Nibor removed him from the bath as soon as the skin, which was filled
out sooner than the other tissues, began to assume a whitish tinge and
wrinkle slightly. They kept him until the evening of the 16th in this
humid room, where they arranged an apparatus which, from time to time,
occasioned a fine rain of a temperature of thirty-seven and a half
degrees. A new bath was given in the evening. During the night, the
body was enveloped in flannel, but kept constantly in the same steaming
atmosphere.

On the morning of the 17th, after a third bath of an hour and a half,
the general characteristics of the figure and the proportions of the
body presented their natural aspect: one would have called it a sleeping
man. Five or six curious persons were admitted to see it, among others
the colonel of the 23d. In the presence of these witnesses, M. Nibor
moved successively all the joints, and demonstrated that they had
recovered their flexibility. He gently kneaded the limbs, trunk and
abdomen. He partly opened the lips, and separated the jaws, which were
quite firmly closed, and saw that the tongue had returned to its
ordinary size and consistency. He also partly opened the eyelids: the
eye-balls were firm and bright.

"Gentlemen," said the philosopher, "these are indications which do not
deceive; I prophesy success. In a few hours you shall witness the first
manifestations of life."

"But," interrupted one of the bystanders, "why not immediately?"

"Because the _conjunctivae_ are still a little paler than they ought to
be. But the little veins traversing the whites of the eyes have already
assumed a very encouraging appearance. The blood is almost entirely
restored. What is the blood? Red globules floating in serum, or a sort
of whey. The serum in poor Fougas was dried up in his veins; the water
which we have gradually introduced by a slow endosmose has saturated the
albumen and fibrin of the serum, which is returned to the liquid state.
The red globules which desiccation had agglutinated, had become
motionless like ships stranded in shoal water. Now behold them afloat
again: they thicken, swell, round out their edges, detach themselves
from each other and prepare to circulate in their proper channels at the
first impulse which shall be given them by the contractions of the
heart."

"It remains to see," said M. Renault, "whether the heart will put itself
in motion. In a living man, the heart moves under the impulse of the
b