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As it is obvious that Mr. A. H. Hulk is unacquainted with the facts of what he designates a “well-known Indian trick,” and as the matter is one of considerable physiological interest, I think it well to place before your readers the nature of the evidence which satisfied me of the genuineness of this condition, when I referred to it in the fourth edition of my “Human Physiology,” published thirty-two years ago—a reference retained by the present editor of that treatise. This evidence had been obtained by Mr. Braid from Indian sources, and published by him in a collected form in 1850, the greater part of it having previously appeared in the pages of the Lancet. The most important feature of it was the testimony of British medical officers who witnessed the exhumation—most explicitly given in at least three distinct cases—to the corpse-like condition of the buried man, a condition which could not be simulated.
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CARPENTER, W. Human Hibernation. Nature 31, 408 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031408b0
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