A REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 10 April 1883, Page 2

A REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT.

An American paper contains the following ; —“ Dr. Lancaster, what on earth are you doing ? ” said a Whig reporter to the physician at the City Alms House, as that gentleman was found administering a big dose of chloroform to an old barnyard rooster in the hospital dispensary. “ Why, sir, this is the rooster season, and I am going to show that both politicians and roosters without heads can live in this free country,” and the doctor went to work carefully with his fine instruments «and took off the bird’s head just above the cass, and cautiously gathered up the muscles, arteries, and veins, and applied chemicals to prevent tho flow of blood. Into the neck of the biped he placed a glass tube —a channel through which to introduce food into tho craw—and then put the bird into a box covered with cloth, with a hole in the centre for the headless neck to go through. “In a fow hours,” the doctor said “ this chicken will walk around with steady stop, a brainless agent, without sight, thought, or feeling.” And, sure enough, the doctor was right. At 5 p.m. the chanticleer was walking about the floor of the dispensary with no care as to the result of the election or as to where or when he would get the next meal.—There is no penalty for refusing to believe this. Should it turn out to be a faithful record, Dr Lancaster can earn a lot of money in New Zealand by decapitating those roosters whose chief end of existence seems to be crowing all night and gardening all day.