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I DID not answer your correspondent's query on human hibernation in your issue of the 5th inst. (p. 316), because I thought some one better informed than myself would answer it. However, as no one has done so, I may as well give a solution of this well-known Indian trick which I have seen, but the authority for which, I am sorry to say, I cannot remember. It is very simple, like all these things are when you “know how they are done.” A tunnel is dug from the grave to the neighbouring jungle; the grave itself is partly prepared. The subject is then, in sight of the spectators, prepared, by having his ears and nostrils filled with wax, and his tongue turned back. He is then apparently buried, creeps through the tunnel, and gets away. After six months, or any other interval, he creeps back again, is dug up apparently lifeless, and restored with infinite pains. In some cases, I believe, a sentry has been placed over the grave, but, of course, without results.
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HULK, A. Human Hibernation. Nature 31, 361 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031361a0
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