The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-28

ssSn' hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon al
ONlde. the salines or salts Of the blood are
SIH.sea INTO gases, akalies and acids. For
-i-StaIlce. common salt (Which is one OF the
saIts OF the blood is made UP Of sodium.
-,. .l.l1l' ana chlorine, a gas; in such pro-
an electric current through II in solu-
eioh teiectrolysis) and chlorine. a green
sas appears, at the negative pole and So
u4uHA' metal, which burns on water due
- - great desire for the oxygen in the
waller IS found at the positive pole.
me great electric shock produces most
pON iui muscular contractions. the heart
pa lcipallng IN these, as that organ is
mostly all muscle. The blood in this man
ner forced into cavities where there are no
muscles, such as the brain; there the yes
sels are over distended and rupture with
WeIl-knOwn results Since the human
oody ana that OF all animals Is a source
OF electric currents and the movement
OF muscle produces a current and a rise
IN temperature In that muscle, conversely.
II the current is applied properly TO a mus
Gle before post norton, rightly takes
pace that muscle or group, will contract,
open an eye, heave the chest or move the
iAhps ana undergo rise in temperature,
even after the body is devoid of all life
Death may be from simple shock
10 the heart and respiratory centers: from
actual rupture of parts: from disrup-
i've dscharge 0he current breaking
through, or over, non-conductor. such
as arr as in a lightning stroke where a
tree is struck. the shivering rupture and
splintering is due to the sap, or moisture
being suddenly changed into steam. or
gases, with the great expansion, accom-
panying that sudden change Fortunately
the human body very rarely receives
enough, or the full force of. the stroke
required, to cause this change The parts
through which the current passes suffer
polarization or collection Of gases. com
posing the body. at one or the other pole
according as to whether the gases and
compounds are electro negative or electro
positive. The blood PLAQUES or corpuscles
suffer chemical change and shrivel up
while their gases leave them and appear
as bubbles. These blood experiments may
be performed on the stage of a micro
scope, outside the body. BY passing a
current of sufficient pressure and power
voltage and amperage) through acidfed
water, IL suffers electrolysis and is no
longer plain hydrogen-monoxide- it
Is gaseous. Two parts hydrogen and one
oxygen, which may be burned, as water
gas; or, If mixed, the application OF heat
energy or the electric spark causes them
to instantly reunite and the energy is
transformed by Vacuous space into sound
or thunder Electrical death is also due
to its destructive action on cell life, when
the current is great enough. Heat is de-
veloped by the passage Of electricity no
matter what the resistance of the con,
ductOr may be. In electrocution the body
is directly the conductor and the current
complete. must pass around and through
it. The body is not condenser. or holder
of electricity, little more than its own
mild quantity, and it is foolishness TO
speak Of tapping body and drawing off
the current by wires. Outside currents
DO not stop as electricity In the body any
more than electricity stops in the storage
battery; but as in the accumulation u. e.,
storage battery the current fed to IL in
duces chemical change and in this state
remains there, when the chemicals are
made to assume their former atomic
relationship, or the compound comes back
to its former self, the current that did the
work in producing the change is set free;
the same electricity that 1t was before.
If an electric current meets with res
sistance, or a tendency in any conductor
to retard its supposed forward motion, the
before mentioned phenomena of electricity
sis or chemical change is set up; the hu>
man skin offers a resistance of four or
five thousands ohms in health.
The arc electric light is
due to electrolysis OF the car
bons and the incandescent parti-
cles set free, and by the resistance to the
current in flowing through the space sep
arating their ends; in the vacuum or in
candescent light, to the resistance offered
the current by the carbon filament and to a
peculiar striking or pounding of the res
idual ether in the bulb technically known
as molecular bombardment;" electrical
energy thus by change in its vibratory
waves is transformed into radiant ener-
gy or light.
In simple shock, the current strength is
not sufficient in pressure or rate of flow
to kill; it does not pass through the body,
but around it, owing to certain situations
of the conductors or of the body, relative
to the conductors, or, in being surrounded
by better conductors, than the body is,
which takes away most of the current
one will naturally ask if electricity kills,
how is it that that foremost and modest
Servian genius, the wonderful Nikola Tisla
can allow a current of a hundred thousand
volts pressure and vibrating at an enor-
NOUS rate to pass through his body and
light incandescent bulbs on the other side,
without discomfort, only slight pricking
of the skin and massaging due to the be-
fore mentioned molecular bombardment
Testers experiments 1t must be remem-
bered are performed with currents pc
culiarly his own-alternating currents,
that is, changing their direction and re-
versng or alternatly flowing in oppo-
site directions ana passing through a
special induction coil "a piece or bundle
or soft irons wrapped with insulated
wlres), which, with the alterations.
causes the current to vibrate at the in
conceivable rate of a million or more
times in a second. He says the reason
why no pain is felt is that the direction
of the flow is at right angles to the sur
face of the body. and the body offers an
enormous section to the current. 1t seems
to me also that the electric vibrations are
so much faster than human nerves can
vibrate, pain is IMPOSSIBLE for, pain is
nerve cell vibration. 1t is now known
that there are rays of light above the
violet, vibrating with such intensity, that
the human eye cannot perceive them.
There are sounds. as the chirps or buzz
ing of insects of such high pitch or rate
of vibration that the wonderful organ
of Corti, of the human ear, tuned to 5000
different scales cannot respond, and
we hear them not on the battlefield and
the rapid cannon ball painlessly sewers
or carries away a limb; but the slowly
thrown stone causes pain. The buzz saw
carries away a part before the nerves
can respond, because nerve impulses can
not travel fast enough. instruments to
correctly measure human pain and pain
less vibrating surgeons knife, without an