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the physiological history of any lr- valid, of any one who is aged, of any one whose death we have to mourn, we shall discover the same character istic in every case. The pulse had too strong a beat, the blood circulated through channels that were too nar- row or too hard. This excess of pres sure is the infailable symptom of the imminent arterial hardening.
 We shall understand the exact posi- tion of affairs by imagining an india rubber tube through which ordinary lighting gas is passing. Should the tube be slightly damaged or in any way blocked, an excessive pressure of the gas will tend to produce Assures in the tubs. Reduce the pressure and the danger is obyiated. So it is with our arteries; they are always in dan ger of the blood circulating in them at too great pressure.
 To moderate this pressure, after it has been shown to exist by means of that delicate instrument the sphygo- meter, has long been one of the desid- erata of modern science, but so far everything has lamentably failed to nave any effect. It seemed, in fact, no possible escape existed from that sentence of death pronounced, appar- ently, in an irrevocable manner, against each one Of us. Once more however, science has achieved a vic- tory over what was assumed to to the inevitable, and has forced Nature to herself deliver her prisoners and spare | the victims she had marked out for | slaughter. Fifteen years ago Profess sor d'Arsonval constructed electrical machines in which the current was re- versed something like half & million times in the course of a second, and he discovered that animals, such as rabbits 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 hunnan beings, but without any appreciable result The \ two savans next tried the effect of electrical machines somewhat more powerful and found that human pa tients submitted to the discharges were affected for the bettre, if the treatment were prolonged sufficiently Now they have wonderful machines in which thee urrent is reversed some thing like a milliard times in a second which have produced the most extra ordinary effects on people suffering from arterial sclerosis, as 1t is termed The dangerous pressure is reduced often in few moments, by nearly one-half and the sick man receives, as 1t were, with this electrical baptism a guarantee of prolonged Hive. Tht peculiar part of the matter is that the patient who undergoes the treatment experiences no sensation whatever though the electrical fluid in an in. stant has demolished every impurity encumbering and blocking up arterie. and organs. By suitable and simple treatment the remains of these inn purities, broken up by the waves of electricity, may be permanently ex- pelled from the system. Thereafter the patient enters upon an entirely new lease of life. There is no longer any reason why he should either age ol die. The road to permanent health
 then, lies through careful observa
 ton of the arteries, those rivers whica
 bear life to all our members, to every
 organ-rivers which a mystic has com
 pared to the flour great rivers 0
 Paradlse.-Le Matin