EXTRAORDINARY THEORY.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 738, 17 November 1870, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY THEORY.

A distinguished Swedish chemist,

[)r Orusselbach, a professor of the University of Upsal, has come to the :onclueion that those Egyptian mum-

mies which are found in the ancient tombs on the Nile, in a complete state —that is to say, without having been deprived of their brains and entrails, like most mummies—are not embalmed at all, but " are really the bodies of individuals whose, life has been momentarily suspended, with the intention of restoring them at some future time, only the secret of preservation was lost." Professor Grusselbach adduces many proofs in support of his idea—amongst others, his experiments during the last ten years, which, he says, have always proved successful. He took a snake, and treated it in such a manner as to benumb it as though it had been marble ; and it was so brittle that, had he allowed it to fall, it would have broken into fragments. In this state he kept it for several years, and then restored it to life by sprinkling it with stimulating fluid, the composition of which is a secret. For fifteen years the snake has been undergoing existence composed of successive deaths and resurrections, apparently without sustaining harm. The Professor is reported to have sent a petition to the Government, requesting that a .criminal who has been condemned to death may be given to him tobejtreated the same way-as the snake, promising to restore him to life again m two years. It is understood that the man undergoing this experiment is to be pardoned. Of course, if a man can be in a state of suspended animation for two years, he may be kept two thousand years; and if the Professor succeeds, we can lay up a few speciment of our contemporaries for exhibition in the thirty-ninth century.—" Appleton's Journal."