LIFE’S SECRETS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 14

LIFE’S SECRETS.

ELECTRICAL ENERGY. STRANGE EXPERIMENTS. DOCTOR AND ENGINEER. (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, July 6. A prominent South African doctor and a famous engineer are working in a London laboratory trying to discover the secrets of life and death through electrical energy. Medical etiquette forbids mention of their names. They have been working for five years, and consider that it will take another five to obtain the de-sired results. Rut already they have answers lo some of their problems. The doctor and the engineer both thought that the secret of life lay in ( some kind of energy, probably elec- j tideal. After careful discussions they laid their plans and tried to prove it. Intricate apparatus was designed and built by the engineer, and the experiments started. Animals were used at first. The machine consists or metal plates, which arc fixed on the wrist and over the heart, connecting through a circuit lo a battery and a recording instrument. Every Animal Charged. animal was burn with u definite •elec-

tric charge. They were able to record and tabulate this energy. Readings were taken of various animals at different stages of their c lives. They found that the more intelligent animals had a higher charge E than the lower forms. At the moment of death the charge 1 disappeared. In the animal expori- ' ments the record showed that the charge remained more or less the same f throughout life, except when the 1 animal was breeding. Research moved on. They were able to examine human beings. Here, at 1 ! first, they discovered that the law's I they had already found In the lower J mammalian forms still held good— j babies were born with a definite charge. After death the charge vanished. An average human charge, they found, was 500 volts. As the months went on, however, a new and overpowering development became apparent. As the subject grew' older the charges increased, not with age, but according to the type of character t lie subject was developing. | The two men began to think that they were on tiie track not only of ! life but of the soul, so long sneered at Iby scientists. Experiments were made j of numbers of adults of all types and v They proved what they were beginning to believe—that the higher and better the type of the subject the higher was the charge. In coarse animal natures the charge remains low. And in cases of menial disease and lunacy I he charge dropped. They found that male babies had a higher charge at birth than female babies, but that, the female could catch up and pass the male according to

Mystery. Intensive research Into the history of patients was carried out. Each subject has been followed up and regular readings taken of the charges. But one great fact continued to baffle the experimenters. Where did the charge go at death? As it was energy it could not disappear. It had to go on existing In gome form. Now' they are trying to find out where it does go. The engineer Is planning a new r recording machine. This will not take the reading definitely from the body of the -subject, but from the atmosphere around it. It is based on a theory that there is an aura around every human boing. With this new machine they hope that they will be able to take the reading of the atmosphere In a room or in a building such as a hospital. They hope that when a death occurs the needle of the recording machine will not drop, hut will remain steady, proving that the charge is still there, j in the ether filling the room. The theory they hold now is thal when a patient dies the energy leaves the body, hut hovers for a lime in the atmosphere surrounding the body. They hope in this way to be abb to track the energy down, to discover exactly what has become of it. LOOK AFTER YOURSELF J Overworked? And a cold too? If rasv to pick up a cold, chill or ’flu whe resistance Is lowered through work c worry. A champion method or wardln oiT the germs is to suck F'ulmonas. whir disinfect and soothe the mucous membram ~f nose, throat anil lungs. Buy a larjt si/..- Familv Tin or l-nlnionas. The j stop roughs, eokls. ’On. etc. 1/-. I/1 'J. Clientb 15 and £jtorea. (-’)