Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-16
THOUGHT PICTURED.
Startling Discovery That Has Just Been An- nounced by Dr. Baraduc in Paris.
 Photographs, in Evidence.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
 We live in asingular age. We are be- ginning to realize that what we call our axioms are not things about which there is no dispute (which is the proper defini- tion of. an axiom), but things which we have never shappenedsto hear disputed. Now a change has come. Nothing is al- lowed to goAundisputed or unchallenged. What with new discoveries detected by honest research and registered by appli- ances less subject to error than any of our senses, we seem afioat on sea of un- certainty, in an atmosphere of twilight gloom, which may possibly be the herald of the dawn of truth, but which is cer- tainly the successor to a long night of ignorance. e.e..-.
 Things have come to such pass that If some one were to demonstrate to us tomorrow that the earth is not round and that the stars are mere hallucina- tions of the vision we would acquiesce calmly, without any mental revolt, with only a smile. for the simplicity of our certainties of yesterday.
 Twenty years ago all the theories of medical science were overthrown and had to be reconstructed on a new basis by the discovery of that infinitesimal atom known as the microbe. Only the other day the gelatine-brom plate prov ed to us the impotence of our retina and liiS iAdHlty Ol di Opllcdl idWS lOuHueQ upon that organ as register of impress sions. H'5tt
 And now comes a wise man to improve upon Roentgen, and to tell us that thought itself can be photographed. We do not reject him, we do not call him a fool or an imbecile. We hold our judg- ment in suspense and await his expla- nation. A few years ago we would have mentally consigned him to the Paresis club at Bloomingdale.
 Who Is pr. BaraducP
 The name of this wise man is pr. Bara- duo. He Is a practicing physician, an electropath. His professional studies led him to the discovery, which he has just announced at meeting of the So- ciete de Medecine in Paris. Let us try to disentangle that discovery as much as possible from the technical labyrinth in which he well nigh buried it away from the popular comprehension. This article will deal with his experiments and his conclusions rather than with his arguments.
 Dr. Baraduc first produces for your in- spection a couple of magneto-meters, which he lays upon table. These are two little cases, graduated to 360 de- grees, on each of which moves copper needle as sensitive as possible, but iso- lated from all exterior contact in a small glass vessel. No breath, therefore, no slightest displacement of the air can af- feet it. tsa i-a=lss
 You are asked to hold your open hands in such a way that the fingers all point to one or the other of these magneto- meters, and to observe what follows: At the end of about two minutes, if you are a person af normal temperament, you will find that the needle opposite your left hand has fled five degrees away, the other, opposite your right hand, has approached by fifteen degrees. Mo- xub bof tro<, drro oadi fc- placement? sP
 Evidently some force, fluid or wave, call it what you will of which you are the fountain head, enters the left needle and makes a circuit back through the right. pr. Baraduc calls this vital force. It gives testimony to its existence in a very striking manner.
 Between each of the magneto-meters and your hands a, sensitized plate Is pro- duced, the room is darkened so that all light Is excluded save a, faint red light, which, as is we'll known, cannot make any impression on the salts of silver.
 Now, if you dip the plates in the devel- oping basis you will find that the right one presents a curious, speckled appear ance, while the left surface is divided in to almost unbroken blackness on one side and a mottled white on the other. This proves that the vital force bears rays of lights, and that it has passed through both glass vessels. The two plates are thereto furnish all the neces- sary evidence 70 -f~sH
 Dr. Baraduc calls the vital force, when passing out of the left hand, expiration, and when passing back to the right hand aspiration.
 Now, you will remember that the expi- ration moved the needle five degrees for ward, while the aspiration drew it fifteen degrees backward. There remains, therefore, a difference of ten, which Is somehow accumulated in our human res ervoir. That is what constitutes psy- chicaf force, which we can, by mere effort of will. radiate out of us.
 More Experiments.
 Now comes another experiment. The radiometers are removed and are replac- ed by simple photographic plate. You are told to extend your hand in the direc- tion of this plate and to think intently upon something. In course of time, which may vary <, with the individual from few minutes to two hours, very remarkable phenomenon will have taken place. The sensitized plate will have be- come impressed. with sort of luminous dimly traced The experiment is a hard one, because at it's, end. provided you have put into it all your force, no matter what the length of time that it has con- sumed you will find yourself mentally and physically exhausted. The impress SlOn IS there, HOWeNtl, dIlu uLlcSS IL Oc admitted that an invisible yet luminous wave has made that impression, how, in heavens name, asks pr. Baraduc, did it get here?
 Two plates were submitted by the doc tor for examination. In one there could be faintly diseerned a child's head, which was what the individual had in mind. He was a normal and ordinary individ- ual It is true that the head was no more distinct than the shapes you some times imagine you see in clouds. But Dr. Baraduc had an ace up his sleeve in the second picture. This was startlingly distinct. A acknowledged oriental, with long black beard and mustache with his head arrayed in @ turban, was the object photographed upon 1t. Dr. Bara- duo explained that this was produced by placing medium in front of the sensi- tized plate.
 medium, he said, undoubtedly pos sesses faculty of exteriorizing his inner self which Is greater than that of ordi-