Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-09
ELECTRopLATING THE DEAD
Bodies Thus Treated win Keep For.
ever aud Solve Zig Problem.
INcM Ynrk ncrnldl

Among the topics constantly aTitn.
INK social and sanitary experts are the
difficulties OF urban syputurc. The
larger cities no longer tolerate burial IN
the cemeteries within their limits. Tho
cNpcnrc and trouble that this prohiui-
ton Involves have siNen rise e. the al
tprnnte ideas NJ Incarceration and other
similar methods Tor the disposition 81
the dead. 10 many details ~ the pres
ont way 81 conducting funerals have
been developed hy the progressive spirit
81 the times that u II no wonder that
In this peculiar neld also there should
b. an inclination OF scientific elements.
Evidences found by delivers into the
cxtnnt relies ~ the past ~ tho pru-
nclency the nncieutH attained Ia tho
process of smhalmlng have encouraged
modern attempts nt the preservation OF
the dead. Come OF these arr mere tcm-
porury cNpcdicutH to Keep the body Tor
"a brief time before burial Others at
tempt Co make the preservation permn-
noni. \ qualified success In this de
reVtluu has led To the assertion that
the Loot art ~ ombalming has been rr-
discovered.
THIS II the age OF electrical wonders.
The ar.n OF human niiHirr into which
the mysterious current docA not run
and rcyoiutlonixe existing conditions "
practically unknown. The domain NJ
Wv NNfAAh NANaNAhhf -" ~ f'tHt.N $3.50 '"H
A rcientlst OF most advanced elcctri-
cal ideas who recently returned from
Europe IN the advocate 81 an nppllca-
tlon ~ electrical rncthodn Tor the pres
-rvnfion ~ the dtad. He holds that
hia .xrorimcnts Prove IL IL not only cn-
tircly practical, bat the genuine end 81
the ngc system 81 PERMANENT cinbnlm-
ing Iis has been lnhoriouH student
OF Tryptology and " familiar with all
the discoveries made In the di-lntegrni-
ing OF the munmlcs from their ancient
coXerinFr.
During u stay In Rome he visited the
famous cemetery 81 the capuchinS, un-
der the church Of that order. IN the
pinExi de Cappucclni. Here the vaults
contain tnmhH with earth from Jerurn-
lem. when new intermeniH ar- to be-
made the bones longest undinturbcd In
these vaults are taken out From
these the most CHASTITY decorations for
the wills ana roof have been fashioned.
while looking az the crumhiinE remains
Of the four thousand departed monks
lined M against the wallis II occurred
to him that n bodies were only treated
To- the electrical process by which they
could be- cnunHcd Ia "a metallic surface
they would thus be preserved Intact
and lifclikc for all time.
Experiments followed which the aci-
enlist regards ~ hlFhly satisfactory.
10 tNuNr uNfMfNlllNf WIN iilH llhhfAH 81
elcctfnpintlng Il may be said that 60
have q thin nlm ~ metal deposited on
the desired surface II IN first covered
with plumhnFo-mo familiar 10 un-
scientific ken In stove polish. Then
with an acid bath ana the electrical
current the transfer II effected.
Ordinary metallic piatingn ~ table
ware and other articles OF familiar iirc
are common enough, but experiments
had 10 show that the Idea was also APP
plicnhlc to other substances. Meats
and vegetable nbora were 80 treated to
his satisfaction and then he advanced
TO his omhnlmiuF theory.
IN this the body " prepared aH for
ordinary embalminr, The yisccrp ARE
removed ana q preHcryativc liquid M
Infected Into the veins, a coating ~
metal applied by the electro plating
process then Theoretically encascH tho
whole frame and it h preserved intact
forever.
In this outer shell gold. silver. cop
ror or nickel could be used 10 suit the
purse and fancy of those having tho
emhalming done. With Il collins aud
Baskets could b. done away with, a
man could pcrnotuate himself In on
during brasH or more precious metals.
The Charles surfaces OF tho future
who have 10 raise money ON their own
"nosh and blood" could transmit 10 the
Sir divers securities that had intrin-
sic aR weil az artistic values,