BRUTAL EXPERIMENTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 3 (Supplement)

BRUTAL EXPERIMENTS.

So much hag been said about tho theory a3 to tho continuaneo of lifo in tho head which has bees guillotined, that wo hesitato, says a contemporary, to roeur to tho subject. Dr. Bertram made experiments on throo cats. Ho took one of theso animal? and with tho Btroka of a hatchet cut off its head. To tho lower extremity of tho larynx ho immediately applied an india-rubber tube, which communicated with an enormous bellows. A awift current of air is driven through tho larynx, and tho consequent vibration of tho vocal cords produces a certain note. Whilo this noto is issuing for.tb. Dr. Bertrand proceeds amiably to pinch tho cat'a nose, and to thrust a red hot iron into ono of its eyes. Tho noto instantly change.-', and bocomes moro liko tho voice of a whole live cat yelling in pain. Tho doctor argues that tho cat cannot be dead, because death implies tho extinction of sensibility aud mobility. From oats also ho argues to mea. The head of a person decapitated, ho says, moves in all manner of bideons contortions. Tho month, almost changing its position, seems to snoor and to protest against tho eentenco of tho law. The jaws contract. Tho teeth grind. This may last for five hours, aocording to tho age, sex, and character of tlss patient.