West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-03-04
SPHYGMOGRAPn TELLS
when YOU ARE LYMG
Also Gives You Away If You Are
in Love Betraying alf of Your
Heart Seercts-Has Relegated
the Dietosraph to the Junk
Heap

introducing DR.. Louisa Burns--anl
the sphymograph.
me sphymograph is scientino(
tale IL fits over your visit
ike wrist watch and reveal
norsHiessly to all tho world xcr1
cry hb and failing, your sacredeSI
cret' your remotcst kink OF chars( g.
ter.
Inc sphymograph. an infallibie do
tector OF duplicity. has rclegated the
photograph to the limbo OF utter use
iessness' I'm many police courts"
says Dr. Burns, 1T Is replacing the
third degree"
IN thousands of homes. also. It may
soon replace tho third degree. NOW.
uear. put on your sphymograph"
wiley Will say before she questions
hubby on his midnight arrival home.
To refuse would be confession. To
submit. equally fatal.
"Tick-tock-you're n liar--tick-tock
no you weren't at the office-tick-
tock--you were out with the boys.
tick-toclt-"
Thus merrily prattles the tell-talo
sphymograph, catching you I'm every
lie, Invariably proclaiming tho truth
you would conceal.
The sphymograph is stmpiy a deli.
cate instrument for recording every
variation OF tho pulse-beat," explain
planned DR.. Louisa Burns, former pro-
iossor In the Pacific College OF Osteo-
pathy, whose experiments with this
and similar instruments at the still
Research Institute I'm Chicago are now
attracting the attention of MANY
scientists.
1T is adjusted over the wrist" she
continued, so that mechanical fin
ger pressing upon the pulse causes a
delicate needle to move in uniformity
with the pulse-beat. A strip OF smok-
ed paper is drawn under the needle
by clock-work and upon Il the needle
traces an exact diagram of the heart
action.
"A clever actor can by his will con-
troll his facial expression--can tell a
lie with straight face, as We say
but he Is absolutely unable to con-
troll the involuntary movements of the
heart.
Take the recent case of n patient
whom we were vainly treating for
stomach trouble. At laat we decided
he was deceiving us as to his habits.
adjusted the sphymograph on his
wrist. and began talking to him on
Indifferent subjects. Suddenly / men,
toned cocaine. The record showed
Immediately pronounced Jump of the
heart, though his face remained i'm
movable Then the patient confessed
that he was victim of the drug
habit
I'm exactly this way a careful OBJ
server can detect each emotion OF hi,
patient. He cap tell whether the pa
tient Is I'm love; whether he can dis
cover the loved ones name; he can
disclose every secret of the mans life.
II believe that this sphymograph
VIII soon be considered indispensable
in all police courts. After wearing H.
on his wrist for FIVE minutes, while
engaged In apparently innocent con-
versation with detective, a criminal
could be made TO confess all OF his
crimes. And the humorous part is
that he himself would be ignorant
that he had done so until he was
sn"wn his heart had fiuttered invoI-
UNFAIRLY at the words, broken win
dow, murdered girl bloody hatchet,'
or whatever they might be I"
Chicago ma'dens are already awake
TO the possibilities OF the sphymo-
graph. In the courtship of the future
the affected pair will SIT shYly side by
side upon the sofa, chattefipg with
apparent aimlessness, but Nreally
carefully studying tho sphymograph
records upon each others wrists.
The swain will fall upon his knees to
propose only when he has assured
himself by pulse-study that the maiden
loves him, and will. answer yes"
Thus the instrument will sexe-
lovers many embarrassing situations.