Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-27
INVENTION TO POST
PONE OLD AGE.

In addition 20 the redoubtable mi
crobes, those vigllant foes ever or
the alert TO take advantage OF any
opening through which they may eff
feet an entry and achieve their dead
ly work on our bodies. each one of
us tsays lie Matin OF Paris) has TO
dread a still more prolific source OF
danger TO life-namely. the grad
Gal and progressive hardening Of
our arteries. II is to this cause that
the deaths OF the immense majority
OF living beings are due. The maladv
does not always wait for old age be-
fore exercising its ravages How
many young men and women are
there, apparently I'm iourishing
health, who are suddenly fatally
stricken down by maladies of mys-
terious origin, which. in reality. are
nothing but visible manifestations OF.
the arterial hardening that has been
going on unknown to the victim.
Youth, however. may escape these
catastrophies; old age hardly ever
does. If we reconstitute the nbvsi-
illogical history of any invalid, of
any one who is aged. OF any one
whose death we have TO mourn. we
shall discover the same Characters
tic in every case. The pulse had
100 strong a beat, the blood circulat-
ed through channels that were too
narrow or too hard. This exercise
or pressure is the infallible symp-I
tom of the imminent arterial harden
ing.
TO moderate this pressure. after
1t has been shown to exist bv means
of that delicate instrument. the
sphygomometer, has long been one
or the desiderata OF modern science
but so far everything has lamentabIv
failed to have any effect. II SEEM
ed, in fact, that no possible escape
existed from that sentence of death
pronounced, apparently, in an ire
vocable manner, against each one of
rs. Once more. however. science has
achieved a victory over what was
assumed to be the inevitable. and
has forced Nature to herself deliver
her prisoners and spare the victims
she had marked out for slaughter.
FIFTEEN years ago Prof. d'Arsonval
constructed electrical machines I'm
which the current was reversed
something like half n million times
In the course of a second. and he
discovered that animals, such as rab-
DTS and guinea pigs, submitted to
these seemingly terrible electrical dis
charges suffered no Inconvenience
whatever; the only effect was that
their arterial tension was lessened
These results he communicated TO
DR.. Moutier, who Immediately began.
TO experiment on human beings. but
without any appreciable result. Tho
TWO savants next tried the effect OF
electrical machines somewhat more
powerful, and found that human pa
tients submitted to the discharges
were affected for the better. If the
treatment were prolonged sufficient
ly Now they have wonderful ma
chimes in which the current is re-
versed something like a million times
in second, which have produced
the most extraordinary effects %
!. people suffering from arterial sclero,
sis, as 1T is termed The dangerous
pressure is reduced, often i'm a few
moments, by nearly one-half. and
the sick man receives, as it were
with this electrical baptism a guaran-
tee of prolonged life. The peculiar
part OF the matter is that the ma
tlent who undergoes the treatment
experiences no sensation whatever.
though the electrical fluid I'm an in
slant has demolished every impuritv
encumbering and blocking up arter-
les and organs. BY suitable and
simple treatment the remains OF
these impurities, broken up by the
waves of electricity, may be per
manently expelled from the system
thereafter the patient enters upou
an entirely new lease Of life. There
is no longer any reason why he