Show I J I TIO I rUE rill long sought art of prese Ing fag the human buman form torm after death drath in pearly nearly lifelike aspect has apparently apparent ly Iy been buen achieved In a II scientific c method meth od developed b by an expert embalmer embalm embalm- er wao as a a. In this field ha has devoted years rears of ot and patient investigation to th the work says saya It H. H 0 C O. O Folger olger In the tho May Mal Pou- Pou ular Mechanics The method not only promises to afford a means of perpetuating the tho Illustrious dead deadmore more successfully fully than the Egyptian mummies but offers otters for forthe forthe the disposition o of tb tha ibe dead deal III bl I sanitary sanItary sani sanI- sanitary tary ways waya that Introduce non nan of ot the objection tf of f ordinary burial method nor of cremation As in many other modern inventions electricity plays the leading part in the apparatus wherein the body is and dehydrated beyond the point where the organisms that cause decomposition decomposition tion tion can exist The apparatus apparatus' which has been as assembled assembled assembled as- as at small cost coat by the inventor himself has the outward appearance oo of a a. sarcophagus and and c consists of a chamber which receives a rolling copper copper copper cop cop- per table upon which the bod body is placed This table forms one terminal al at for the contact with the body and the other terminal consists of a number of contacts made on the upper up upper up- up per surface of the body When the circuit is closed an electric current curren passes through the body at many different points s setting up ing action due to the trie heat produced by the resistance offered by the body and an electrolytic action that tha reduces the moisture It It is possible that the sterilization I is assisted by bythe bythe bythe the breaking up of saline solutions solution into chlorine and caustic soda both active sterilization agents Electric Electric- resistance units p placed aced below the th table in the chamber supply additional addition addition- al al heat and an exhaust fan changes change the atmosphere in the chamber a at regular intervals The electrical con devices provide for regulation o othe of the temperature temp and current by means of red signal lights and an alarm bell as well as recording in in- in The success of the method method meth meth- od oil is attested by experiments performed performed per per- formed upon dogs dogs' and cats and by bya a test upon the body of a man who was WIlS the victim of of ofa a bullet |