The Washington times., 1922-05-14

can read the daily radio programme, equip
themselves with applicators, and take their
daily walk about the radio stations. An
especially constructed bag, containing much
metal. will be a powerful magnet Of the
wireless waves. A wire cage can be secreted
within the ribbons and flowers or the vel
vet and plumes of woman's hat. Here
tofore If a woman wore many bracelets
we have thought it harmless vanity O.
reversion TO a barbaric type.
Now If we find her lingering in the
neighborhood of radio station we sus
pect her of getting free treatments for
obesity or neuritis or auto-intoxication
Or an aenemic young woman whose ankles
clank as she walks may not be of bizarre
tastes, leaner toward the Oriental man.
ner, but one who would derive tonic from
radio waves!
The thyroid gland receives much atten-
tion from obesity specialists. It is a
shield-shaped gland in the throat and be.
longs 10 the well-known family of the
ductless glands. 1t is known that the
thyroid in some way helps govern the fat
ness or thinness of the body. The thyroids
Of animals are cut up or ground into DOW.
der and taken by obesity patients. This
remedy is prescribed by some physicians
TO supply the lack OF activity Of that
organ in their overweight patients
BY means Of the electro-magnetic wave
bath which DR.. Channe has invented a
strong current of ELECTROMAGNETIC waves
is turned upon the thyroid gland. stimu-
lating its activity. The patient by using
an appliCator could. herself. draw the
waves from the surrounding air and d.
rect them to the quickeniDg of the func-
tions of the thyroid
That electricity in some form or another
has very great deal to do with our health
and indeed. the whole work of our bodies
is being more and more widely recognized.
II is more than possible that our nervous
force is only electricity in certain FORM
Inc nerves are rs much wires along
Whlch current travels 10 the brain as are
me wires between telegraph and tele-
phone poles.
or this DR.. William r. Howell. professor
of Physiology in the Johns Hopkins Uni.
versity at Baltimore, says:
'The question Of the Iature of the nerve
impulse has always aroused the deepest
interest among psychologists. 1t has con.
stituted, indeed, central question around
which has revolved various hypotheses
concerning the nature of living matter.
For many years the prevalent view was
that the nerves were essentially tubes
through which flows an exceedingly fine
matter of the nature of air or gas known
as the animal spirits. Others conceived
this fluid to be OF a grosser structure, like
water, and described 1t as the nerve Juice
Various suggestions have been offered but
the one which is perhaps most worthy of
consideration Identifies the nerve impulse
with the negative electric charge that is
known to pass along the fibre"
This being so, it Is not hard to undeT.
stand that the collection of the energy in
the wireless waves and it's intelligent ap.
plication 10 our bodies may very well
amplify and tone up the natural nerve cur.
rents upon which so many OF our bodily
processes depend.
Study Of the nature of nerve force Is one
of the most important of medical sciences
duties today. The effect of electric cur.
rents and magnetic fields upon growing
plants has recently been the subject of a
number of experiments, and some very
curious facts have been observed. II may
well be that in the energy Of radio we have
something that, properly directed and used.
may give us an interesting and far more
important new knowledge about the or
iered jungle--or garden--of the body cells
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