Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-07-12


1t effective.
We are enabled IN this issue. owing
to the enterprise Of one Of our repor-
torial staff. who used ear megaphones,
Y ray telescopes for looking through
stone walls and other modern devices,
to give our readers the mos. remarka.
bic achievement in science ever pro
duced by mortal man.
In the year 1855. when the thermom.
eter stood so degrees below zero Fab.
renhelt, there died In Chicago Muriel
Anderson. The night Of her burial
her lover went alone TO her grave. ex.
humed her body and removed It to his
laboratory, his object being TO attempt
to reanimate it. He had not then per
fected any process by which this could
be accomplished and for the time be.
ing devoted himself to preserving the
body. His method was twofold, sur
rounding II by chemically produced
cold $50 degrees Fahrenheit.-and her
metlc sealing. This accomplished. the
body was left in vault under the
laboratory. and the professor proceed
ed with his experiments for resusci-
tation on the lower animals.
Time passed without any results suf-
fciently certain 10 warrant the pro
fessor In risking the life of his loved
one in cold storage.
Professor Swartz died without Civ.
ing up his secret, but he made provi.
sion for continuance Of his work
contingent upon certain happenings.
Recently the ground on which his lab.
oratory stood was sold for the purpose
Of erecting 200 story skyscraper upon
IT, In digging for the foundations the
workmen came upon a subcellar OF
vault fifty feet below the surface ir
which was a large glass mausoleum
Attached to 1t was notice to look In
the wall behind metal plate. There
was discovered paper stating that
the mausoleum contained the body OF
Muriel Anderson. supposed to have
died In 1855. Then followed a state.
ment giving the process for life preser.
walton and the results of Professor
Swartz's investigations with a view to
terminating bodies.
The find was reported to the owner
OF the property. and he summoned a
member of the corps of investigators
of the Institution For Scientific Re-
search. The mausoleum was removed
to the institution and the paper read
and discussed at meeting of its staff
OF Investigators. II at once appeared
that certain obstacles that had been in
the way of Professor Swartz had been
removed by recent discoveries made
at the Institution.
The first question discussed was
whether the body would be found upon
examination to have retained the germs
Of life for half century, but 1t was
agreed that this knowledge could only
be gained by the right process of re
animation. That process was under
discussion for several weeks with ev
cry effort to keep the secret Finally
DR.. Shnntunner, Phi. D.. l. S. dnvesti
gator in seiencel, presented a plan OF
procedure that captured the lnvestiga.
tors, and it was determined to put It
IN practice at once.
The glass sarcophagus was found to
contain water, but at temperature OF
las degrees minus. or in the solid
form. Its Introduction had been in
tended to show that water should be
introduced when resuscitation was com
menced: warmth was gradually intro
duced and with 1t infnitesimal quaint
ties Of oxygen and then little ordi
nary atmosphere.
The body resembled skeleton GOV
cred with leather, but under slow
process of the introduction Of air and
water a slight filling out was percepti
BILE. The latest microbe antiseptic was
used, and successfully. So slow was
the process that 1t was a week before
the watchers began to perceive the
slightest sign of living organism, and
even then there was no certainty con
cerning It.
II would be impossible for the unset.
entific mind to follow the various de
vices preventive Of danger applied by
the revivers. Results alone can be Civ
en-. Within ten days the body had as
sumed some degree Of roundness
There was still the pallor formerly sup
posed to indicate death. but now known
in some cases to indicate only a sus
pension Of the action Of the heart. The
first sign Of life was a slight tremor, at
which the resuscitators clasped one an
others hands in an ecstasy of hope.
1t was soon after this that the body
was removed from the sarcophagus
and placed in warm bed. The regior
about the heart was then alternately
elutched and released once In several
seconds to start the action of that OF.
gan. The arms were worked to and
fro to start respiration. A very small
quantity of food was administered.
On the eighteenth day while the re
suseitators were all present the lips
moved. and the single word adrian
was family spoken.
The scientists were delighted. But
their JOY was soon turned to disap
pointment Despite all effort and care
the signs of life died away and have
never returned It Is believed that
when consciousness returned II brought
with 1t the liability to mental distress
which we now know is the body's
greatest enemy. This produced the re
action.
A life held in suspense for years has
been temporarily restored. But what
are the conditions of this suspended
animation? Who knows?
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