The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-03-11
Astounding Results Of Ex-
perimentS as TO Events
WHEN DEATH OCCURS
Weights Show Wierd Phenomenon---Sci-
entifc Men of the Highest Stand
ing Seek Solution Of Worlds
Greatest Problem.

Boston, March 11.--Five Mass
chusetts physicians Of the highest pro
fessional standing have just attained
what they believe to be decisive re-
suits in the investigation, reverently
undertaken and reverently carried out,
to determine the existence on non-ex-
istenrc OF 'saulH in the human body,
and to determine also whether the de-
parture of the soul" from human
body is attended by any manifestation
of nature that csn be made evident
to material senses
These Investigations, guarded with
the utmost privacy, have extended over
a period of about ak years in sani-
forum in this State.
The results obtained are known to
but half dozen scientists, although IL
is planned to make the whole discovery
public in the near future.
The physicians claim that through
their researches the mysterious human
soul has at last been catalogued upon
scientific principles, Just a. is the heart
the kidneys, the stomach and all vital
organs OF the hodyss an actual ma
terial thing, that when this soul fits
from the body it diminishas tire weight
Of the body by cetsin measurable
amount, and that this amount can BE-
weighed in actual pounds or fractions
Of pounds,
Every known test has been made
which would be in any way likely to
disprove the facts Instead Of doing
this, each subject has added to the con
iifmation Of the results which were OBJ
tanned when the first experiment was
made.
The difference between the weight OF
the live human body and the body a
moment after death, or when the soul
has quilted it, was found to be from
one.half ounce to one ounce, and to
this il is said there can be no other
possible solution except that it is the
weight Of the human soul.
IN every case the loss was shown
after all known scientific deductions
such ~ the loss Of respiratory air, Of
moisture and OF All excretions and Sc.
eretions of the body had been taken
into consideration
In order that the experimenting
physicians might accurately ascertain
that this unseoomtsble loes was not
due 10 some peculiar physical character
istic Of sex, botA men and women have
been subjects OF the experiments
In nearly all eases under test the al.
minishmeht took place upon the instant
1 s. - - s4t a al
IN ons case there was delay Of nearly
minute, believed to Ne due to the
slUggisEness Of that particular soul in
realizing that its physical letters had
been broken.
The method Of finding this result, a'
followed BY the doctors, was to piacs
the dying patients in led upon one Of
the platforms of pair Of scales made
expressly for the experiments, and then
to balance this weight BY placing an
equal weight in the opposite platform
| These scales were so dehcstely con
structed rs to be sensitive to weight
Of less than one tenth Of an ounce.
In every case when the soul was set
free by desth the platform opposite the
one in which lay the subject Of the test
fell suddenly Just as naturally would
have happened ii weight had beer
taken from the opposing balance. The
figures on the dial index indicated ths
diminishment in weight.
The greatest secrecy has hitherto
been maintained in these experiments
it being the desire Of Doctor Duncan
Mecdougall OF Haverhill TO give nc
publicity to the facts until they wer,
established beyond all shadow Of doubt