EVERY MAN HIS OWN HALO

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 330, 17 June 1911, Page 10

EVERY MAN HIS OWN HALO

DOCTOR'S REMARKABLE DI.S--COVEIU. London, April 28. Every human being has a halo whicli varies in size and distinctness according to good or ill-health, makes pain visible, and enables the. expert to distinguish between intelligent and dull individualities. This is the remarkable discovery which, after four years of close and continuous study and almost numberless experiments, Dr. W. J. Kilner, the prominent London physician, claims to have made. He asserts that he has succeeded in rendering actually visible the halos with which every human being is surrounded.

The investigations which have produced this remarkable result have been carried out solely from a medical point of view and on strictly scientific lines. An Express representative has been enabled to test the claim made by Dr. Kilner in a scries of experiments under which the direction of Dr. Felkin, the specialist, who lias taken a deep personal interest, in the investigations. The apparatus, if apparatus it can be termed, consists of a number of what are technically termed "spec tan rani no glass screens, each about four inches in length by an inch and a-half in breadth. J hese screens are made each of two plates of very thin glass, between which, hermetically sealed in, is a wonderful fluid which Dr. Kilner has discovered.

The screens vary in color. Some are red, others blue, varying in depth of color to suit the eyes of the investigator. When Dr. Felton had briefly explained the processes which had led up to Dr. Kilner's actual discovery he passed with the Express representative into a small room in which the subject of the experiments awaited them.

The subject was a well-made woman of medium height, and apparently in the best of health. Dr. Welkin iirst of all told her exactly the nature of the experiments lie was about to make. Then having instructed the Express representative to look steadily at the daylight through one of the spectauranine screens, and set the patient standing upright, with legs together and hands on hips, about a foot away from a dead, dark background, facing the only window in the room, he proceeileu to draw a (lark blind half-way down this window, then from below he drew up a blind of dark serge until it overlapped the upper blind sullicicntly to allow light so dim to filter into the room that only the white form of the subject's body could be discerned in the gloom. For some moments, perhaps a quarter of a minute, the only object that could be made out in the darkness was the subject's form and its outline. Then gradually, as the eyes drew accustomed to the darkness, a sort of double mist or halo, the one within the other and the inner one denser than the outer, became; more and more distinctly visible.

The outlines of this mist exactly followed the curves and contour, of the subject's body, The color of the outer aura was darker, also, apparently, the inner aura was denser. In the triangular space formed by the sides of the body and the angle of the arms, as the subject remained with her hands resting lightly on her hips, the halo could be seen most cle.irlv.

Presently, acting upon Dr. Felkins instructions, the subject raised and extended lirst one arm, then the. other. Then she joined her hands at the back of her neck. And always the mist or aura followed, as though it were an outline of some sort of shadow of the limbs.

Of course, the question will be asked: Of what practical use is this discovery? .-\- yet the discovery is in its extreme infancy, but already it has been found possible with its aid practically to render pain visible. For the aura varies in shaue and in density, in breadth and in shape in accordance with the state of ttie patient's health, and any acute and lasting pain, such, for instance, as sciatica, is actually rendered visible by the length to which the aura of a particular shade and density extends along the limb or limbs, in which tne pain is felt.

The doctor declared further that the online of the aura of, say, a patient suffering from hysteria, to name only one complaint/ differs wholly from the outline of the aura of a person afflicted with epilepsy or any other illness of the kind.

"Auras of quick and intelligent children, however young and untrained," Dr. Kilner afterwards wrote to the Express representative, "will be more extensive than those of the dully and phlegmatic, "chough children of the latter sort may have the advantage in physique. The former children will also probably have auras larger, and the larger auras smaller, than the average. With adults mucn the same thing pertains, as the finest auras envelop the most intelligent people, and small ones surround persons who are dull or of a low intellectual type." Dr. Kilner has a volume entitled, "The Human Atmosphere: or. The Aura made \isible by the aid of Chemical Screens," already in the press, in which book the entire subject is dealt with at considerable length and particulars are given of experiments that have been made with many hundreds of patients.