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Show ELECTRICITY IN STOMACH " California Physician Says . Food Is Digested by Current. - BAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 7. In an experiment ex-periment conducted by Dr. Albert J. Atkins At-kins of the California Medical college on the living stomach of a healthy man. It has been demonstrated that the organ or-gan is electrical in its action. The experiment consisted in the introduction in-troduction of a specially prepared electrode elec-trode into the stomach by having the man swallow it. When the electrodes were brought in contact with about an Inch square of the wall of the organ the galvanometer registered nearly ten mll-11-volts of direct electrical current. It is claimed that this action proves that the whole process of disgestion 'is an electro-chemic one, also that this -current In the walls of the stomach prevents pre-vents the digestion of the stomacB by . its own Juices. " |