The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-10
4 Human Electric Battery.
Boudon lOnt.l Adrcrtiee,.

We have been favored with the details
of one of the straneest cases of which we
I ever heard, and one which is sure to ex.
cite good deal of interest among medi-
cal men. The particulars Of the case are
| given below:
| 1t seems that about two years since o
daughter of Mr.. Richard Glare, Caroline
by name, and then seventeen years Of
age, living in lot No. 25, ON the second
concession Of Rodney was taken ill.
Her disease could not be correctly dag
nosed, and had many peculiar features.
| Her appetite fell off, and she lost flesh
till from a strapping girl Of 130 pounds
weight she barely weighs eighty yscven
pounds. There did not seem to be any
organic complaint. The bodily functions
"aTo not impaired, and, although she
| ate lesa than formerly, the falling off in
| this respect was not such as in itself
would alarm her friends. After the
| lapse Of few months she took to
her bed. Then it was that change
| took place in her mental condition.
| Formerly she wa noted rather for lack
of conversational powers, but now fits
or spasms would come over her. on the
passing away Of which her eyes would
become set and glazed, her body almost
! rigid, and while in that state she would
F. discourse cloquently, and give vivid dcs-
1 criptions Of iar off scenes, exceeding in
I their beauty anything which she had ever
seen, or presumably ever read Of On the
passing away of this state she exhibited
great degree of assitudc and indsposi-
tion to move, and was tnciturn and surly
in roply to any questions. This contin-
ucd till about month since, when an
extraordinary change occurred. The
girl, although still not gaining flesh, APP
peared to rally. She became light-hcart-
ed and gay, and her friends anticipated
4, an early relense for her from the room to
( which she had been confined SO long.
| Their expectations were not in vain, for
she is now about the house apparently
as we'll bodily IN ever. But n most re-
markable development has taken place.
She is constantly giving OFF electrical
discharges, and seems to be q perfect
| the very strongest nerves, can not
shake hands with her, nor can any one
place his hand in IL pail of water with
| her. BY joining hands she can send
! sharp shock through fifteen or twenty
people in room, and she possesses all tho
| attraction of n magnet. If she attempts
to pick up knife tho blade will jump
into her hand, and paper OF needles viii
hang suspended from one Of her fingers.
So strongly developed il this electrical
| power that she can not release from her
touch any article of steel which she may
have taken up. The only method yet
found is for second party to take hold
of the article and pull while the girl
strokes her own arm vigorously from the
wrist upward. On her entering a room
n perceptiblc influence scizcs hold of all
others, and while some are affected to
slcepness others are i'll and fdgety till
they leave, and even for q considerable
time afterward. A sleeping babe viii
wake up with start mt her approach
IN aSsiIsnsd is X ANY SAa ussa 4SaSRs can n,.
do.t.+,s.ss ALSO subject to her influence,
and pet dog Of the household will lie
for hours Mt her feet as motionless as
in death. A curious part Of the phc-
nomcna is the fact TINT the electricity
can be impaired by her TO any article
with which size habitually comes in con-
tact. The other day younger sister.
whiio doing the hOusework, took up q
pair of corscts belonging to Caroline, and
on her hand touching tho steel was com
PEELED to drop them with n loud cry and
an exclamation to the effect that she had
run needle into her finger. Wooden
spoons have had to be made for her as
she cannot touch metal. Altogether the
case is most remarkable one, and at
tracts scores of visitors to the house of
Mr.. Clare. Medical men are especially
interested themselves, and it has been
stated that DR.. Tye of Thameaville will
read q paper on the subject at the meet
ing of the Provincial Medical Associa-
tion, which is to be held in London in
the course of this summer. Mr.. Glare is
tho father of family of seven children,
none Of whom except Caroline show any
abnormal ounIitira