The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-22

through psychic influences in man are fire.
ouentiy found in India, where some religious
aScetlcs are stated upon unmpeachahle author
ltH. 10 possess the power OF throwing them
selves into IA state closely resembling my ana
biotic coma for indefinite period One was
mat OF 'fakir. who in my presence was buried
alive at Lahore in 1907 He was eXhumed and
restored to life after remaining in the ground
Tor three weeks. the grave being guarded BY
my experts and every precaution taken TO pre-
vent any interference with the body"
Tho Russian Imperial Society Of Scientific
research Immediately made experiments with
Professor ltahmeticif's preparation and invited
me TO attend the Official experiments as one of
the experts \ dog cat. pig, horse and
q monkey were selected for the experiments
by the Jury and placed in a chamber OF the
necessary temperature and fed with the prep.
aration The result was that after taking il for
week all the animals fell into state of arti.
hcial Information. The symptoms that they
showed were very interesting
The first significant symptom was that they
all lost control OF their temperature regulating
mechanism and acquired all the characteristics
OF coldDlooded animals-that is instead a.
having body maintaining its regular tom.
perature their temperature became about the
same as the surrounding media AS this rose
or fell, so did that of the animal
The second remarkable symptom was that
the heart beats became as low as sixteen per
minute. while in the normal state ii was one
hundred or over. by applying stethosconc tn
the chest of an animal in state OF "anabotic
coma the experts made the observation that
nv SouIu Vi lHc HedFI peat cOulQ be heard.
Most OF the animals did not give single
respiration Tor ten minutes Then they took
from ten to fifteen breaths and again relapsed
INTO state OF quiescence for a period of sew
eral minutes when the spasmodic respiratory
act again occurred. The same animals when
IN 4 normal state, breathed eighty or more
reSpirations minute. The amount OF oxygen
taken by all OF them very small For this
reason q small cold storage chamber could lac
easily filed with animals whose lie was s,ls
PENDED.
The blood of all Of the animals during This
state had an arterial hue--brght red-in the
veins. but vcnous color in the arteries IN.
DER the microscope it showed the most pecu.
mar condition and lacked absolutely the smell
III resi- blood. Experiments with poison proved
tnat injections OF pilocarpn, apomorphin and
Sti.ychnin--the most deadly posons usually
mad no effect mt all upon the sleeping animals
The poisoning effects showed themselves ONLY
upon the dog after il was awakened An in.
lection Of tetanus toxin in the pig, which would
nave killed it in its normal state immediately
produced only state of increased torpidty
The animals were kept in this chamber two
weeks and then awakened. They had lost only
~ much Of their weights they would have
lost during fasting of three days. Otherwise
they became absolutely normal and continued
their life as ii nothing had happened
The result OF this experiment was convincing
10 the scientists that Professor Bahmetiefr's