1 86 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



which acts upon the nerves, and they act upon the 

 senses. In this way animals are often frightened 

 to death without physical violence. The sense 

 of nausea may be excited through the sense of 

 sight. And by strong mental emotion vomiting 

 may sometimes be produced. 



If there is a pain anywhere in the body it 

 may be intensely increased by thinking about it or 

 diminished by a diversion of the thoughts from it. 

 The history of martyrdom supplies a multitude 

 of instances which perfectly demonstrate the power 

 of the soul over the body. A certain Christian 

 martyr told his friends he would lift his hands 

 over his head just before death as a token of the 

 triumph of his soul over the body. In the midst of 

 the flames, the power of speech gone, the flesh all 

 crisp so that his friends thought him dead, he sud- 

 denly lifted up both hands and clasped them to- 

 gether three times. 



We read of a cruel anatomist who opened the 

 abdomen of a dog, and while she lay in the most 

 pitiful tortures offered her one of her young pup- 

 pies, which she immediately began to lick and to 

 talk to in her own language, and for the time 

 seemed insensible to her pain. On the puppy's be- 



