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Show Testing Death. A new and very simple method of distinguishing between be-tween real and apparent death has been recently discovered by M. La-bordc. La-bordc. When a sharp steel needle not cased only with steel is driven into the tissues of a living man or animal, ani-mal, in a short time it loses its metallic luster and becomes dim or, in scientific scien-tific languace, is oxidized; while a smaller needle may remain for an hour or more in the tissues of a dead subject sub-ject wilhout undergoing any apparent change. Hence the oxidation or non-oxidation non-oxidation of the needle affords a decisive de-cisive proof whether death is real or only apparent, Er. |