Show I SOME SOULS HAVE WEIGHT Interesting Experiments Conducted by Party of Noted Physicians in Massachusetts New York Tork March 11 Dr Duncan ski of Mass who Is at the he hea or of a research resea and and has had four other associated associated with him In a f series erles of experiments experiments experiments ments covering six years ears believes that the human soul has a definite weight which can be determined when it passes from the body at death accord accordIng according Ing to a Boston dispatch to the Times TIm s Dr MacDougall began by seeking s to learn if It the departure d of the soul soil s l from the la Is s attended by b any manifesta manifestations ma capable ot or being recorded by any physical means The method m thod finally resorted sorted r to was to place a dying din patient In bed upon one of the platforms of ora a pair pall of oC very er delicate scales made ex expressly pressly for the experiment lt and then to balance this weight with an equal weight wel ht on the opposite platform The scales were sensitive to a weight ot of less Jess than a 1 tenth of f an l l ounce In every case after death the platform opposite the theone theone theone one in which lay Ja the body of the sub subject subject jeet of the test fell felt suddenly Dr Mac MacDougall MacDougall MacDougall Dougall says and the figures figu eson on the dial index indicated a diminution of weight The first experiment was with a aman aman aman man dying of tuberculosis He expired watched by five physicians The In Instant Instant instant stant life lite ceased the opposite scale cale fell tell with startling suddenness Immediately all aU the usual deductions were made for tor the physical loss of weight and It was discovered that there was yet et a full fuU ounce unaccounted ed for The next subject was also als a victim of or tuberculosis and practically the same phenomena occurred Each of ot the five physicians made his own computation and th these se separate computations were compared They The showed an unaccountable loss 1088 in weight comparing the patients corpse with the body when wh n he be was alive Four other cases roses were carefully observed and in each It was found that a weight of from front to a full tun ounce departed from the body at the moment ot of disso dissolution dissolution lution |