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Show IT IS STATED on the highest authority that when certain metals are brought by boiling to a stated high degree of heat, the naked flesh of human beings unreadable line] without any ill effects following, several tests have been made in public with success. But a man named Severance, down Minnesota developed the starting theory that a man's hand could be held harmlessly in boiling water, if placed there while the water was cold, and attempted to make a practical demonstration of the truth of his assertion. Luckily for himself, he made the experiment with only one finger, for otherwise his whole hand instead of a finger would have required amputation. |
