The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-21
ENERGY OF HUMAN
BODY MEASURED
ALPHABETICALLY
Boston Physician Claims to
Have Made Discovery That
Will Prevent Disease.
Also Reduce Expense of Living
70 Minimum.
TO GET MOST WORK FROM FOOD

which Prof Francis Gano Benedict
and his associates at the Carnegie
Nutrition laboratory, this city. have
been conducting to determine math-
ematically and scientifically the ex-
act amount OF energy in any human
being, are so near a successful frui-
ton that European scientists have
decided they must cross the ocean
and witness the Benedict marvels
with their own eyes.
These experiments, which entail
the combining of men and women in
an ingeniously contrived box for days
or weeks at a time, have been going
on for several months, but have been
conducted with the utmost secrecy;
so closely guarded has been the rec
ord achieving work performed by the
Boston scientist and his associates
that the public has been given no
hint OF IL until today.
II is now believed that hundreds
OF diseases hitherto regarded as in
durable or of a fatal nature will be
easily prevented OF cured by means
of Prof Benedict's energy machines
Find Cheapest Food.
Prof. BeneGict's apparatuses regis
ter to a degree never before attained
not only the human pulsebeats, res
piration and temperature, but also
all forms OF energy within the body,
awake or asleep. All guesswork and
the inaccuracies of diagnosis deemed
inevitable even among the skilled
physicians are done away with.
II Is also declared that another OF
the world problems, how to reduce
living expenses to the minimum by
finding the cheapest food to give all
energy needed for days work, will
be solved.
BY means OF figures obtained from
the study of several patients suffer
ing from diabetes, It is predicted the
treatment OF this hitherto considered
fatal disease will undergo a radical
change.
In the near future 1t is said 1t will
be possible to give in figures the
amount of human energy to perform
any kind of work, the amount and
quality of food necessary to sustain
the subjects strength during its per-
Torrance, the possibilities of any per-
son for mental and physical labor
and the limitations in figures of a
persons heart, lung and kidney ac-
ton.
Can't Lie to Box.
A man may lie to his doctor. in
tentionally or not, but he cannot lie
to Prof. Benedict's energy box once
he is inside of one.
Several forms of energy meters
have been built BY Prof. Benedict and
other forms are now in process Of
construction. There are the respira-
ton meters, the first to be built;
bed meters" which are shaped and
look like great collins and in which
sick persons may lie with comfort, a
glass window at the head enabling
the one inside to look out into the
room, and many others.
One of the most interesting is the
work" machine. Inside this the sub
ject may carry on his daily work
while the energy used in the opera
ton is recorded.
Another form. not yet completed,
! is devised to hold an entire family
husband, wife and children. In this
meter the food consumed by each
member of the family and the result
ing energy will be noted, the expert
ments being recorded for each indi-
vidual and for the family as a
whole.
Reveals Each Breath.
Usually the man upon whom the
Experiments are maintained remains
In the chamber at least four days and
nights.
The interior of the chamber is
"copper" walled. An opening in front
serves as a door and window. A
smaller door at the side called the
food aperture, having tightly fitting
caps at both ends. is used for passing
food and drink. Inside there is tele
phone by which the subject may COM
muuicate with those outside. Gener-
ally the chamber is furnished with a
table, chair and bed.
The subject inside is under the
constant observation of a physician,
The pulse rate is recorded by an in
genious apparatus known as the Fstz
pneumograph, which is adjusted
about the chest and connected with
the observation table outside, where
a needle, working over smoked paper
makes a record of each heartbeat. A
similar contriyance shows each
breath taken.
4 Blood Tests Made.
During the Investigations 1t was