Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-26
MAX|M'S NEWEST IDEA
SmokeIeSS Powder Inventor Now
Plans to Lengthen Life.
TO USE CHLORINE SOLUTION.
Believes He Can Force It by Electricity
Through All Parts of Body-Death
Dealing Ability Will Be Turned to
Killing Disease Germs-Features Of
His Device.


Dealing Ability Will Be Turned to
Killing Disease Germs-Features Of
His Device.
Hudson Maxim, inventor of tie max
Unite smokeless powder, high explo-
sives and torpedoes which are the most
powerful life destroying agents in the
history Of the world, has suddenly
turned his line of effort from the field
of death and is working assiduously
along lines entirely opposite. His pres
ent efforts are being devoted to the
perfection of device that will cure all
disease with solution of chlorine
passed through the human body by the
aid of electricity.
Already drawings Of the cabinet in
which the treatment is to be adminis-
tered have been filed in the patent Of
fee at Washington, and the great in-
ventor expects soon to be granted his
patent All that he is now looking for
IS the proper electric current-one that
has Il higher potential than any hereto
fore used safely on We human body.
The great inventor was seen at his
villa, situated picturesquely on the
shore of Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey.
81 can hardly explain" he said to
reporter of the New York American,
"how l turned from the manufacture
of instruments of death to the inven-
tion of something that will prolong hui
man life. I've seen the success Of one,
and perhaps | am tired of that and de-
sire something new. | have great faith
in my newest idea and hope that 1t
will become a practical part of life,
and before long too / wish to say
frankly, however, that at the present
time it is in embryo, but it is none the
less, to my mind, perfectly practical.
"a good deal Of experimenting has
already been done by different medical
men with high potential electric cur
rents, both for the direct germicidal in
huence of the electricity itself and also
for the purpose of passing remedial
agents into the tissues, but no great
success has yet been attained.
my idea is to use electric currents
Of very much higher potential than
heretofore. OF course The amperage
of the current need not be great.
y wen hHO"H pIOCcSS VI uldhlllS
chlorate of sodium and chlorate of pot>
ash is by passing chlorine out of solu-
ton through a partition impervious to
the flow Of a liquid, but previous to
the passage of the molecules of chic
rine under the influence of the electric
current, so that the potash solution on
receiving the chlorine through the i'm
pervious partition is converted into
chlorate of potash.
"My idea is TO interpose the human
body as a portion of such partition and
to pass chlorine, or an equivalent rem
edial agent, through the human body
by means of n very high potential
electric current of low amperaGe."
"Then do you claim prolonged life
for mankind?" was asked.
"By killing the disease germs in q
mans body you naturally lengthen his
life" responded the inventor.
But do you claim or expect that you
can prolong life inde6nitely?" persist
cd the interviewer.
NO" quickly answered Mr.. Maxim,
because death is as much part of
life as is birth. Life can only be pro-
lonGed in the human body to a certain
point. If my device proves successful
we shall be able to do what Bob In
gersoll said he would do If he was God
Almighty-'make good health catch
ing"
At the request of the reporter Mr..
Maxim made diagram of his new
device. 1t will be cabinet of CON
siderable size and will be divided into
three parts. On either side will be
| tanks. One will hold an alkaline So
luton, while the other will contain Il
solution of chlorine. In the compart-
ment between these two. wherein will
sit the patient under treatment will
be another solution, which is the Sc
cret of the whole thing. Its nature
| the inventor refused to make known
In the two outer compartments are
powerful electrodes, and by the cleo
tricity as the agent the chemicals from
the various solutions Will be passed
through the body.
The main idea is to interpose the
human body as a part of the dla-
phragm. in electro osmosis. or catapho-
resis, and in this way force the germ
| killing chemicals into and through the
human tissues lymph and blood.