LIVING CREATURES.
PLANTS RESEMBLE HUMANS.»
HEARTS, NERVES, MUSCLES.
LONDON, August 6.
A group of great scientists watched Sir Jagadis Bost, of India, at the British Association Congress prove that plants have hearts, nerves, and muscles, also that their sap is driven similarly to the blood of human beings.
Sir Jagadis dropped two dying marigolds, one into ether, .which is a heart stimulant, and the other into a deadly poison. The firstt revived, the second drooped and died. Thereafter, by means of amazingly delicate instruments, revealed to the world for the first time, the scientists watched a snapdragon’s fight for life. A spot of light representing a plant’s pulse was thrown on to a darkened wall. The Snapdragon, placed on the poison spot, moved towards death, and when practically dea’.d it was dipped into ether. ,
Minutes passed with the plant at death grips. Then the spot moved life wards, and it revived.
Sir- Jagadis Bos.e declared that mimora was ten times more sensitive than human beings.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5011, 9 August 1926, Page 3
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165LIVING CREATURES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5011, 9 August 1926, Page 3
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