A HORRIBLE EXPERIMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1249, 7 October 1884, Page 3

A HORRIBLE EXPERIMENT.

The Par's correspondent of the Daily News telegiapns : The last canine martyrdom to science operated by M. Brown Sequard was of a peculiarly sensational character. That experimenter wanted to see whether life, after a violent death, is susceptible of being recalled in an animal killed in a healthy state. He therefore beheaded a dog familiar with his voice. The blood of another dog was beforehand prepared to be transfused into the arteries of the head. No sooner was it injected than the inert head became animated, the eyes opened, and on the professor calling the dog by his name, an attempt was made to answer by a carressing look. When the arterial blood was exhausted life disappeared. This painful experiment was suggested by one made by Dr Laborde on Campi’s head an hour an a half after execution, and when, presumably, the cerebral matter had greatly lost excitability. Nevertheless, when arterial blood was injected into the head, the mouth appeared to take a living character, the eyelids were raised, the pupils contracted when light was flashed upon them, and by an orifie in the skull it was seen that circulation was momentarily established in the intellectual convolutions. Mr Laborde wanted to operate oo Campi’s head directly it fell into the basket, but the rule in virtue of which a Christian burin] was gone through at the Camp deNavets Cemetery, stood in his way.