde says that. beyond all
question. persons suffocated by mephitism
are not infequently buried when they
might be saved. know he is correct in
this position No doubt IN the cholera
season Of 1866 there were many premature
intarments in this city. One Of the pecu-
Uarities of this disease is to bring on some
of the symptoms Of death--the GOODNESS,
the prostratlon and the dull livid counte-
uauce-iong before life takes its departure.
II is an acknowledged fact that patients
pronounced dead Of cholera have been seen
TO repeatedly move one or more Of their
limbs, as If striving to regain a mortal
status. but in which they have not always
been encourag ed. At Warsaw, in Po-
land. 2 French physician. who had been
sent there by his government 20 study
the cholera, was engaged on a subject IN
tle dead-h0use OF the Bagatelle hospital,
when his attention was attracted 10 an
other body. that Of "A woman Of about 50
wears. who had been pronounced dead two
DAYS previous. Her eyes still bright, her
ioints supple but the whole surface Of
The body extremely cold lie saw her left
foot move several times IN the course OF
I'm hour. Attcrward the right foot moved,
but very fcobly The physician sent for
On Euncr. ana English surgeon, and DE-
rectad Doe attention 10 the phenomenon.
Bus ~ v.na nothing new, said ur. buuce.
Tfe had often noticed such cases. Never
treloaa. thc woman was left Boz the dis
sectIua room, ana later taken io the GENE
sfary Several othor medical men stated
trat thcs lrl made similar observations,
feom which tfe French doctor very Justly
draws enc conclusion thnt mnny cholera
rnfIanfr hove been buried alive