The Washington herald., 1907-09-17
VITALITY OF Man ELECTRIC
Dr.. Mcconnell Discovers New Realm
in Scientific Research.
With Power 10 Increase Vitality
Nervous PrOsiratiOn and Other
Diseases May BE Cured,

This is an electrical age" is again az
hrmed by Dr. Andrew Mcconnell. former
~ Of Birmingham. Ala. who is now stay
ing at the Ashley
From the discovery Of the Chinese load
stone 10 the most recent application of
electricity for transmitting pictures from
one point 70 another, people have mar
veled at the wonders performed. But Or
Mcconnell classes all this as discoveries
along the lines Of inorganic electricity.
The doctor afirms:
After two years OF investigation and
experiment have found a new realm in
electricity; found that the scientific age
has only known one-half Of the electrical
world. The other. like new hemisphere
is yet 70 be explored. When il is done
We may ind answer 70 those great human
needs. This realm is the organic cleo
tricity. or the electrical power Of the liv-
ing body"
Or. Mcconnell says that this idea of
the vital force in the human body being
a form OF electricity occurred 10 him
about two years ago. but he desired 20
find proof OF II before be gave the idea
10 the world The first problem that con-
fronted him was to prove that the vital
power in man was an electrical power.
BY vital power De means that power that
gives man the vitality 10 keep his body
IN healthy. normal condition II has
been called vitality. nervous energy, "
life principle" prana." and other
names But Dr. Mcconnell quits the
realms Of the imagination and the spirit
and calls IL by the more material name OF
human electricity.
In 1775 Galvani discovered that cleo
tricity viii make a frogs legs kick as II
alive. proving that electricity can take
the place az vitality. In 1888 NoblIi put a
live frog upon the circuit OF a galvanom-
eter, the standard instrument used for
detecting electricity, and the 1--we frog
detected the needle four degrees. con
clusiveiy proving that there Is electricity
in live frog.
Having proved that the vital power in
man is electricity DR.. Mcconnell then
had the second problem TO solve. namely.
that this human electricity could be in
creased at viii. thereby increasing the
vitality Of man and keeping him In a
healthy, normal condition BY proving
these two theOrems he found that he
could increase the vitality 10 such an
extent as 10 cure nervous prostratioD
heart trouble. and other diseases OF the
vital organs and this he claims can be
done without doping the system with
drugs. Secondly. he claims there are
means by which this science can be de-
veloped 10 increase the mental power OF
the patient by increasing the vitality.
and finally that human life may be in
creased by keeping the vitality Of the old
man TO the point Of that OF the younger
man. Such are the possibilities that Or.
Mcconnell claims for his discovery.
The doctor now claims that he has
proofs for all of his suppo$tions. and
can prove TO any conservative thinker
that his discovery is material and posi-
bic. lie Classics the causes OF death
into three grOups-accidents. by germ
disease. by disease Of the vital organs.
The first are caused by individual negll-
gence. the second are cured by means OF
antitoXins but the only scientific cure
for the last is by means of his discovery
IN organic electricity Of ways 10 rapidly
Increase the vital force.