Show l rs of 1 I Influence Accelerates Animal I Nade By Professor An Ann Arbor 5 J Herdman M D profesor of elee mental disorderS and I ot of the nervous s system stem at th l university of MIchigan i i just corn a remarkable series ot of ments undertaken to determine I or Or electricity can be 60 o applied as to toI I hat hasten n the development of young and growIng The experiments i were ere begun two year yearn ago and the thereof have havo included human beings a as well el as lower forms of ant ani ml mat life Ufe The results Professor Herd man say says sha shaw that ant ani animal J mal inal gro th may be accelerated greatly by the curent current Whenever a current of o electricity I tavers traverses an anime animal b body dY says Pro I feor Her Herdman man the feld field resulting from the current and stir sur it Its path must disturb in some manner the molecular physIcal and atomic chemical activities that are gOing on in the tissUe tIssues ad and fluids through the curent current of electricity cit city PMS Almos Almost everything now lo known abut about electromagnetism B senD to o imply that a magnetic feld field whether produced by a permanent magnet or by bya a reacts in Bore some manner upon al all kind kinds f matt matter within the feld field in such a as to rotate in some degree every molecule so a as to tomke tomake mke make i It aume assume a different position rom what It woud would aS assume me If not thus acted upon We have found that the most noticeably physiologIcal t to a an electric current obtained from living aimas animals is that resulting from sudden and wide wid differences In te the in of f te the curent current HavIng learned th this we e have placed the human sub of our experiments in a magnetic feld field occasioned by an alternating cur current current rent rent This hf produces no chemical chag changes in the tho body but merely ac normal chemical acton action Has Profesor Hedman Herdman ha has used a sole solenoid nold noid or hollow magnet about three teet reet in diameter I it ia i wound wih with No iO ao underwriters wire A curent current strength o ve amperes is employed an cLad the dynamo a a second so that whatever IC cc cupie the o sae by the sole solenoid nold noid f Is subjected to extremely rapid re ot magnetic stress Te The experiments on human beings s says 6 Protessor Herdman were made mad wih with a view of determining the Influence ence oZ ot thIs magnetic feld field on the meta of as determined by the quantity of waste yate matter Metabolism j is the technical term for tI the act or process by which on the one had hand the dea dead food I is bun built up into living matter and by which on the other oter the IvinS living matte matter Is broken down into simpler Is product products cel cell or organ Three subject were chosen sa says the professor Two of coen thorn them were healthy students of medi medicIne cIne and the oher other 0 a man of 38 ho hoor hoor or to two year years had bad ben been suffering from shang shaking pa paralysis but who ade aside front from this nervous affection was in fair The diet W was 6 in amount and variety for a a subjecting them to the magnetic ac action tion in each case and an estimate of the wae waste ws was md daly daily Then for for a weeks time without of diet or manne manner of f Ih living i ii ay any other respect ea each ot of the thee three was placed in Iii the solenoid comfortably out outstretched stretched on a a platform ad and kept there for two hours each day their boies bodies pervaded by an alternating curent current of the average strength aboe boe mentioned In ech each case there was a daly daily in Increase crea crease of about ten pe per cent in the te aunt amount ot of waste eliminated dUrn during the time the subject was as in the feld field No other could be maet detect ld by this metho method of observation Tere There S WN WP no apparent apparent change jn in the depth or frequency of respiration nor In the strength or frequency of the pulse or tenIon though had more deli ct or exact methods of testing for such chag changes ta than te the unaided ee eie ani anti touch been employed it Is possIble that some difference In tese these would have been observed The subJects s were conscious or of no change In except that the patent patient that the wih with shaking reported period spent within the coil had a soothing and quieting effect upon coi him an and that the violence of his mus I euler cular tremor was was also much reduced for several houn hours after each reduce exposure Sometimes Professor Herdman Profesor uses a ues I couch of his own devising of the Whoever reclines upon this couch Is in a perfect mag netie feld field produced b by magnets magnets Nerv our peons persons who lie upon it almOt almost in variably become drowsy at once and son soon fal fail asleep leep Growth Ac Professor experIments upon sal small animals have hive been more ex tended than UpOn Uon men me A As soon as they were old ld enough to bear on separation a te from theIr mother mothers a lot ot of guinea pigs or rabbits pig was 01 divided into two groups as nearly alike in alke age and weight a as Possible and were carefully Ech Each group was subjected to conditions weighed in all al respects except that from 5 each evening tl till mid night one group was placed in a cage made of No 10 underwriters wire through u W which a u five ampere wih with alternatIons a second was pase passed while the other bunch was placed In an exactly similar coil not coi nt connected with the curent current circuIt This plan wa was pursued wih with eh each pair of grus groups selected until they had reached theIr fl full growth or from sIx to twelve weeks according to the age ot of the animals at the beginning of the he cx e Herdman Without tim the exception anImals says immersed in animas the alternating curent current began to out strip the others in weight at the end of the frt first week ld and gaIn of from 18 to 24 per cent in favor of the onI ani parent mals within each th the magnetic feld field week wa was until ap they neared the periOd of full develop ful ment when the weekly gain became perceptibly less bece During the two years ten separate groups of animals have been I merited upon either in the field or as feld a each group containing front from three to five animals and uniformly those placed in the magnetic gave feid evidence for tor the frt first few week weeks of ac nutritive acton action In the ce case of two groups when the experiment was continued beyond eight weeks the cute curve of increase shown by the mag animas animals whIch un until thep ran t the rn 20 pe per cent hIgher than han that of the other group declined at the end of the twelfth week their weight other had falen fallen group a little below that of the I uI It is i an interesting fat fact that the janior janitor who has charge of these ani male mals and who is a shrewd observer but without knowledge a as to the pur pose ot of the experiment caled called my at tenton to the fact that thoe those placed within te the magnetic feld field spen spent much more time in slee during the daytime that is when th current was with draw drawn than did id the other group w wih but in no other u f in t did he or I difference in their appearance or r conduct As far a as these experiments go they appe appear to show that alternating mag stess stress is in some way related to a quickened d metabolism of tissue that energy gos goes through some sort of transformation and t reappears a as physiological energy Growth can undoubtedly be accelerated by the use or of electricity but i it must be admitted that the growth thus obtained is un healthy and in the end is Is to ma animal or imal Such dis diseases eases 1 s rheumatism gout and disorders produced by defective wi will in time be treated successfully by methods lar to employed in the mets ments described that is by enclosing the patent patient for a short period each day until improvement Is effected in an electromagnetic feld field J r OLIVER CURWOOD no is a a Finn singular fac fact that until a a year ear ago Ws wa ever known to be 01 In t the e in e nihilist other or in any ohe against the crar Should te they hey join join the revolutionists c tm Is feared at St and the of the latter will b be cr Or Of a a te latte wl Ia cOurse there It is one thing to watch political refugees in this court coun try and tr another to terrorize to them and attempt their lives and while there ae are plenty of people ready to admit and beleve believe te the fore former hesitation be expected may about abut giving credence latter But to the famous Parn Parnell one has only to cl te the and to l TIme Times s suit It 1 u Landon ad rembe remember the of the British Caron In secret agent ajor Le ord order te that work of the kind Ia tat which ln in he e Ws engaged in watching sad engage ot of the counteracting 1 the plot t and ot of other Irl a o nICe societies In l siete to the employment t of extra extra legal and even eyen t leal ad criminal methods it Is metod I merly merely point out that the pint me men empl employed ed a as I are a as ct rule as f they as are bold and that any qualms of fl fel about resorting Which the they might even to murder would be st set at rest by the belief res tat that tey they are dealing with the thc enemies of theIr country with county people beyond the pale of their law pae with In tact fact whom they would wih as or of the government he be to shoot in shot extreme cases i if sti still in theIr own count country A police agent who SuCceeds in bringing about the death or of some more or less mor notorious nihilist who ha has taken refuge in the United State States certainly does Unie do not dream for one moment tha that he ha has perpetrated any crime or done anything else than eLe tha a pIece niece of good D and ni loval tn hla 1 government and to his Thus Baon Baron who was at the head of that Corsican corps of the palace police that watched over the safety of Napleon Napoleon II III boldly admit admits In lila published reminiscences that he caused O one of hs hIs agent agents named fat to 10 foll to London an Italian ot of the name nama o implicated in a Mac conspiracy the French Ma emperor and nd that by bis GIS UPs orders omers stabbed tn con In the tha back to the heart the heat body of being ng subsequently found lathe Thame Thames This was one of analogous perpetrated bY the the baron and nd by hs his agents pa conspirators who sought th the p life of hIs hl mahtar the Emperor Napoleon Only a few year years ago the Swiss auth ie expelled from their country a Ger countr aGe man secret t polee police ago agent ent who in h hI I eagerness to induce Geran refugees to perpetrate some ome offense that would bring them within orene t tem the reah or of th treaty h had d rendered himself ot of cime crime while i It is only necessary to refe refer to the celebrated trial of the forer former chIef ot of the kaisers palace police the infamous Baron auch in order to to convince oneself that when engaged in secret secre service vice men of hIs tye type do not hesitate at for gery or perjury Te The ChInese physician Dr Sun Yat Sen a dUly naturalized British citi ci zen the graduate of a an American uni verity and a Christan Christian was shadowed un ever every hour uter after his three months showed stay in th this country by four emissaries of the Chinee Chinese government seeking an a Opportunity to assassinate hm him in cn con sequence of a ix leadIng pat part he ha has ten taken in the reform movement at Pekin and when sUbs subsequently he reached London he was literally whisked of off of one of Df the mot most lEaly fah fash thoroughfares of London in i broad without any trace of It was 5 o only by chac chance that the three week weeks t later his English frie s discovered that he he had been capture captured by the emissaries of his government that he was imprisoned in the Chinee Chinese embassy In London ad and that the envoy had made arrangements for tor hIs beIng secretly shipped bak back to China cosely closely confined in the hold of one Of of the steamers of the Glen line whIch Is heavily subsidIzed by lne the Pekin government I It required te the most peremptory and rigorous action on the part of Lord Salsbury Salisbury to secure aon the immediate release of the doctor who has agan again been lost to sight for tor about two years ea and has probably once m mire re falen fallen te the hand hands of is one ene enemies roles mies when he be wrote ote Fe dora dora wa was severely chided by some critics for tor presenting i It a as a possibility that his hero when wanted by te the Rusian Russian could be abroad and secretly deporte deported to St Petersburg The story of te the ChIese Chinese doctor just quoted shows that teg at French playwright wa was gi guilty of no exaggeration in the matter ad and there Is ever every rason reason to beleve believe that the in instance stanc stance In queston question is bYno by no means an j isolated one There are othe other ces cases i known of people who have been spirit spirited I ed away from ParIs to St St Petersburg sometimes on board steam launcher I down the SeIne to Havre by b V rai rail under the Influence o of drugs or I uder u ader restraint a as alleged lunatics I F rem London score scores of Russian Russian Cn con S have been in the th 1 sae Si tine way as Dr Sun and shipped of I to t Riga on bard board u oviC ships spending si the time Intervening I theIr ti capture and their embarkation at al I Ithe the ti te headquarter headquarters of the czars detec ti yes in the British metropolis Win knows k indeed that Russian tors t rs have not ben been Shanghaied in New NewYork r York i ork and other seaport cItes cities of the U States by Muscovite govern ment ix tent agent agents and nd place placed on t men ix ien ot of war or een even upon liners for ft r Russian ports In nine cs cases out on I ot o f ten no one would be the wiser and an I shoud s hould the authorities there here beme t of the and of ware aware a the re removal toval moval ix of the person from this count against a his Wi will theIr disposition would I be b ba e to lt keep ep the mater matter quiet in order orde t to ti a avoid international complications I Iad ruth is often stranger tha than feton fiction ad a ad one need only think of te the strange device d adopted even by Am American 0 of 11 ad arid private detectives to seure secure bona b ona fide criminals who have sought r in co with which there ae a re no extradition treaties In Ia orde order to f idea of the orm an may many for fary nar r ary dramas and even tragedies mot most ly I rI I unwritten that are constantly tak ing i place among the re rest t cuts of the United Stat t in St |