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Credit: Observations on trance, or, Human hybernation [sic] / by James Braid. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![originally stipulated for. Military faith and courage, however, were by no means eqm] in this instance to that of the Brahmin, ami the soldier quailed whilst this enthusiast stood firm, urging the full term of the feat to be exhausted before the exhumation should take place. The officer, however, would not consent to this, but insisted on the instant disinter- ment of the holy man ; and, moreover, by way of self-defence, in case the worst of his fears should be realised, he ordered the Chowdrie, in case the devotee was found to be really dead, instantly to have his body carried beyond the military territory. The more certainly to guard against all further mischance, my friend instantly ordered his horse and rode to the spot, that he might be an eye- witness of all the future proceedings. AVhen he arrived at the place, he found the grave surrounded by an immense crowd of Hindoos, all anxiously waiting to witness the result of this exhumation or resurrection of their sainted brother. The Chowdrie having arrived also, orders were instantly given to remove the earth and drag forth the body of the holy man. To the horror of our military friend, forfh it came, wrapped in its camel-hair coverlet, on re- moving which, he found the body cold and niiY as a munmiy. When he had satisfied himself of this by personal examination, both by sight and touch, he felt assured that his fate was sealed, that his commission would be lost, and himself implicated in the murder of this religious enthusiast. There was yet one hope, although to him apparently a foriorn one, that the Fakeer might be restored by the use of those means of restoration which two of the holy man's followers were about to apply, ac- cording to instructions which he had previously given to them. They began by rubbing some pre- paration over his head, eyes, and eye-brows, and alfo over the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, and were particularly assiduous of their ap- plication of it, and friction over the region of the C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21948252_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
