Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
LIVE IN ENERGY CAGE.
Professor Evolves Machine He Declares
Nav Prevent Disease,

Boston, Dec. 22.-The mysteries of
the body may be read as If an open
book. So marvellous have been the re-
suits of a wonderful series of expert
ments which are being carried on in
1.-THE Carnegie nutrition laboratory to
determine automatically and scientifi-
cally the exact amount of energy in
any human being, that today the entire
world of medicine is ready to hail this
savant as one of the greatest benefac-
tors of suffering humanity. The expert
menter- in chief is Prof. Francis
Gano Benedict who, when instructor
at Wesleyan university, assisted the
late Prof. w. o. Atwater in the
construction of his calorimeter, and
since has elaborated it to a wonderful
degree until he has evolved an EN-
ergy machine" by means of which, 1t
is alleged, hundreds of diseases hither-
to regarded as incurable can be pre-
vented easily.
These marvels of mechanical science
register to degree never before at
tanned not only the human pulse beats,
respiration and temperature. but also
all forms of energy that are active
within the body, whether the patient
be awake or asleep.
With one ofsthese machines all guess
work and inaccuracies of diagnosis to-
day deemed inevitable, even among the
most skilled physicians, are done away
with forever. The amount Of energy
furnished to the human system by a
pound of beefsteall, an egg or vege-
table soup can be determined to an
absolute figure.
tt also is declared that another of
the worlds problems, that of reducing
the cost of human nutrition to the
minimum degree, likewise will be
solved by these marvellous machines.
In the near future, it is said, it will
be possible to give in figures the
amount of human energy required to
perform any kind of work, the amount
and quality of food necessary to sus-
tain the subjects strength during us
performance, the possibilities of any
person for mental and physical labors,
| the limitation in the figures of per-
sons heart, lung or kidney action. and
hundred and one numerical details
which hitherto have been possible only
in general terms.
Living men are pldCSu III CliS ''iS'
chimes and there isolated as complete
lily as if they We're on another planet
and the manifold, devious chemical
processes going on within their bodies
can be precisely observed and record
| ed.
Starting out with the idea of study
| ing nutrition problems, Professor Ben
edict's research has been greatly ex-
tended. He has built several forms OF
energy meters. There are respiration
meters, the first to be built, and bed
meters, which are shaped and look like
great collins and in which sick people
may lie with comfort.
One of the most interesting machines
I is the 'twork> machine" Inside this
the subject may carry on his daily
work while the energy used in the OPP
Grafton is recorded. Another form moi
vet completed is devised to hold an en-
tire family-husband wife and chill
dren In this meter, the food consumed
by each member Of the family and the
resulting energy will be noted, the ex-
periments being recorded for each in
dividual, and for the family as 8
whole Usually the man upon whom
the experiments are made remains in
the chamber at least four days and
nights.
Personal experience with tube Of
J it is immediate relief for all forms Of
piles. Guaranteed, soc. B. A. Morgan's
drug store.