The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-12-16
LIFE BEYOND HE FREEZING
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In view of the remarkable endurance
shown by the horses driven by Sears, tht
man frozen TO aeath near MIL Guy
which are said to hayeo stood seven days
and nights without food or water in tne
freezing cold waiting for the word o.
command, the following account OIL eA-
periments with low temperature may no
prove unintsresting:
The, nine lives of a cat are not aito
gether customary. SINCE there seems .
be snoa doubt that 4 animals nave 'ar
greater power of endurance than puln"r
beings. Moreover, the lower down IN
the. animal scsle we go. the grsarr y
the recuperalye power. In a recent huih
Der of the New ork Staats-Zeituns "N.
liam Muller Erzbaeh gives his atteation
tothis subject, his experiments 3e'ns
chiefly, confined to frozen animals. me
writer says thai frozen animals are a.
ways killed If their bodies are no
warmed carefully and slowly; sudaea
thawing and sudden freezing are equally
fatal.r 1t is necessary therefore, to COL
animals in the same way that nature
does in the fall, and by proceeding IL
this way Herr Erzbach was successful
IF we. allowsra frog he says, TO re-
main for. a day or two in ice water lie
fore the experiment, it is a very simpre
matter, even in summer. to freeze 1t soild
without killing it. In general the tenn
peratpre may be determined by a tner
monster which As frozen in the. ice viii.
the frog, and there is no DOUBT that tn.
Temperature indicated is h of the an
imal bopy as well. The water is place.
ina . and, at FIRST is, merely exposed 70
the 9ehill of the surrounding air, an
later is cooled with a mixture OF ice n
SALT
Erzbach says. las soon as the ice toucheo
the body Of the freq the creature en-
deavored lazily to reach the surface o.
the lwater, but was pushed down with :
stick. 4AfterItheDaMter int thea flask Was
entirely frozen 1t was placed an the air
the temperature of which ranged from
a degrees Fair. to. IL degrees Fair. After
1--WE hours Of this temperature the ice was
slowly thawsdl In a room Of moderate
warsas.A. After an our the frog WAS
loosened from the ice and fioated on lhe
AwAtsrs thesAnimal was perfectly solid and
although it gradually became soft, it
showed no signs of life. After an hour
.andsa half more the head moved and The
frog commenced to hreathe. and after
this it u dsseveral weeks without any
apparent ipiusy haviag been caused by
the freezing. Green pond frogs show a
similar degree of endurance and they
may, remainsfrom tento ferty hours froz-
en- IN ice< at temperatures varying froni
n degrees Fair. to Is degrees Fanr.
Herr Erzbach says that there is no doubt
that in the experiments mentioned the
freeEing penetrated into every portion OF
the frog. there was no inner movement,
.andlit was not possible for the creature
10 breathe through its skin when frozen
inthe Ice. 80 far as we know. every form
of vital activity in the animal had ceased
but Notwithstanding this the organs OF
the creature were son constituted tDa
they were not injured and at the slight
est impulse took up the performance OF
theis usual functions.
Pictet. according to this writer. per
formed similar experiments with even
greater ranges Of temperature. Accord
jng 70 HON, nsh al stand . temperature
of s degrees Eahr.. but are killed at
Aegsees below ssressfross ear endure is4
degrees below zero. millipeds So degrees
bslsw sAro and saails even Ia degrees