The silver
cord was not for ever loosed, nor the golden bowl irreparably
broken. But where, meantime, was the soul?
Apart, however, from the inevitable conclusion, a priori that such
causes must produce such effects- that the well-known occurrence of
such cases of suspended animation must naturally give rise, now and
then, to premature interments- apart from this consideration, we
have the direct testimony of medical and ordinary experience to
prove that a vast number of such interments have actually taken place.
I might refer at once, if necessary to a hundred well authenticated
instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the
circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers,
occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore,
where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely-extended
excitement. The wife of one of the most respectable citizens-a
lawyer of eminence and a member of Congress- was seized with a
sudden and unaccountable illness, which completely baffled the skill
of her physicians. After much suffering she died, or was supposed to
die.
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