The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-12-05
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electricity to Revolutionizs the scieEs
OF Medicine.

HANNNN 49,
OF Medicine.
Professor L. /. Blake spoke to thu
University Club recently on 3 line Of
thought to which he has given much
attention in his laboratory at the Kan
sas electricity fu.rr,
bearing on medical science in the light
IF the work of Professor Loeb. Mr..
Blake has followed the Loeb dlscov-
cries very closely and earnestly and hs
believes they will revolutionize the
medical practice and take II from the
empirical to the actual and positive.
Professor Loeb and some others hold
that all life is along electrical lines anu
hat in word electricity Is life.
I'VE have been obliged to change
most Of our ideas within the last hya
yer RS, said he, and have had 70 build
up a new chemical science. Now
physiology belongs TO ele1lricity, anc
/ am eager to welcome II; some day WI
will reach ont and grasp astronomy
This means a new chemistry. ard II
will mean a new science Of medicine
That is startling, but true, IN the llgh
Of recent discoveries"
Mr. Blake told Of the Pfeifer disco
sry that a cell Of sugar. for instan
in solution would swell; in othe.
words. there is a pressure from the in
side. Others experimenting along the
same line found that the pressure bore
relation to the solid In solution. Il
vas ascertained that the particles
moved as II gaseous and that the iawl
Of gases governed them. That the ex-
reptions were, 1t was ascertained
greater than the rule. Salt was an ex-
reption it was ascertained that Il
when dissolved was charged with cleo
tricity. each atom having its charge
These are called ions. Electricity will
pass through water only when thes,
ions are present Air or gas breaks "
into ions before the electrical sparh
passes through it, and The electricit,
skips along on them. This makes ths
Jagged fash Of lightning. The discoy.
cry OF J. T. Thompson, Of Cambridge
who discovered particles 1-1,000 Of q
hydrogen. atom till then believed ths
smallest thing in le world, was dr.
scribed.
They exist In all substances. anc
are negative electrical particles. We
call them corpuscIes. said he They
are shot out from every nlament in an
electric lamp. and the ultra violet rayi
Of the sun produce them. They are Ia
all nature. They ionize tns upper lay
ers OF the atmosphere. and Tesla Il
taking advantage Of them in his wire.
less experiments They fall in a Taoie'
atmosphers and the moisture collectl
about them and we have rain. Thel
are always negatively electric; th'
999-1, 900 OF an atom left is p0sitiy
Mr.. Thompson holds that these n !.
tives are in all nature and are 4
primoids OF beginnings of all things
But Ildon't believe il"
Coagulati0n Of water. Mr.. Blake said
was caused by ions. and this fac
would change the whole science o
philosophy.
The delta OF the Mississippi is no
caused by the sluggishness Of the va
ter. but because the silt in the water 4
/ prccipitated by the salt in the gul
water; the salt produces the ions. IN
precipitant must be OF the oppoyiA
electrical pole. The mixture OF sub
stance and liquid which will not setti'
is called a colloid The curious fact
that plant and al.mal substances
made up exactly on the same princi
1 pies; nearly all Of mans substance
are colloids. The discoveries OF Pro
lessor Loeb and Professor Matthew
are on these lines"
The action of the leaf OF the SENSITIVE
plant. which closes on a touch.
caused by precipitation of the colloid
salt and water solution has been fOunl
10 have peculiar action on muscles AM
aerves. The hearts OF certain animals
2laced in solutions. have been made t
beat for hours. and experiments nav
hown that the nerve action In ever.
icing Is produced by negative electric
ty because this acts on the cOn~
which every nerve contains. An auaes
hetic acts just the other way; it /
1ositiye and prevents coagulation o
Precipitation Simply the salts ar
opt m solution. This shows that tn
icti0n In a nerve Is exactly the same a
Is IN inanimate nature. The ions d
he work; the nervous impulse Is du
o negative charges on them. The pro
ess Is purely mechanical.
nr Blake held in brief that negativ
iectlicity was necessary TO life; ths
oEitive electricity was poisonous
1iEons could be neutralized by mega
electricity. Medicines are poison
ven to couLtera / lack OF nesat'-
.actricity. The whole science OF medl
50 in the future. he said. would sim
y be the application 81 the study @
Cctricity The rate of vibration mus
considered in this. as well as tn
ze CT the charge-and all Of this
I to be developed.
The key Of all Is that the action {
q nerves and muscles is just the sam
sie the actions OF mechanicals. !" h
I'd. We are learning today that ID
iion OF medicine pOisons Is simpl
ectrical and we can study them
aai line. Then we viii study our food
"a learn how TO produce them iroi
ne soil just with the rays Of light an
e VIII learn their effect on us. Grad
sllv we will learn how to build mp n
erfeot man. This is the most wonder
M thing and the newest n this age" -
saasas City Journal
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