The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-06
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4219 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, Ill.
For years he has experimental along the
line which has ended in success. He be-
lieved himself for very long period on
the verge of great discovery and finally
he achieved what he had almost begun to
fear was an impossibility.
The subject of this experiment ended
her life last July. Nature had made her
beautiful, and in all the weeks that have
elapsed since existence terminated not
one whit has that beauty deteriorated.
The young woman WAS just nearing her
twenty-third year and was Chicagoan
by birth. She was rather above the aver
age station in life, but had been thrown
on her own resources She died rather
suddenly and therefore no wasting disease
marred her beauty. As all her relatives were
dead, and as her friends were unable to
pay her funeral expenses, Mr.. Boydston
determined, Instead OF letting her go to
an unmarked grave, to make her the sub
ject of an experiment The thought of
keeping a young woman who had passed
away in a big city was a daring one and
seemed more like the tale Of fiction
writer.
Mr. Boydston resolved to brave criticism
and proceed TO put his theory TO the test.
In selected space in the rear of his shop
he placed the young woman and then be-
gan the process that has resulted in
marvel. At the present moment this
phenomenon lies in box within few feet
of one of Chicago's busy streets. Thous.
ands pass daily, unconscious of her pres
ence. When Mr.. Boydston wishes to ex-
hibit the success of his idea the young
woman is taken from the place where she
lies and placed in such position that she
is supported by the wall. Behind her is
draped a curtain. She seems to have just
awakened from slum Der and to be about
to speak. Her eyes are bright and look
out at those around her as if instinct with
life, and yet she is as inanimate as a mar
BILE statue.
Every possible test has been made to
prove the experiment either success or a
failure, and in every instance the result
has pointed toward the fact that now
stands revealed. Mr.. Boydston here for
the first time makes public the knowledge
of what has happened. 1t is not matter
of which he cared to say such, but finally
he realized that such knowledge as this
was not only of interest TO people in gen.
eral, but would engross the attention of
medical science. 1t marks new era in
the line of avoiding, in appearance at
least, the presence of the great destroyer.
1t accomplishes what many persons have
sought for years to do. 1t shows that we
are on the borderland of continent of
knowledge OF which even the closest
students of the human physique are to-
tally ignorant.
Mr.. Boydston's discovery seemingly
makes person who has passed away
totally impervious to the destructive pro-
cesses of nature. A startling fact is, too,
that it is in total contradiction to one of
the best-known biblical precepts. Never
in the history of the world has anything
been discovered of this sort which COM
pares with this. or, at least, what it seems
to be. Of course, time alone can success
fully answer the question, but so far as
experiments can show the statement
made is absolutely correct.
While Mr.. Boydston has had but little to
say concerning the strange truth his pa
tient investigation has revealed to him the
fact OF his achievement has become noised
abroad to slight extent among medico-