WEIGHT OF A SOUL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 139, 18 July 1914, Page 3

WEIGHT OF A SOUL.

, Dr. Duncan McDougall, of Haycrhin, Massachusetts, "Announces that he has Succeeded- in '" weighing a human soul, which -he' "certifies amounts "to„ three- ' quarters *>f an ounce.\ • V, /The jio&tor experimented dyings r ~ patient, virhose.bed was placed on a delif k cately balanced platfom of beam,;aealesj ? wh Ue the doctor observed -him fpr thi;ee hours and forty minutes until dekth oc- - curred. \ -•• . . - . v ,r . 4 .-; l Dr McDougall says: "The dying mam ; ' : lost.. weight at the rate,of an : ounce per hour, due to evaporation" oJ V ; moisture in respiration and evaporation " of sweat. At the end of three hours and forty minutes he expired, 'and sudde6ljfi: coincident with death t£fe bean) - end of the machine dropped with an audible stroke, hittingVagainsii •" H the I lower limiting bar and remaining there without rebound. * i '' The loss was ascertained to lie three- n quarters of an ounce, and this loss not l>e due to evaporating or respirating .. . moisture and sweat, because that had already been determined at the rate .of • one-sixteenth of an ounce per minute. This last loss was sudden and . large—-three-quarters of an ounce In a few seconds." : . \ •