Show claim of psychic exposed by science berlin another psychic psych lc phenomenon no backed up by photographic evidence has been upset with nothing more than a rubber glove filled with water plus a common alarm clock dr julius von rles ries a well known physician tells of a woman living at geneva who believed she was possessed of the power of animal magnetism and practiced the laying on of hands to cure the sick in an effort to learn whether any physical emanation actually did come out from her hands she laid her left hand on an a covered photographic plate and kept it there for half an hour after development the plate showed a luminous print the size and shape of her hand with what seemed to be short rays streaming out dr von aoh rles ries was somewhat skeptical ile he tried the experiment over again and got the same luminous print then he substituted a rubber glove filled with warm water for the living hand weighted down with a running alarm clock to simulate the pulse and again got the same pattern I 1 finally he used a glass vessel filled with water and weighted down with the clock and once more got a print this time the shape of tho the bottom of the glass lie ile concludes therefore that the photographic effect Is not psychical but physics |