National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15
BLOOD CURRENTS.

Do They Circulate from the Heart or Braini
WASHINGTON, D. c., April u, 1875.
To the Editor orthe National Republican:
SIR: Does the heart circulate the blood, or the
electric and magnetic forces of the body2 Har-
Tey's theory of the circulation Of the blood is
adopted by the medical profession throughout
the world, never for moment stopping toinVesti-
gate its truth or fallacies. He assumed that the
heart circulates the blood upon the hydraulic or
vacuum principle, and the heart, to accomplish
this, e1erts force OF more than one hundred
thousand pounds. Grant the heart to be the
strongest muscle in the body. Who can believe
its motive power is equal to fifty tons? We con-
tend the heart does not circulate the blood, or
cause the heart to throb. We claim the heart re-
ceives its motive power from the brain and other
nerve centres, the cerebellum being the great
reservoir Of vital or electrical force, conducted
throughout the whole body by Its nerves or tele-
graph system. Hence the Involuntary nerves
from the eerebellum throb the heart and cause
inspiration and expiration Of the lungs.
To prove this, sever the nerve in the spine be-
low the heart and lungs, and all parts below this
incision will be paralyEed both sensation and mo-
ton; yet IL these immovable and unieellng parts
the blood continues 10 flow through the veins and
arteries by the positive and negative forces of the
electricity contained in the air inspired BY the
lungs. But let the spinal marrow be severed
above the lungs and heart, and both will be In
stantly parslyEed and cease their motion.
This proves TO US the system has two distinct
circulating systems. The first is the positive or
arterisl that carries the positive blood, which is
Of red color, and Is ever flowing from the heart
towards the eXtremities.
The second is the venous or negative blood,
which is Of purple color, and Is ever flowing from
the extremities towards the heart These views
of the circulation are strengthened when we know
the nerves OF Involuntary motion accompany the
arteries and do not the veins. These nerves re-
eeive their charge Of electricity from the positive
blood that flows In them; and, further this theory
is strengthened by the fact that the blood con-
tains certain portion OF iron, and iron becomes
magnet only by induction; loses its magnetic
power the moment the electric current passes
from It. Hence the blood, through the agency OF
the iron 1t contains, can assume positive state
at the instant It receives the electric charge frem
the iron at the lungs. It can then pass into the
arteries and by induction throw of IT'S electricity
sumo q negative state as It enters the veins. As
the venous blood has no electricity to throw Oh,
Of course needs no attending nerves TO receive
or charge. The blood Ia now negative, and as the
lungs by new Inspiration are kept in o positive
state, 50 the venous blood returns through the
right Ventriele Of the heart to the lungs. On the
same principle that the negative and positive
forces rush together, then It Is again electrified
and oxygeniZed, changed to q bright red color,
and rendered positive, and Is thus purified and
prepared once moro for arterial circulation. We
now clearly perceive that 1t Is electrically the
blood eireuates, and electrically It recedes from
cles Of the heart. The heart does not circulate
the blood at all, as Psychologists contend. The
heart 10 the regulator Of the constantly ebbinV
and flowing veins of crimson life, with all rs
frolieklnk streams, and determines with exactness
how rapidly the whole flows.
DR.. s. E. NJ STuReIs,
No. 1855 Tenth street northwest