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The Man With The Broken Ear

CHAPTER X
12/18

But I shall be in no hurry to refill it: I am too much afraid of breaking it.
Before giving this gallant fellow a final bath, it will be necessary to knead all his organs again, to subject his abdomen to regular compressions, in order that the serous membranes of the stomach, chest and heart may be perfectly disagglutinated and capable of slipping on each other.

You are aware that the slightest tear in these parts, or the least resistance, would be enough to kill our subject at the moment of his revival." While speaking, he united example to precept and kept kneading the trunk of the Colonel.

As the spectators had too nearly filled the bath-room, making it almost impossible to move, M.Nibor begged them to move into the laboratory.

But the laboratory became so full that it was necessary to leave it for the parlor: the Committee of the Biological Society, had scarcely a corner of the table on which to draw up their account of the proceedings.

The parlor even was crowded with people, the dining room too, and so out to the court yard of the house.


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