Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-04
MUMMIFYING BY
NEW PROCESSES.
Harini Turns the Dead to Stone-His En-
balming Process Preserves the Body Per-


fectiy.
London, December 4.-Scientists
here and elsewhere throughout Euco-
pean centres are at present deeply IN
terested in a report OF a remarkable
discoyerer in Naples. VINO has been
empaimlng bodies tor considerable
time by new process of his own that
not only preserves them perfectly, put
III many cases turns them TO KIND or
marble that keeps them as they were
in life, save that the flesh becomes as
hard as rock. They neither change
color nor form, but retain their fresh
ness as perfectly as in lie. Ehsio Ma
RIM, who is the discoverer of the new
process, has been practicing his art
without any notice for a considerable
time, until he was recently discovered
by medical practitioner OF London,
who wrote of his discoveries and their
effect in the London Lancet, medical
journal of acknowledged standing
With such a backing it is Impossible TO
doubt that the discovery has some real
value.
The process, the Lancet claims, will
preserve a body for probably thous-
and years; some bodies have already
remained in a state of perfect preserya-
ton for twenty years. Throughout
Italy, in its anatomical museums and
family vaults of it's cemeteries, Won
derful specimens Of such successful I'M
muuization are to be seen. For forty
years the Neapolitan surgeon has strlv-
en- to improve on the methods hitherto
in practice, and his results, as known
to the profession, throw all previous
successes into the shade. Without in
cision, without injections, simply with
a series of baths, he has succeeded IN
preserving the human subject from all
risk of decomposition whatever
This man robs death of one of its
worst terrors. His marvellous touch
makes death a serene repose, which
preserves all the graces, ali the beauty
of life
Il shall never forget" says the
writer in the Lancet. the beautiful pic
ture made by little girl put to sleep
(excuse the eXpression) by Marini
Frail and pale with her brown ring
let's clustering over her forehead, her
childish freshness preserved. little
Marie-whicn was the name of the
baby-seems still, after so many years,
to be nestled in the gilded dreams Of
cherubim OF the same age. She is in
q, g Oh those naive poses which babies
take during their sleep.
Many other dead people sleep peace
ably in the joyous splendor of Poggio-
reale, the cemetery of Naples, embalm-
ed in the same way. There Is Madame
Sazzaro Cipriani, whose body at this
moment has the look of an anaemic
dreaming II was not embalmed by
NJ. Marini until twenty days after her
death"
! Bodies preserved in this fashion have
2 nothing about them suggestive of death.
The first impression one has on seeing
one is that something magical and
superhuman has occurred.
( His modus operandi consists of three
stages.
| Provisional desiccation (preserva-
ton applied to the corium in It's transit
ton period. Bodies so prepared and
/ immersed in q liquid of his own devils
ing may regain their primary fresh
ness and be thereafter subjected to
anatomical operations or demonstra-
tons like the ordinary cadayera OF the
dissecting room.
Fertilization of the body so prepared
"a process which, in DR.. Marini's
hands, is so effective that the density
as well as the consistency Of marble
is attained, insomuch that a few hours
after the completion Of this stage key
brought in sharp contact with the sur
face ELECTS true metallic ring from
the body.
The restoration of this desiccated