The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-24
DEATH % MICROBES
Tesla Has Declared War on
That PestiferouS Tribe.
HE WILL KILL THEM OFF
BY Electricity, Leaving the
Patient Unframed.

New York, March 23-"HoW 20 you use
tremendous electrical forces. freeing US
from microbes and disease" is the latest
marvel of science.
Tesla has made some astonishing discov-
cries. He r. able to shoot millions anu
! tens OF millions of volts Of real thunoer
strom lightning through a man, tnat VIII
melt glass and fuse metals, and yet give
him no injury or pain.
More wonderful still IS that all this
mighty force which a human being can
withstand will destroy microbic life and
disease germs within, maying ones sys-
TEN as clean and sweet as atmosphere
after thunderstorm.
In view of these facts electro-medicaI
scientists have shown great interest IN
Tesla's experiments with his machines 1or
generating electricity that Yields lron'
tears steel TO fragments. and yet plays
harmlessly through the human system
creating new wealth and life for the mi
crobe poisoned victim.
Tesla has cen efore the highest scientihc
body of its kind in the country with ms
discovery. His address 10 the Electro
Therapeutic Association regarding the use
Of electricity by physicians in healing
wounds and curing disease is soon to be
published by the society.
In his carefully prepared paper he makes
these interesting statements:
THE body of a person may be subjected
without danger to electrical pressures
vastly in excess of any producible by or
binary apparatus, for they amount to sew
eral million volts as has been shown in
actual practice.
Now when a conducting body is cleo
trified to so high degree small particles,
which may be adhering firmly to its sur
face, are torn off with violence and thrown
to distances which can only be coniectur-
ed.
'sThe continuous improvement Of the IN
struments and the study of the phenome-
non may shortly lead to the establishment
Of a novel made of hygienic treatment
which would permit an instantaneous
cleaning of the skin of person simply by
connecting the same TO or possibly by
merely placing the person in the vicinity
of source of intense electrical oscilla-
tons. this having the effect o. throwing
off in the twinkling of an eye dust or any
intraneous matter adhering to the body
OF his experiments Tesla says:
soon my efforts were centered upon
producing in small space the most in
tense inductive action, and oy gradual i'm
provement in the apparatus L obtained
results of a surprising character.
'As may be assured, I proceeded with all
the necessary caution. and well 1 might,
for I had had the evidence that in turn |
OF only a few inches in diameter an cleo
tro motor force Of more than ten thousand |
volts was produced, and ouch high pres !
sure would be more than sufficient to gen. |
crate destructive forces in the tissue.
This appeared all the more certain as |
bodies of comparatively poor conductivity |
were rapidly heated and even partially de- |
stroyed.
zone may immagin my establishment |
when 1 found 1 could thrust my hand or |
any other part of the body within the
COP and hold it there with impuni5y.
"On more than one occasion, impelled by !
1 desire to make some novel and useful
observation, have willingly or uncon-
,ciously performed an experiment connect
ID with some risk. this being scarcely |
lvoidable in laboratory experience.
1T should be borne in mind tina. when
he exciting coil has a considerable num-
1er of terms and is of some length the
effects of eIectrostatic induction may pre-
as there may exist very great
Inference of potential-100.O00 volts or
nore-between the first and last turn.
However these latter effects are always
present even when a single turn IS en-
,loyed.
when a person is placed within such
loop any piece Of metal though of small
'ulk. are preceptibly warmed. Without
loubt they would also De heated-particu-
arly If they were Of iron-when imbeded
n living tissue, and this suggests the pos
Utility of surgical treatment by this me
hod.
1T might be possible to sterilize wounds
r to locate or even TO extract metallic
bjects, or to perform other operations Of
his kind within the sphere Of the sur
cons duties in this novel manner"