The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23

Light From Living Organisms-It IL
Eliminates the Face and Flows
From the Finger Tips-FeeIing
without TOuching-A Theory Adj
Vanced.
Copyright
New York, Feb. 1S.-Put a man of the
temperament called Sensitive" in dark
room. Then put cat, or a bird or some
parts of flowers in the same room. The
man will see strange things after he has
been I'm that dark room for a few hours;
for the cat, or bird or flowers will be-
come visible to him in the darkness. At
first they will appear as a gray cloud
on a black background; then he will see
some lighter spots; and finally each OBJ
ject will become distinct, becoming more
and more SO as time passes.
Go into the dark room yourself with
such a sensitive man, and sit there quiz
city for several hours. Finally your
companion will begin to see you. Your
hands, for example, will at first appear
to him as a gray smoke; then each finger
will shine with it's own light. He will
see a luminous protuberance at the end
of each finger, sometimes as long as
the finger itself.
When the first surprise Is past, ask your
sensitive man to detail exactly what
he has seen. He will tell you that the
colors of the lights are not the same
on all parts of your body; that your
right hand shows a blue light, and your
left hand yellow-reddish light. He will
insist that there is the same difference
in color between the luminous effiuvia"
of your feet. He Will state that the right
side of your body and face is blush and
darker than the left side, which is yellow
reddish and much lighter.
1t has been known for some time that
under similar conditions in a dark room
a magnet emits blue light at it's north
pole, and a yellow-reddish light at its
south pole. The strength of this light
varies according to the power of the mag
net and the constituencies of the eyes of
the subject. 1t may be one or three feet
in diameter, and appears like a fiery flood
intermingled with sparks. Hypnotized
subjects frequently speak of this effiuvia
from the poles of magnet. That their
very sensitive retinae do see these phen-
omena has been demonstrated beyond a
shadow of doubt by such eminent and re-
liable authorities as Alfred Russell Wal
lace, Reichenbach, Deieuze, Despine,
Charpignon, Luys and finally by the great
Charcot himself.
NJ. A. de Rochas, the director of the
"Ecole Polytechnique, in Paris, has quite
personal experiments, showing that these
luminous effiuVia" are real and objec-
tive, and not imaginary.
Col de Rochas has hypnotized, at diff
ferent stages, two different subjects at
the same time and in the same room
Let us call them A and B. reported
that he could Sc luminous or phosphor-
escent coating on BIS body. He
could see besides that BIS mouth
eyes, ears, noStrils, and finger ends We're
emitting a fiame-like light, blue on one
side of the body, and yellow-reddish on
the other Those openings seemed to act
like escapes for these flames, which
were distinct from the coating of the
skin.
glass of water was put within the
radius of BIS luminous effiuvia' as de-
scribed by A. who could see how far they
reached. After few minutes A reported
that the water itself had become lumin-
GUS and that 1t remained so for a long
while, even If removed to the other end
BIS sensitiveness of the skin was made
TO disappear by the hypnotic process; but
any touch or puncture of a pin or needle
on the outside edge of the phosphorescent
or luminous coating perceived by AS eyes
was Immediately perceived by B. His body
did not feel the prick of a needle but the
outer edge of his luminous effluVia" sew
eral feet away from the skin, had acquir-
ed this sensitiveness lost by the body.
And here appears wonderful fact. The
water in the tumbler removed to the end
of the room had acquired that same sensi-
tiveness. If you pinch the water with your
fingers or touch it with pin B will scream
that you pinch or prick him. But B will
not feel the action if performed by a per-
son who has no magnetic relation with
him. We must conclude that the
nervous sensitiveness of BIS flesh had been
carried further than the surface of his
body, and communicated to objects satu-
rated and impregnated by his luminous
efffuvia;" also that the constituencies of
those objects remained in them for a while
even when removed to a certain distance
from BIS effiuvia. THE water" saws
de Rochas, loads itself with constituencies