LIVING A MONTH WITH A SEVERED HEAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 66, 19 April 1881, Page 4

LIVING A MONTH WITH A SEVERED HEAD.

♦■■ . . . We have,h,^ard of- tho. marvellous American' cock which lived as well wliMMUrtj »&*«# mAl'T^ »fct:{ .. iffe h^av^th.© case of ft mau who has ' lived for,: ruornffchan a month wjth i Iwa4 a^ifxf n^ severed from" the | trunk, and this time the story, is too •* i^^l^R^ated to be disbelieved. $ha> fep- iM\ A■' S £ P™Vsis!W ' j&ms aulej^^ucfe; $$$»%. some groans .wei* . nea*^ . proceeding ! from his lodgings in Pans, »nd when I . s»pk^ ,ppep . tHo door . Jhey ofound him stretohed on the , floor weltering h^^hisrblood, and; bis ' head almost ..4fitached from his <to§?A iftljen^ed to (jommit . auicide, and with this object cut hia throat with a razor. ' 13ut h^ had failedito achieve his purpose, for still . h% < breathed, and w*% conveyed to St. Antoine Hospital. To everyone's amazement he .was still alive when hp (t^aQb^d ,xhl«f^destiimtiQn, and, 1 what is yefc^prei surprising. Tie lived for more tlfaXa .'moatH after his entrance. His head was only held to the trunk by a thread,, and, the medical men who attended him consider the prolongation of his life " during nearly feve wfeeks as nothing less A than, phenomenal. Food was administered' to hiih by means of a sort of funnel. Duiiug these weeks lie stirviVed he retained all his faculties, aa4 f seemed to be perfectly, free from pain to the last, dying without a struggle. The body of this remarkable patient ,was handed over to the Faculty of Medicine for exain-ination.-3-EngJish paper. . ,;