,,advanced ,,chemistry ,by ,,jack ,g4 ,,huekels ,there is a lot of entertainment and also a great deal of truth in this story4 ,we recommend it highly4 ,professor ,carbonic was diligently at work in his spacious laboratory1 analyzing1 mixing and experimenting4 ,he had been employed for more than fifteen years in the same pursuit of happiness1 in the same house1 same laboratory1 and attended by the same servant woman1 who in her long period of service had attained the plumpness and respectability of two hundred and ninety pounds4 ,illustration3 ,the electric current lighted up everything in sight6 ,mag ,nesia1 called the professor4 ,the servant's name was ,maggie ,nesia--,professor ,carbonic had contracted the title to save time1 for in fifteen years he had not mounted the heights of greatness2 he must work harder and faster as life is short1 and eliminate such shameful waste of time as putting the gie on ,maggie4 ,mag ,nesia6 the professor repeated4 ,the old woman rolled slowly into the room4 ,get rid of these and bring the one the boy brought today4 ,he handed her a tray containing three dead rats1 whose brains had been subjected to analysis4 ,yes1 ,marse1 answered ,mag ,nesia in a tone like citrate4 ,the professor busied himself with a new preparation of zinc oxide and copper sulphate and sal ammoniac1 his latest concoction1 which was about to be used and1 like its predecessors1 to be abandoned4 ,mag ,nesia appeared bringing another rat1 dead4 ,the professor made no experiments on live animals4 ,he had hired a boy in the neighborhood to bring him fresh dead rats at twenty-five cents per head4 ,taking the tray he prepared a hypodermic filled with the new preparation4 ,carefully he made an incision above the right eye of the carcass through the bone4 ,he lifted the hypodermic1 half hopelessly1 half expectantly4 ,the old woman watched him1 as she had done many times before1 with always the same pitiful expression4 ,pitiful1 either for the man himself or for the dead rat4 ,mag ,nesia seldom expressed her views4 ,inserting the hypodermic needle and injecting the contents of the syringe1 ,professor ,carbonic stepped back4 ,prof4 ,carbonic ,makes a ,great ,discovery ,great ,saints6 ,his voice could have been heard a mile4 ,slowly the rat's tail began to point skyward2 and as slowly ,mag ,nesia began to turn white4 ,professor ,carbonic stood as paralyzed4 ,the rat trembled and moved his feet4 ,the man of sixty years made one jump with the alacrity of a boy of sixteen1 he grabbed the enlivened animal1 and held it high above his head as he jumped about the room4 ,spying the servant1 who until now had seemed unable to move1 he threw both arms around her1 bringing the rat close to her face4 ,around the laboratory they danced to the tune of the woman's shrieks4 ,the professor held on1 and the woman yelled4 ,up and down spasmodically on the laboratory floor came the two hundred and ninety pounds with the professor thrown in4 ,bottles tumbled from the shelves4 ,furniture was upset4 ,precious liquids flowed unrestrained and unnoticed4 ,finally the professor dropped with exhaustion and the rat and ,mag ,nesia made a dash for freedom4 ,early in the morning pedestrians on ,arlington ,avenue were attracted by a sign in brilliant letters4 ,professor ,carbonic early in the morning betook himself to the nearest hardware store and purchased the tools necessary for his new profession4 ,he was an ,m4,d4 and his recently acquired knowledge put him in a position to startle the world4 ,having procured what he needed he returned home4 99 99 99 99 99 ,things were developing fast4 ,mag ,nesia met him at the door and told him that ,sally ,soda1 who was known to the neighborhood as ,sal or ,sal ,soda generally1 had fallen down two flights of stairs1 and to use her own words was ,putty bad4 ,sal ,soda's mother1 in sending for a doctor1 had read the elaborate sign of the new enemy of death1 and begged that he come to see ,sal as soon as he returned4 ,bidding ,mag ,nesia to accompany him1 he went to the laboratory and secured his precious preparation4 ,professor ,carbonic and the unwilling ,mag ,nesia started out to put new life into a little ,sal ,soda who lived in the same block4 ,reaching the house they met the family physician then attendant on little ,sal4 ,doctor ,x4 ,ray had also read the sign of the professor and his greeting was very chilly4 ,how is the child8 asked the professor4 ,fatally hurt and can live but an hour4 ,then he added1 ,i have done all that can be done4 ,all that you can do1 corrected the professor4 ,with a withering glance1 ,doctor ,x4 ,ray left the room and the house4 ,his reputation was such as to admit of no intrusion4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i am sorry she is not dead1 it would be easier to work1 and also a more reasonable charge4 ,giving ,mag ,nesia his instruments he administered a local anesthetic2 this done he selected a brace and bit that he had procured that morning4 ,with these instruments he bored a small hole into the child's head4 ,inserting his hypodermic needle1 he injected the immortal fluid1 then cutting the end off a dowel1 which he had also procured that morning1 he hammered it into the hole until it wedged itself tight4 ,professor ,carbonic seated himself comfortably and awaited the action of his injection1 while the plump ,mag ,nesia paced or rather waddled the floor with a bag of carpenter's tools under her arm4 ,the fluid worked4 ,the child came to and sat up4 ,sal ,soda had regained her pep4 ,it will be one dollar and twenty-five cents1 ,mrs4 ,soda1 apologized the professor4 ,i have to make that charge as it is so inconvenient to work on them when they are still alive4 ,having collected his fee1 the professor and ,mag ,nesia departed1 amid the ever rising blessings of the ,soda family4 99 99 99 99 99 ,at #c3cj ,p4,m4 ,mag ,nesia sought her employer1 who was asleep in the sitting room4 ,marse ,paul1 a gentleman to see you4 ,the professor awoke and had her send the man in4 ,the man entered hurriedly1 hat in hand4 ,are you ,professor ,carbonic8 ,i am1 what can ,i do for you8 ,can you----8 the man hesitated4 ,my friend has just been killed in an accident4 ,you couldn't---- he hesitated again4 ,i know that it is unbelievable1 answered the professor4 ,but ,i can4 99 99 99 99 99 ,professor ,carbonic for some years had suffered from the effects of a weak heart4 ,his fears on this score had recently been entirely relieved4 ,he now had the prescription--,death no more6 ,the startling discovery1 and the happenings of the last twenty-four hours had begun to take effect on him1 and he did not wish to make another call until he was feeling better4 ,i'll go1 said the professor after a period of musing4 ,my discoveries are for the benefit of the human race1 ,i must not consider myself4 ,he satisfied himself that he had all his tools4 ,he had just sufficient of the preparation for one injection2 this1 he thought1 would be enough2 however1 he placed in his case1 two vials of different solutions1 which were the basis of his discovery4 ,these fluids had but to be mixed1 and after the chemical reaction had taken place the preparation was ready for use4 ,he searched the house for ,mag ,nesia1 but the old servant had made it certain that she did not intend to act as nurse to dead men on their journey back to life4 ,reluctantly he decided to go without her4 ,how is it possible6 exclaimed the stranger1 as they climbed into the waiting machine4 ,i have worked for fifteen years before ,i found the solution1 answered the professor slowly4 ,i cannot understand on what you could have based a theory for experimenting on something that has been universally accepted as impossible of solution4 ,with electricity1 all is possible2 as ,i have proved4 ,seeing the skeptical look his companion assumed1 he continued1 ,electricity is the basis of every motive power we have2 it is the base of every formation that we know4 ,the professor was warming to the subject4 ,go on1 said the stranger1 ,i am extremely interested4 ,every sort of heat that is known1 whether dormant or active1 is only one arm of the gigantic force electricity4 ,the most of our knowledge of electricity has been gained through its offspring1 magnetism4 ,a body entirely devoid of electricity1 is a body dead4 ,magnetism is apparent in many things including the human race1 and its presence in many people is prominent4 ,but how did this lead to your experiments8 ,if magnetism or motive force1 is the offspring of electricity1 the human body must1 and does contain electricity4 ,that we use more electricity than the human body will induce is a fact2 it is apparent therefore that a certain amount of electricity must be generated within the human body1 and without aid of any outside forces4 ,science has known for years that the body's power is brought into action through the brain4 ,the brain is our generator4 ,the little cells and the fluid that separate them1 have the same action as the liquid of a wet battery2 like a wet battery this fluid wears out and we must replace the fluid or the sal ammoniac or we lose the use of the battery or body4 ,i have discovered what fluid to use that will produce the electricity in the brain cells which the human body is unable to induce4 ,we are here1 said the stranger as he brought the car to a stop at the curb4 ,you are still a skeptic1 noting the voice of the man4 ,but you shall see shortly4 ,the man led him into the house and introduced him to ,mrs4 ,murray ,attic1 who conducted him to the room where the deceased ,murray ,attic was laid4 ,without a word the professor began his preparations4 ,he was ill1 and would have preferred to have been at rest in his own comfortable house4 ,he would do the work quickly and get away4 99 99 99 99 99 ,selecting a gimlet1 he bored a hole through the skull of the dead man2 inserting his hypodermic he injected all the fluid he had mixed4 ,he had not calculated on the size of the gimlet and the dowels he carried would not fit the hole4 ,as a last resource he drove in his lead pencil1 broke it off close1 and carefully cut the splinters smooth with the head4 ,it will be seventy-five cents1 madam1 said the professor as he finished the work4 99 99 99 99 99 ,mrs4 ,murray ,attic paid the money unconsciously2 she did not know whether he was embalming her husband or just trying the keenness of his new tools4 ,the death had been too much for her4 ,the minutes passed and still the dead man showed no signs of reviving4 ,professor ,carbonic paced the floor in an agitated manner4 ,he began to be doubtful of his ability to bring the man back4 ,worried1 he continued his tramp up and down the room4 ,his heart was affecting him4 ,he was tempted to return the seventy-five cents to the prostrate wife when--,,the ,,dead ,,man ,,moved6 ,the professor clasped his hands to his throat1 and with his head thrown back dropped to the floor4 ,a fatal attack of the heart4 ,he became conscious quickly4 ,the bottles there1 he whispered4 ,mix--1 make injection4 ,he became unconscious again4 ,the stranger found the gimlet and bored a hole in the professor's head1 hastily seizing one of the vials1 he poured the contents into the deeply made hole4 ,he then realized that there was another bottle4 ,mix them6 shrieked the almost hysterical woman4 ,it was too late1 the one vial was empty1 and the professor's body lay lifeless4 ,in mental agony the stranger grasped the second vial and emptied its contents also into the professor's head1 and stopped the hole with the cork4 ,miraculously ,professor ,carbonic opened his eyes1 and rose to his feet4 ,his eyes were like balls of fire2 his lips moved inaudibly1 and as they moved little blue sparks were seen to pass from one to another4 ,his hair stood out from his head4 ,the chemical reaction was going on in the professor's brain1 with a dose powerful enough to restore ten men4 ,he tottered slightly4 ,murray ,attic1 now thoroughly alive1 sat up straight in bed4 ,he grasped the brass bed post with one hand and stretched out the other to aid the staggering man4 ,he caught his hand2 both bodies stiffened2 a slight crackling sound was audible2 a blue flash shot from where ,attic's had made contact with the bed post2 then a dull thud as both bodies struck the floor4 ,both men were electrocuted1 and the formula is still a secret4 ,,the ,,end ,transcriber's ,note3 ,this etext was produced from ,amazing ,stories ,april #aief and was first published in ,amazing ,stories ,march #aibg4 ,extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the ,u4,s4 copyright on this publication was renewed4 ,minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note4