The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-22
OFFERS $50 FOR BODY.

OFFERS $50 FOR BODY.
n RE you dying? Would you like to
| IA have $50 more to spend during your
~ Few remaining days or weeks on
this terrestrial sphere? II you need
the $50 you can get ~, cash down,
by proving you cannot live more than
| half a year longer and by assigning your
| corpse for post-mortem operation. DR..
l.. G. H. E. Zeigler a surgeon. promises to
give the $50 each to all persons, up to the
number of $500, who will sign contract
ment's use under his knife and In front
! of his camera.
DR.. Zeigler's extraordinary offer was
made public today through an advertise
ment inserted in the Daily News. The
physician says he had made an important
surgical discovery in a method Of operat-
ing painlessy and without the use of
| anaesthetics. To set forth his discovery
! to the medical world he is writing book.
He needs 400 half-tone illuStra lions in the
big volume to show the practical aEplica-
tions of his theory. Having found 1t Inn
possible to obtain satisfactory photographs
of actual operations on living subjects.
he says. he intends to go through the
motions on dead bodies. SO the poses in
cisions and methods may be accurately
displayed.
Eyes. the nervous tension of performing
an actual operation on a conscious living
person is such that I find 1t impossible to
hold myself in a pose long enough to Sc
cure a satisfactory photograph" said DR..
Zeigler today. The physician is small
man. bundle of nerves himself, and as
he spoke his body fairly quivered. He
had finished an operation only Q moment
before and had just begun another.
Quickly, nervously. he stepped from the
subject Of his operation to the desk. where
lay proof sheets of his volume, put in
binder that made the work look about the
size of an unabridged dictionary. Another
quick motion and he had passed the pages
through his hand and required to the rea-
sons for his strange proposition.
"Aii I want" said he. "is enough bodies
TONS Already I have closed contracts
with several dying persons-seven, in fact
and when they are deceased their bodies
will be taken to an operating table. where
! 1 have q camera, prepared for instant use
With my assistant and AZ many relatives
or friends Of the dead present as may
choose to be there. would so through
the operation stopping long enough at the
different periods to secure complete Illus
trations.
mot for anything would mestreat any
one Of the bodies which would be brought
to me thus. know bodies are treated
shockingly in dissecting rooms, but the
operations I would perform would not
amount to dissection. and would be most
careful of them. OF course, after the Pho
tographs were completed bo';y would be
returned to the family for burial"
corpse will ''be treated as sacred We
hicie which has performed all its earthly
functions and which no longer holds It's
spiritual inhabitant within its carnate
walls. The subject will receive precisely
the same tender care and consideration us
if a member of my own family
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do you realize that if 400 persons sell
their bodies to you the cost to you would
be over $4,000 for the pictures?" DR..
Zeigler was asked.
ooh. certainly" he replied, as pleasantly
and yivaciously as If 30 cents had been the
sum mentioned. land I will not conceal
from you that I expect to make money
from it. My method is my secret. but !
intend to reveal it to the scientific and
medical world through this book. which
I have copyrighted and the proceeds from
which, am sure. will more than reimburse
he"
tn a query, "In general terms I should
say that 1t is the application by assist.
ants of pressure upon nerve ceniefs ana
arteries Of the subject, while the operator
works where, the circulation has been cut
off.and while no pain can be transmitted
to the brain. I have studied osteopathy.
| as wen as surgery Of the old school, ana
this method is a combination Of the prfn-
ciples Of the two schools as we,..
That 1t is practical I have proved repeat
ellv. OF course it would not apply TO
vital parts or portions OF the bod E'mch
| could not be disconnected from nerve
centers."
Gould you not be imposed upon by per-
sons who would assign their bodies to
you for the sake of the $50 and then evade
delivery"
soF xnv11i oo circumstance
could Judge easily. and then l would NOT
engage in such contract without the
consent of the immediate relitfves' 81
there would be not trouble or dispute aiter
death. I have had no di1nculty IN nnua
ing persons to enter into .ne agreement
| when 1 have been able to find them. 10
find dying persons who are TO oe uus-
find dying persons who are NJ 10 NC ~
iects is the trouble. and that 1t why ! re-
| sorted to the advertising columns OF the
Daily News. ~
~ think many a person who Knows ne
! or she is about to die would like TO nave
$50 to pay of a debt OF assure decen.
burial and would be glad to aid science
"a we'll. so I don't anticipate much deiay
in securing the 400 corpses.
she DIDN'T co aPLY.
John B. Van Every. for years vice
| president of the Western Union Telegram
company, has favorite story of the early
history of the company. Rochester
clothing manufacturer received a contract
for making the uniforms for the telegraph
operators along the line of the New YORK
Central railroad. In order to measure tne
operators for the uniforms he sent teie-
Grams along the line asking them to meet
him ON the station platforms He sent
this telegram to the operator at Clyde.
N. T.:
Meet me on arrival OF e2:lo p. m
train. wear nothing but s..... and trous-
ers"
+ At the appointed time he reached the
CLYDE station and inquired for the opera
TOR He saw Z young lady looking wist
fully about her. She said in answer to hts