Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — GIVES LIFE TO THE DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIVES LIFE TO THE DEAD.

Indiana Pkyalcian Discovers the Principle of Existence. Dr. C. W. Littlefield, of Alexandria. Ind., has discovered the principle of life and is capable of restoring life to

animals which ordinary tests proved to be dead. The doctor has revivified time and again files which have been dead from half an hour to a day. Asphyxiation. drowning and oMb e r means of death have been resorted to in his experiments, and so long

as the organism of the Insect or animal was unbroken or not destroyed revivification was successful in every instance. Beginning with the lower organisms, such -as files and bumblebees, be has ascended with his experiments until be has succeeded in bringing to life mice, rats and cats which were to all ordinary- tests dead. Recently a cat was chloroformed and atferward immersed in water for twenty minutes, after which it was covered with the magnetic powder which Dr, Littlefield says contains the properties of the atmosphere which sustain life—magnetism. Within eight minutes the eat was anxious to get away and was as lively as it was before chloroformed and “drowned." The theory was severely tried during the winter months, when a boy was under the ice for fortyfive minutes, and then without treatment for almost the remainder of the hour. A slight attempt at artificial restoration of respiration commonly used in such cases was resorted to. Then Dr. Littlefield and his discovery were called into requisition. Within an hour the boy revived and is to-day living. According to the doctor's theory the principle which we call life exists everywhere. It will not enter into chemical action and .combination with other elements and form new compounds, nor is it the result of chemical action or the union of any definite number or kinds of compounds. It can neither be created nor destroyed. It can be excluded from • the organic body and then be coaxed to return in all Its fullness and completeness. This life principle is abundantly diffused throughout space abd needs only the proper media to cause It to objectively manifest Itself. It is, as he believes, the underlying first clans of all things physical and manifests itself as a volatile magnetism. “This leads me,” he says, “to believe that this life principle exists at all times and is coexistent with creation. Therefore when the Bible tells us that God breathed Into mau’s nostrils the breath of life it states a more profound fact than we havs heretofore been able to appreciate.”

DR. LITTLEFIELD.