The Wilmingtonian., 1884-08-30

of Miss Hurst is interesting enough to bear
repetition.
When she was brought to Paris Arago
received her, ard in the presence of Profess
sors Laugier and Goujon made the following
among other observations, reported 10 tho
Academy of Sciences;-
81. 1t is the left side of the body which
acquires this sometimes attractive but more
frequently repulsive property. Any light
body being placed on a table, if the girl
approaches her left hand, even before she
touches it, the object is driven to a distance.
The table itself is overthrow the moment
it is touched by her hand, or even by a
thread which she may hold in it.
"2. 1t is in the region of the pelvis that
this singular repulsiyo force appears to con-
Gentrate itself.
50. AS had been observed the first day, if
she attempted to sit tho seat was thrown
far from her with such force that any other
person occupying it was carried with it.
"a. One day chest upon which three
men were seated was moved in the same
manner. Another day, although the chair
was held by two very strong men, it was
broken between their hands
50. These phenomena are not produced in
a continued manner. They manifest them
! selves in greater or less degree, and from
time 10 time during the day
40. During the entire duration of the
paroXysms the lett side of the body is
warmer than the right side.
'l2. This young girl presents, moroover,a
peculiar sensbility to tho action of the mag
net. When she approaches the north pole
of the magnet she feels violent shock,
while the south pole produces no effect, so
q ny far IaI fbn
but without her knowledge, she always dis
covers it by the difference of sensations
which she experiences
lib. M. Arago found that the approach of
| the young girl, however, did not occasion
| any variation Of the needle Of the compass"
ContemporancouSly Baron Reichenback
was prosecuting inquiries respecting this
mysterious force, (which was observed to
be evolved in its positive form in all chem
ical action where carbonic acid was driven
out" lie terms it 'odyle,' and he states
that Sin the driving out and Justification of
the carbonic acid positive odyle was neces-
sarily set free. At the time of the action of
the muscles oxygen unites with carbon, con
shutting carbonic acid; carbonic acid is dia-
magnetic, as it is repealed by Oxygen, and
when oxygen enters the system, carbonic
acid is Immediately driven out" Moreover,
the German savant found that this anoma-
lous physc agent, as it emanated from the
human organism, was 'transmisSible," not
only through metals, but also glass, resin,
| silk, etc, as if they were perfect conductors.
He found that this force, Furthermore, ''may
be transmitted TO unisolated bodies and
accumulated III them to certain extent,
while electricity can be conveyed and con
densed only upon isolated-by no means
| Observation-Disclosures
when the free odc force is thus accum.
ulated in the human body" says Professor
Rogers, sit is retained in it in such man.
ner that it does not readily escape rs is the
case with electricity. In the case of Ange.
lique Cotton and others it is under the cir,
| cumstance of sudden change of the nerve
| centres Of the organism that this sometimes
tremendous force escapes. The unusual
accumulation of this force in the first place
is usually caused by peculiar abnormal
action of the lower sympathetic nerves,
mostly connected with the uterine functions.
NO person can be a medium for the odylc
! phenomena who has not the internal condi-
| tions OF its accumulation and control.
| Where these two conditions are most per-
fsctly fulfilled, the phenomena are most
| astonishing, aye, Incredible" Reichenbacl
| again found his experiments that ''the
odyiic agent naturally accumulates itself in
polar forces at the extremities. Both the
hands and feet preserved this polarity and
the left side stood in polar opposition to tho
right
"The application Of these facts and con.
sideraNons to the case of Lula Hurst, '.thC
Georgia Wonder" must be sufficiently
obvious to all but the most purblind bigJt.
| Here We have physical force associated
with the organism of young unsophisti-
Gated girl, and under a few conditions such
as she and her poorly qualified advisers have
discovered so far, is made to emanate with
varying energy into an umbrella, cane, a
billiard cue or chair, while medical men
make themselves ridiculous by talking Of
muscular tricks" and the ''principe OF
suggestion, whatever that may be. Lula
| Hurst's manifestations fall within the legiti-
mate province of science; they are neither
| unique nor unprecedented, as we have
already seen, and the forces should be sub
mitted to careful investigation and magnetic
tests, not on public stage, but in private
by committee of well recognized, reliable
scientific mem,