Chuck
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It seems like the big showman, because this was sort of around the snake oil time where you would put on a big show to try and talk people into buying your thing.
And in the 19th century, there was a guy, Count Michel de Carnice Carnicky.
He dubbed himself as the Chamberlain to the Tsar of Russia, whatever that means.
So he was like, yeah, like a butler.
I mean, hey, I'm not trying to degrade him because he was quite the showman.
He would travel through the Europe and the United States trying to sell his unit called the Carnice.
And there was an article from the Chicago Tribune in 1899 that they would read before his big show where at the Academy of Medicine in New York City, Dr. Henry J.
How would you pronounce that one?
Garagus, where he startled his fellow members with the assertion that one of every 200 people buried in the U.S.
was actually in a lethargic state and is buried alive.
Very dubious numbers, obviously, but he would use that as prelude to take the stage and do his own demonstration where he would bury somebody alive.
I think at one point on day like seven, he spoke through the tube and he was like, I'm going to put my mouth around the tube now and just drop a couple of Tic Tacs.