Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-08-08
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Near the middle OF the nineteenth
a story based on the idea that the uv
Ing numau body by 4 process OF ex
hauSton OF its moisture called deSic
cation could be kept rs Il mummy for
an unlimited period and by the reintro.
ducuou or water could he reauimatcd.
Aus literary production was conSid,
cred by the people of that age to be
very ingenious and highly imaginative.
There was no prcteuSe ON the part OF
was built was or ever would be poSSt-
be. nor was IT taken seriously by the
pubic.
The coming OF the twentieth century
marked the beginning OF 4 new scien
tine era For hundred years men
had been discovering that they could
talk To each other from different parts
OF the globe: that disease was nothing
more OF less than the work of inf
nitely small germs and hundreds Of
othcr-to them marvellous processes OF
nature TheN" discoveries were mostly
accidental But about the year 1900
rich men began to found institutions
with "A view TO making regular prog
reSS
one OF the most important subjects
studied 10y these institutions has been
the human body and that mysterious
re l,; al, tt 4
grows as It grows In the year 1912
scientists began To experiment. among
other things on the animal heart and
found that portions of II removed from
the body and cultivated in hyptontc
plaSma would pulsate for several
months This changed the conditions
under which the animal might he pro
nounced dead 1t was also about this
time that scientists laid down two
causes of bodily death or corruption
the action of microbes and self diges-
ton From this scientific fact natural
~ followed the axiom exclude the
microbes, exhaust the water and there
can be no death
A hundred years have interviewed be
tween a knowledge of this fact and its
being put In practice That which 100
years ago was the basis OF an imagi
native extravaganza has today become
the subject OF an actual occurrence.
1t appears that about the middle OF
the twentieth century there lived In
Chicago then a small city Of not more
than four or five millions OF people.
meat prcsprvpr named SwartZ. whose
son Adrian chose. rather than follow
in the footsteps OF his father. to de.
vote himself to scientific research, Re
ing heir to couple OF billion dollars.
or 1900 wealth unitS-the people OF
that day had not been driven by vast
denominations to our present system
OF typfying fortunes-he was not pre-
vented from following unremunerative
tastes by poverty
This Adrian Swartz loved beauti-
full girl whose name appears on the
records as Muriel Anderson Profess
sor Swartz worked on his own lines,
in his own laboratory. keeping his In
vestigations n profound secret What
he was doing has only come to light
fifty wears after be was engaged in
his work He was absorbed In two
things his Investigations with view
to perpetuating the life principle and
Miss MureI Anderson
It was then known that different
parts of the body may he taken from
person who has recently been pro
nounced dead by the old standard and
preserved in cold storage vaults for
an indefinite period The young pro
fessOr was able to start on his invest,
cations with a knowledge Of this and
other facts Knowing that corruption
may be kept ont by excluding mi
crobes and water he devoted himself
to the discovery Of n process by which,
after having kept them ont. the wafer
might be reintroduced at later date
without admitting the microbes.
Thaf the breathing process may he
suspended without producing corrup-
ti0n was also known 10 Professor
SwartZ. and this was very important
point The main problem before him
was not now TO keep gut corruption.
hit to restore animation
Miss Muriel Anderson was taken i'll
and died Her lovers grief was so
great that for time II was feared
that he would lose his reason There
was no evidence that the body was NOT
disposed OF by burial. which was the
usual method III those days After the
girls death SwartZ was observed 10
pursue his Investigations with stun
more eagerness than before Indeed
his relatives feared that he would 20
insane on the subject OF pcrpetuatlnP
life,
There are traditions that n dog BE-.
longing to one Of MS friends dicd and
ten years later appeared at his mas
tcr's door and showed great delight ~
the reunion II was whispered that
the dog bad been reanimated by the
young professor There was n simia'
story about cat. but unscientitc per
sons claimed there was nothing ~
markabie In bringing back cat 10
lfte except for the tenth time. These