SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 5, 22 August 1911, Page 3

SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

Professor Raoul Pictet, of Geneva, who is visiting Paris, has, in an inter view, made some remarkable statements as to the possibility of suspended life. Ho declares dial ho has been able to preserve tiorwn lisir for three months, when they seemed to have oil life in them exc.nct, and yet, when reduced to their normal temperature after such a long lapse of time, life returned to them, and they moved about as freely as before. His method is very simple. After keeping some touch and other freshwater fish in water at a temperature of 32deg. Fahrenheit for one night, ho gradually diminished the temperature until it was 4deg. All die water in the basin in which the n?h wore kept was thus frozen, and the fish, of course, wore also frozen into the block of ice. When some of them were taken out of the block they broke up into hits like pieces of ice. At the end of three months he allowed the ice to melt, and the tisli that remained swam about and gave all the usual signs of being as much alive as ever, the vital principle as long as no essential organ was deteriorated, having simply been suspended.