A STRANGE STORY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 282, 26 June 1873, Page 7

A STRANGE STORY.

A strange story comes from Paris. A German professor — the nationality is to be noted — begged two condemned Communists named Dodu and Brun from M. Theirs, in order that he might as a scientific experiment, kill them and bring them to life again at the end of three months after death. His plan was to inject solution of calx in the system, by which decomposition was to be prevented ; and according to his theory, the patient might be revived, not only at the end of three months 1 , but of 300 years, according to desire. In the presence of medical men and public functionaries, the professor, having administered chloroform to each of the men, injected the solution, and then bled them till they died. The corpses were then ctessicated by the heat of furnaces till they shrivelled, and till the skin became yellow, like leather. In this state they remained in a moderate temperature for the prescribed three months, and the process of revivification began by injecting the blood of two healthy laborers, and by the application of the galvanic battery. The process completely failed in the case of Dodu. But in that of Brun, the result was, to say the least, s in-

prising. First, the opaque eyeballs rolled in their yellow sockets, tho muscles licg.ui to twitch, thp l»oart to beat; and at last, after fourteen hours of treatuipni, 13 run spoke, rosf (Vow the table, swallowed a bowl of beef tea and several ounces of brandy, and audibly complained of soreness in the limbs, and of pains in the regions that had rested on the table. He is nowalive and well in Switzerland, under the assumed name of Foube, while a " post mortem " examination showed that fatty degeneration of the heart had prevented the revival of Dodu. So any one who wishes to see how the world looks a • hundred years hence, has only to apply solution of calx, and to leave word when he is to be called. It is singular that the history of so important a scientific discovery made so near home should have reached us via New York and Louisville, Georgia. But as everybody knows, it is to America that we must always look for the very earliest information about everything, more particularly inexplicable nonsense.