The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-06

Currents of electricity flow
through your nerves.
These currents are the life of your
body and so long as they remain per-
feet yon will live and remain well.
When they become imperfect. how
ever, your health will become inn
paired and when this imperfectiOn
reaches a certain degree you will
die.
Your nerves are like threads,
strands or cords. They are COM
posed of two parts, the outside or
sheath-a tough, elastic substance
and the inside or cylinder--a
soft jelly-like substance;
The brain generates the electric
ity which runs your body and is con-
Quoted from the brain to the various
organs, glands, muscles and parts by
this jelly-like axis cylinder on che
inside of your nerves.
Each nerve under normal condi-
tions, whether 1t be a thread, strand
or cord. conducts and transmits one
hundred units of electricity power
from the brain to the parts to which
the nerve goes
While the amount of electricity
represented by unit varies with
the size of nerves, still each nerve,
when in perfect condition, transmits
one hundred units of power-that is,
one hundred per cent of power. All
OF anything Is one nuUdIeu per cent
of it. Therefore. all the electricity
which any nerve can transmit
whether it be nerve thread no
larger than hair, or nerve cora
as large as lead pencil, Is one
hundred per cent.
The one hundred units, or the one
hundred per cent, simply means nor
NAL QUANTITY for any given
nerve.
In dealing with this new science
T.. nd
of vast importance and that is the
word QUANTITY,
If the normal condition of the soft
jelly-li substance on the inside of
"a nerve-the axis cylinder-is dis
turbed, that nerve becomes at once
una BILE to transmit its normal GUAM
TITY of electric power.
For instance. if the nerves running
from the brain to the heart be cut
In two, the heart stops at once and
nerves be grasped between the
blades of pair of steel pincers and
SQUEEZED with sufficient tight
ness to disturb the condition of the
axis cylinder, the heart begins to
show signs of distress the pulse
becomes weak. and in time. if the
pincers be not removed, the heart
stops and death follows just as if
the nerves had been severed
SQUEEZING the aXis-cylinder of
gether the electric current flowing
through it and weakness or death of
the part to which that nerve goes
follows.
Cut the nerves running from the
brain to the muscles of the leg and
the leg becomes paralyzed. Squeeze
these nerves S before described and
paralysis also follows.
Cut the nerves running from the
brain to the kidneys and these or
gans at once cease to perform their
function. Squeezing the same nerves
is followed by the same result
The electric power which runs the
body is generated in the brain and
flows out to all the various organs
and parts through the axis cylinder
of nerves.
In order that any organ or part
NAV receive its normal QUANTITY
of electric power, the axis cylinder
of the nerves connecting IT with the
brain must be free from PRESSURE.
While severed nerves are eX-
tremely rare. occurring only in case
Of severe injury, squeezed nerves are
of the most common occurrence,
causing more sickness and death
than all other physical causes COM
bined.
The squeezing of the nerves which
is of such common occurrence and
followed by such disastrous conse-
auences. is usually found at the
Joints of the spine.
These joints, twenty-four in num-
her are SWITCHES through which
the nerves pass from the brain TO the
heart and other vital organs and
parts of the body. So long as these
switches remain fully open the
nerves pass through them unhamp
cred But any tightening, turning.
closing, or other imperfection of
Joint will result in catching the
nerve where il passes between these
bones, and squeezing it. The effect
is lust the same, owing to the hard
substance of bone. as If the nerves
were squeezed by pair of pincers.
These joints of the spine are the
most peculiar joints in all the world
peculiar because a thick. spongy
cushion enters into the construc
lion of each of them.
These cushions resemble spongy,
,orus rubber. They are normally
ibout fourth of an inch thick
md make up about one twelfth of
he height If you are five feet.
six inches tall and in perfect condi-
ion about five and e-half inches
of your height is due to these
kwenty-four CUSHIONS placed be-
tween the bones on your spine.
These cushions when in perfect
condition perform two important Of
tees:
4 They make possible the varied