The Washington times., 1922-06-13
Electricity Increases
the Weight Of Man,
SAYS Frenchnaan 4.

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4 FRENCH scientist Of Bordeaux has announced
~ that he can Increase the weight Of q human
being by applications of electricity. This in
terests few who understand what little is known
about matter and force. II amuses many who
loosely suggest electric volts instead Of expensive
beefsteaks. ss ~. N. a
The of electricity, in the hands Of SCIENTISTS
not of charatans reckless makers Of experiments
will play more and more important part in the
treating of disease and many physical complica-.
tions with which are afflicted @s .t.s 4 q, rs
Man is in reality an electric machine, made mp
of electric particles. There are certain number
of so-called elements" in the universe. These
elements number fewer than hundred-and .
majority of them can be found in the human body
They also be found, as the spectroscope shows
u.s. in the distant stars. These different elements
are made up Of molecules and the molecules in
their turn are made of atoms. ~. \ Essg
Men used to believe that the atom was the small
est thing. The name comes from the Greek word
"temno" to cut. The prefix ga" is put before
it and makes "atom" mean "uncuttable." The
scientists thought the atom small that it could
lot be cut And they thought they had thus settled
the construction of matter ~ 5%5 q :.
Now, however, we know that each atom Is di-
vided into a number of "electrons." The atom Of
hydrogen has certain number Of dozens Of cleo
irons, and the atoms in the various other elements
each have their electron makeup. ;:Es...' -.
The electron is so called because it is mani
festation of electricity. Thus we see that man,
with his hair, his teeth, his bones, his muscles,
his nerves, is simply collection Of electrons, COM
bined in the units and molecules of various ele-
ments. -. .s+'t tt>
There is no reason why machine like the human
body, made up of electrons and guided by Icon
sciousness" or Esprit" or "soul," should not be
fed largely and successfully upon electricity.
AS matter of fact, the body does its work very
much like an electric machine. ... .,, -,-t ,
When your brain sends an order through one Of
the nerves, and sets a muscle in operation there
is/an electrical explosion at the end of the nerve
and then the muscle works. -.
We do the work of our bodies, the hard work,
NOT with the food that eat-that is chiefly used
in making new tissues and repairing what we wear
out. Our real work is done with the air taken into
the lungs The iron in the red corpuscles carries
the electric force all through the body in the blood
vessels feeding the thousands of millions Of cells,
every one of which eats and drinks and breathes
separately just the individual man does
You can live forty days without food, seven days
without water-THREE MINUTES WITHOUT
AIR The real force comes from the air. with its
oxygen and its electric force, keeping you alive
and at work. - ,A-:''..
Remember that when you foolishly shut your
windows tight at night. i.<. t..r:::s ~ y
AS men become civilized they will rely less on
brutal power and more on thought, they will live
less on material food and depend more on higher
and subtler forces. ,>s3 = ! -
Eventually, in a few millions of years at the most,
man will probably be an electric body; the solids
and the liquids that he absorbs will be- very few
compared with these days. He will not feed npon
the flesh of dead animals, but will find food in
higher and nobler source. - >[%,, H.. j"
Just at present, while we all live on dead meat,
numbering and eating the lower animals to keep
ourselves going, we are inclined to laugh ut the
very simple proposition that electricity ought to be
a good food for an electric being. >i.%. ~
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