Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-25
1.-THE ANTiSEPTlC LADY"
Strange Woman Stops Decay With
Her Mysterious Touch.

Scientists in Paris have for some time
been considerably excited over the dis
coyerv of woman who, they are now
convinced. can preserve vegetable and
animal tissues merely by laying her
hands upon them.
They call her 1.-THE Antiseptic Lady"
and declare that she possesses hither-
to unknown property of human eniuVla.
or emanaton of some preservative power
from her hands. The name of this wo-
man is not made public, but Drs. Clarac
and Liaguet of Bordeaux, have made
many experiments with this remarkable
individual, and while they declare they
do not ask to have their discoveries ac-
cepted until others have also experiment
ed they willingly put themselves on
record as placing their entire belief in
the powers the woman has to preserve
both vegetable and animal matter
These doctors have known the woman
nearly five years, and during that time
have known that she kept by her various
plants, vegetables, and small animals,
all perfectly preserved and free from
the least sign of decay or putrefaction.
Both the woman and her husband de-
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touched by the woman's hands once 4
cay In fact, the woman, it is claimed
can preserve these objects by merely
passing her hands over them and not
actually touching them.
Probably one of the most astonishing
things claimed is that a small animal
killed by gun was kept as perfect at
the end of four years as it was the day
it was brought in from the forest. The
fur was still clean and bright and shiny
and there was not the least sign OF de-
cay about the body.
These doctors themselves selected
variety of objects-roses, branches Dear
ing leaves, a rabbit, some uncleaned fish
a number of oysters, plants. and wine.
These they brought to the woman and
watched her carefully. Her hands We're
washed by them to make certain she had
no sort of preventative upon them.
Some of the objects. at their bidding, she
handled, others she merely passed her
hands over without touching them.
These objects were then carefully
wrapped in paper and locked up in
laboratory where no one could see or
touch them or even get in the same room
with them.
At the end of 10 days the rose had
dried. but every bit of its color, as nat
ural as when picked in full bloom, was
preserved, while the leaves were bright
and green and adhered to the twig with
the same tenacity it would while grow
ing 1t is well known that under ordt-
nary circumstances the leaves would
crumbe, turn brown and shatter, and
the rose leaves would also turn brown
and shatter. Evidently the only change
in this rose was that it had dried.
Wine at the end of Il days had not fer
mented in the least. The woman had
dipped her fingers in this. Wine she had
merely passed her hands over had Soured
and nodded, showing that by touching
with her hands there was vastly more
preventative power than merely passing
the hands near the object
oysters she had handled dried COM
pletely in IS days without the least Sign
of decay. Other oysters she had not
handled or seen, but from the same lot
and placed in the same room, had pu-
trified in nine days and. turned to re-
pulsive liquid. Two dead specimens Of
fish, not cleaned, had dried in three days
with no decay and the eyes were as
bright as when taken and the color of
the scales quite as brilliant
About the same result was obtained