| Show A IT TRAGEDY OF SCIENCE A terrible Experiment Which resulted in a students an arizona correspondent oatlie new york times tells an interest ing story of Heidelburg two students who were fired with an ambition to discover tho hidden sources of life their names were gattaino Gaa taino and destroy their theory was that researches into the cause of animal heat would reveal the secret to them the correspondent says much learning it is said mabeth a man mad I 1 hav no doubt these two were mad mad as march hares the freedom and independence which each student in a german university enjoys made it easy enough for the two to prepare for the experiment in the wing of the ancient building half castle half ware houge where they lodged were certain old vaults or cellars partly underground one of these was selected and fitted up for menters argued that to render jhc test conclusive the sources of animal heat must be cut ofT asfar as possible in the subject oney of these source sit was believed was combustion or the chemical changes taking place in the food after it enters the body another external warmth and a third though a slight one the ex exercise ercse of the body the first source could not be wholly cutoff except in starvation and that was not desirable the character of the food could however be altered so that the heat producing elements would be partially eliminated the external ext erual temperature could bo low cred to almost any degree desired and the body restrained but these steps were only secondary to the chief feature of the experiment which was nothing less than the gradual dulling of the blood through thus reducing the temperature of the body of the possibility of doing this I 1 have nothing to say that was the plan als two time fixed for the experiment they drew flotd to decide upon which one it should be performed the lot fell on troy an d he began at once the reg regi i of his iet the two mean BIU 1 thear preparation of the baute m vy was to bo performed natu rally cold the temperature was reduced by a system of lation andlee use of ice until the ther never registered above the freezing point an ice chest in which the temperature was much lower was prepared and in the center of the room a table furnished with bands by which the body could be firmly held all this work took time as the utmost care was used that there might be no detect in the apparatus when put to the test biest the experiment should bo interrupted the greatest secrecy was the day finally arrived the two students be that uman being except themselves knew of their plans ofira was their be lefin the of life under a lower internal temperature than had ever conceded possible that castaine Ga frequently expressed good fortune in to be the sub subject of the experiment on of living through the ordeal and forward to abe recording of his sensations alth eager interest been arranged that gas taine should by hia side continuously w ahching whatever changeat occurred and carefully noting them don when the temperature had reached a point below the minimum previously held to wethe ex to end catly mornion in winter when the two entered the vault only by aciro taper they made the dibal preparations shook handa warmly and destroy re moving hia out ou alie table Gasta inc bound him hand and foot both chatting merrily the meanwhile then castaine Ga connected with the ico chest a chort line of hose in a shield ahe shield was placed carefully over destroys DEsi roys a valve iu the hosu open od destroy drew into a draught of air colder by far th an that in the room in which tho two were air hey argued would through the jung caroe almost in contact to with the blood being separated from it by the thin membrane of the air calla only after wave would fill tho luned chilling their tissue and the blood circulating through it the blood through the body would carry with ita lowered temperature which would affect the tissues their to remotest jouit this was the theory which the two had evolved of destroys DEs troya sensations I 1 never uch descriptions he have effaced 1 from my memory my recollection la that thor first faw caused 0 greater a lunga then fol lowed a violent headache then a delicious languor then stupor in which he wag dimly conscious eliat eustaine Gu had raised the shield from his mouth then oblivion hours after when he recovered conscious ness he was in liis own room with doctors fellow students and nurses around him in the courtyard outside Gust alno lay dead when he saw destroy pass into a coma tose state he thought his friend was dead then he drove a knife into his own heart and fell across destroys body then tho student who suspected something wrong and had followed the two experimenters found them when aliey burst open alio door weeks afterward destroy was able to come to this country my father restored him to partial health but partial only he drifted around the world and finally settled in the country alie climate of which seemed to suit him |
