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Show STOPS JUST SHORT OF DEATH Russian Scientist Asserts He Can Freeze the Human Body and Afterward Aft-erward Restore Animation. Whether it will bo posslblo In tho futuro for a man to place his family in a etate of anabiosis so that thoy will bo no expense to him whllo ho happens to bo out of a Job or in need of diverting divert-ing his Income from Its usual courso of expenditure for n limited period la a question that arises in connection with tho experiments of Professor Dachmctlof, tho Russian scientist, in the extension of anabiosis to tho higher high-er organisms. Anabiosis, a otato in which all vital factions aro suspended without occasioning occa-sioning death, has been known for about 200 years, according to tho Scientific American, but only in tho lower organisms. If Professor Bach-motlef's Bach-motlef's experiments aro 6uccessful It, will bo shown that tho higher organisms organ-isms Including men, aro also capable cf entering into this state. Both In the world of sclenco and in that of material mate-rial affairs tho successful outcomo of these experiments would bo rovolutlon-ary. rovolutlon-ary. Professor Bachmetlof Is conducting conduct-ing them especially with a view to making ma-king them of practical ubo in tho treatment of tuborculosls, and ho also expects that thoy will bo of great valuo in dovolping a process whereby nni-mnls nni-mnls could bo transported to considerable consider-able dlstanco and restored to llfo whonevor required. This would bo of lmmenso valuo in tho riiarketo of tho world. Professor Bachmetlof first experimented experi-mented on insects and found that whllo tho .humors of Insect bodies .freeze nt flvo 'degrees centigrade, and all vital functions become Impossible at this temperature, death occurs only al ten degrees. Betweon tho temperature at which tho vital functions cease and tho lethal temperaturo Is tho stato of anabiosis ana-biosis tho intermediary condition bo-tween bo-tween llfo and death. After a considerable consid-erable tlmo, Professor Bachmetlof found, It was posslblo to rcstoro animals ani-mals to llfo from this stato by a gradual grad-ual riso in temperaturo. |