probability for the purpose of getting the
phosphorus out of his stomach.

After an absence of twenty minutes, he
returned, dressed in a coarse woolen coat,
to enter the heated oven. Before he
entered it, a medical gentleman ascertained
that his pulse was vibrating ninety-eight
times a minute. He remained in the oven
five minutes, during which time he sung
Le Vaillant Troubadour, and superintended
the cooking of two dishes of beef
steaks. At the end of that time he came
out, perspiring profusely, and with a pulse
making one hundred and sixty-eight
vibrations in a minute. The thermometer,
when brought out of the oven, stood at
three hundred and eighty degrees; within
the oven he said it was above six hundred.


Although he was suspected of trickery by
many, was often challenged, and had an army
of rivals and imitators, all available records
show that Chabert was beyond a doubt the
greatest fire and poison resister that ever
appeared in London.

Seeking new laurels, he came to America in
1832, and although he was successful in New