Chapter 10

''Thesis about the appearance of angels, demons and ghosts, as well as the appearance of vampires in Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (1746)''

Chapter 10

Different systems to explain the phenomenon VAMPIRE

Not so long ago in Paris, published a book - an essay Professor of the Paris Medical University Vinslu "Uncertainty signs of death and injury from hasty burial, with the addition of Doctor of Medicine Brugherio. In this essay can stay on the observation that many persons found dead and then buried for a long time lived in time when they assisted.
In April 1740 Professor Vinslu defended the thesis that the experiments of surgery more than anything else contributed to the discovery of little-known signs of questionable deaths. Many cases are known, wrote Vinslu when the signs of death are very questionable, and points at the same persons who are declared dead and buried, but, in time saved, long lived.
Dr. Brugherio completed this thesis scientists observations also indicate a view Vinslu. Then we use this book only suitable for our purpose, and quite authentic facts.
Dr. Herbert Mayo in the book "Truth in the popular superstition - in the letters" explains vampirism apparent death and fatal syncope. To indicate the cessation of vital activity, he uses the expression: a deadly swoon, deadly trance, or ecstasy. In that essay Mayo, the state of ecstasy and its various forms. He distinguishes ecstatic sleep and wakefulness ecstatic. Ecstasy, which expresses the total abnormal ratio between the heart and nervous system, has, to quote Mayo, its phase or the extent consistent with normal wakefulness in its natural state. Natural sleep is divided into three types: a deep, heavy sleep of exhaustion, strong, ordinary, healthy, deep sleep to light sleep still healthy and sick. Similarly, the ecstatic dream threefold: a deadly ecstasy; long ecstasy; beginning or initial ecstasy. But when in ecstasy, all the elements reach the limit of large size, the differences of three degrees of ecstatic sleep and peculiar to each of these phenomena Distinguish between increasing and are enhanced. The difference between the imaginary and ecstatic death Mayo explains: "In many cases of apparent death of the well-known deadly effects are struggling with the life principle, because the latter prevents the flow and force of the first, which is not the case with fatal ecstasy or faint. Deadly ecstasy, or a fatal frenzy there is a positive state - a period of rest, the continuance of which can sometimes be defined in advance, although it is not clear. So, sometimes a patient suddenly wakes up and sometimes gets well and often, as it represents a stationary machine, it comes into effect again. Basis fatal fainting or swoon is the cessation of heartbeat, respiratory function and voluntary movements, feeling, reason and herbal body functions usually go out of business. These phenomena are closely linked and the cessation of bodily warmth. He describes this phenomenon as follows: fatal ecstasy is a sign of death. Cardiac activity stops, breathing stops, all signs of continuing sensitivity and consciousness disappear, the body temperature drops. The ecstatic individual is very much like a lifeless corpse, the joints are fixed, the whole body flexible and curved, this is sometimes associated more and convulsive stupor. The only way to know whether to continue life - it is expected outcomes. Tedo need to put in a moderately warm room, and accelerate the decomposition of the body if the death occurred, or to keep the vital spark, if it still remains in the body, and the need to guard the body permanently. The book by Herbert Mayo examples of fatal fainting spells, as well as examples of visions in this state and made comments on measures to prevent premature burial. The author in this regard says: "Very often fatal syncope is expressed in the sudden and unexplained deaths, grief gives rise to family and friends - and at the same time, excessive jealousy, family is very easy to promote hasty anatomy
If the body does not wake up and at the same time last happy fashion, then this does not imply that a spark of life in it completely extinguished. This thought is too sad, but because it necessitates fortify nekroskopicheskie study if there is undeniable proof that life is completely extinguished ... The great practical importance of the issue is how to know that the body has stopped life? Complete absence of common signs of life is not enough to prove that life has stopped. The body may be quite cooldown: heart rate - to stop his heartbeat, the breath - stop, all motion - stop; members, due to convulsion may stiffen; szhimatelnye muscles - lose their elasticity and blood at the opening of the veins may not leaking; eyes - become glassy, may come a private lifeless, due to which there is the smell of a corpse, and, despite all this, the body can live. In the present state of science the only way to find out what life is truly and completely stopped, it is to wait for chemical decomposition, which is found to change colors, the blue and green on the belly cavity and anterior part of neck and at the same time trupovom smell. "
To move from these observations to vampirism, Dr. Mayo explains it, on the one hand, syncope, who found him epidemic in certain times and in certain areas, on the other hand, psychological factors, and, moreover, in connection with fatal ecstasy.