Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-01-20
ENERGY MACHINE
WONDERFUL INVENTION Will [
AID WAR ON DIe.AsE.
Accurately Registers An Forms Of
Energy in the Human Body
Amount of Food Needed
Also Determined.

BoSton.--SO marvellous have beef
the results OF wonderful series Of ex
! periments which are being carried OF
in.the Carnegie nutrition laboratory OF
Villa street, Roxbury, to determine
mechanically and scientifically the
exact amount of energy in any human
being, that to-day the entire world o.
medicine is ready to hail this savant
as one of the greatest benefactors Of
suffering humanity.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is Prof
Francis Gano Benedict, who, when in
structor at Wesleyan university, as
sisted the late Prof W.. o. Atwater in
the construction of his ealormiter and
since has elaborated it to wonderful
degree until he has evolved an energy
machine" by means of which, 1t is
claimed hundreds of diseases hitherto
regarded as incurable can be easily
prevented.
These marvels of mechanical sci
ence register to a degree never before
attained not only the human pulse
beats, respirations and temperature
but also all forms of energy that are
active within the body, whether the
patient be awake or asleep.
With one of these machines all
guesswork and inaccuracies of dag
nosis, to-day deemed inevitable even
among the most skilled physicians, is
done away with forever. The amount,
of energy furnished to the human sys
TEN by a pound of beefsteak, an egg,
or vegetable soup can be determined
TO an absolute figure.
1t also is declared that another of
the worlds problems, that of reduc-
ing the cost of human nutrition to the
minimum degree, likewise will be
solved by these marvellous machines.
In the near future, 1t 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 neces-
sary to sustain the subjects strength
during it's performance, the pos
sibilities of any person for men
tai and physical labor, the limita
tion in the figures of persons heart,
lung or kidney action, and hundred
and one numerical details which hith
erto have been possible only in gen.
eral terms.
Living men are placed in the ma
chimes. and there isolated as complete
ly as If they were on another planet:
then the manifold, devious chemical
processes. going on within their bod
les are precisely observed and re-
corded.
BY recent experiments with patients
taken from different hospitals of the
city Prof Benedict furnished physi
clans with facts which never before
had been known to medical science
BY means of figures obtained
from the study of several patients suf-
fering from diabetes, who, it is said,
were transferred from the Deaconess
hospital in Brooknne to the Carnegie
nutrition laboratory, it was predict
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this hitherto considered fatal disease
would be likely to undergo radical
change.
Patients afflicted with typhoid soon
are to be made subject to experiments
with the energy machines, and Boston
physicians are eagerly awaiting the
results of these observations, expect.
ing them to shed new light upon
this disease.
One of the most interesting ma
chimes is the work" machine. Inside
this the subject may carry on his daily
work while the energy used in the OPP
GRAFTON is recorded Another form
not yet completed is devised to hold
an entire family-husband, wife and
children. In this meter the food con-
sumed by each member Of the family
and the resulting energy will be noted
the experiments being recorded for
each individual and for the family as
a whole. Usually the man upon whom
the experiments are made remains in
the chamber at least four days and
nights.