The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-10
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night ago discovered how it was that
had erred, and since then have sue
ceeded in everything l have tried. l
have formed the oroteids, the fats, and
the carbohydrates, which 90 to make
up protoplasm, ADD with these for my
solid foundations have made every
minute and complicated organ of the
body. [ have done more than that
have put these component parts togeth-
or, and now behold what have made"
He lifted sheet, which was thrown
over a heap of something on the table,
and L started backward with a strange
mixture of awe and horror. For,
stretched out on that marble slab, lay
naked body, which, if it had never been
man, living and breathing, as lived
and breathed, then would have sworn
l dreamed.
The thoughts which began to come
into my mind probably showed in my
face, for the Professor said: "You
doubt? You think that / have lost my
reason and this thing is some man that
l have killed. Well, do not blame
you. A year ago myself would have
scoffed at the very idea of creating
such a man. But you shall see, you
shall be convinced, for, in the next
part of the experiment 1 must have
your help. l will show you how have
made this man, or will make another
before your eyes. Then you and L, we
will go further, we will do what no one
but God has ever done before, we will
make that inert mass q liuinQ man.
The horror of the thing began to
leave me, for was fascinated by what
he said, and began to feel the same
spirit with which he was inspired.
He took me into his private labora-
tory, and before my eyes, with only the
contents of few re-agent bottles,
blowpipe, and an electric bat
terry, he made a mass OF human
neither will tell you in detail how it
was done. God forbid that any other
man should see what / saw afterward
"Now, all that remains is the final
experiment, and that with your help l
propose doing tonight" said the Pro-
lessor. "What we have to do is as
much of riddle to me as 1t is to you. 1t
is purely and simply an experiment.
l am going to pass through that lifeless
clay the same current OF electricity
which, if sent through living man,
would produce death. OF course, with
a man who had died from the giving
out of some vital function / could not
hope to succeed, but the organs OF this
man which have made are in per-
fectly healthy condition. 1t is my hope,
therefore, that the current which would
destroy living man will bring this
thing 10 life"
81 have taken the sternum bone
from a dead mans chest, analysed it,
then brought together similar elements,
placed them in mould, and l have
produced bone which was just as
real as the one with which started.
There were only two things in nature
which 1 could not reproduce. One was
starch, that substance whose analysis
has defied chemists of all ages; the
other was flesh. Though l have anal
yzed bits of it carefully, when l have
brought together again those elemen-
ry parts the flesh would not form.
Chemists all over the world have
b able to resolve the flesh into pro-
tie. Us, the awesome proteids, as they
are called. They form the principal
solids of the muscular, nervous and
granular tissues. the serum of the
blood and OF lymph But no man on
earth except myself has ever been able
to create a proteid. They have missed
the whole secret because they have
been working at ordinary temperatures.
Just as the drop of water will not form
from its two gases at 1850 degrees
Fab, nor at it's own lower explosion
temperature, unless the spark be added
80 will protoplasm not form except un.
der certain electric and thermal condi.
tons"
"We bore that naked body, not 6
corpse and yet 80 terribly like, into the
electric laboratory, and laid it on slat
of slate. Just ct the base OF its brain
we scraped little bare spot not larger
than q pea, and, as 1 live, a drop oil
blood oozed out. On the right wrist
just over the pulse, We made another
abrasion, and to these spots we brought
the positive and negative wires from
off the mains of the street current out
side.
held the two bare uninsulated bits
OF copper close to the flesh, Prof. Hol
brok switched into circuit 1000 volts OF
electricity, and then before our start
ling eyes that thing which was only &
mass of chemical compounds became Q
man.
A convulsive twitching brought thu
body almost into sitting position
then the mouth opened and there burs
forth from the lips groan.
L have been in the midst OF battles
and have seen men dying all arounC
me, torn to ribbons by shot and shell
and have not flinched, but when
tore the wires from that writing
grosning shape and saw its chest begil
to heave with spasmodic breathing
tainted.
When came to myself l was lynn
half across the slab of slate, and tn
room was filed with sickening stencil
an odor of burning flesh. looked 70
the writhing form which had last seel
on the table, but those wires, with thei