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Scientists Explain the
Benefits and Dangers of
Professor Arrhenius' Dis*
covery 7 hat the Develop*
went of Children May Be
Hastened by Electricity.
f-r-s HE cable has brought the astonish.
i Ing news that Professor Svante
Arrhenius, the famous Swedish
scientist, has doubled the growth of
school children by electrical treatment.
He doubled their growth just as the
growth of bean bearing plants had been
accelerated by the same meads.
The explanatio'n of the increased growth
lies chiefly in the fact that the high
frequency current employed hastens the
oxidation of the tissues. Oxidation is the
process by which the waste-products of
the body are burned up. Without oxidation
we should die quickly of poison. With
perfect oxidation our present length of
life would be doubled, perhaps tripled. The
high-frequency current carries oxygen into
the tissues.
It is reasonable to expect that n process
which improves health would accelerate
growth in the young. The vital forces
which produce growth would with perfect
oxidation enjoy an unchecked course.
But there is a possibility that hastening
the growth may diminish the vitality of
the child, especially if this growth is
carried much beyond the hitherto natural
rate. Some observers state that plants
whose growth was promoted by electricity
showed less hardiness than those grown
under ordinary condition. This is a point
of view being debated by scientists with
much keenness.
The Arrhenius discovery follows upon a
series of allied experiments recently made
on plants It has been proved that if an
electric current is run through the earth
su-rounding the roots of a plant and
through the air above the plant its growth
will be materially accelerated and the
size of the product greatly increased. Pro
fessor Arrhenius has now shown that
exactly the same effects can be produced
on human beings.
His experiment was tried on a class of
school children who for a period of six
months occupied a room in which an elec
trical apparatus generating alternating
currents of very high frequency had been
installed. The children were quite un
aware that they were being experimented
upon, and although the powerful currents
were being constantly sent through them,
experienced no sensation. An adjoining
room not so equipped was occupied by
another class of children of approximately
the same ages .weight and height and
mental attainments.
At the commencement of the experi
ment, each child in both rooms W’as
weighed and measured and subjected to
various tests calculated to reveal its
exact physical condition, while carefully
devised mental tests brought out the
necessary data regarding the children’s
mental status.
At the end of the test period all the
children were put through similar tests,
and a comparison of the two records
showed that the children who had been
subjected to the electric wave treatment
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had developed, physically and mentally
just twice as much as the children in the
adjoining room.
Dr. William James Morton, the originator
of high frequency currents and for twenty
years professor of electro therapeutics in
the New York Post Graduate Medical
School and Hospital, discussed and ex
plained Professor Arrhenius’s experiments
in an interview with a representative of
this newspaper.
“We have been using high frequency
currents for a long time to cure sick
ness.” he said, “but Professor Arrhenius’s
experiments would indicate that they may
now be used with even greater advantage
in health.
“The time will come, J believe, when
not only the school room, the hospital and
t. sanitarium will be equipped with high
frequency current chambers, but when
every private dwelling will be so provided.
“The electrical room will then be con
sidered as indispensable a feature of the
home as the bathroom is to-day. Men
will resort to it to read their morning
papers, undergoing the wonderful life
giving treatment for an hour or so before
going downtown. The women folks and
the children will spend the best part of
the day under the came healthful condi
tions. Sickness will be to a great extent
"liminated, and the term of human life
will be materially lengthened. The man
of the future may live to be over a
hundred with ease.”
Emile Bachelet, the inventor of an ap
paratus for utilizing magnetic lines of
force generated by an alternating cur
rent, and for eight years State Electrician
for the State of Washington, on the other
hand, was Inclined to minimize the im
portance of Arrhenius’s discovery.
"I have made the experiment with
plants,” he said, “and I invariably found
that though under electric stimulation
the plant grew faster and larger, it was
more fragile than those grown under
natural conditions.
“That is probably also true of Arrhenius’s
electrically-grown school children. The
fact is you can’t ‘beat nature.' You may
make a candle burn lighter by supplying
oxygen to it, but it will be consumed
faster.
“For this reason I doubt whether there
is much to be gained in making normal
school children grow faster. A giant's
size is of little avail without a giant’s
strength.
“With abnormal children, however, the
principle applied by Arrhenius may be of
great' value I refer to those children in
w 1 m i normal physical growth is retarded
by constitutional defects. There, the elec
tric current may provide the necessary
stimulus to overcome the difficulty and
t_e child may be brought up to a norma!
condition.”
Although scientific men differ so much
on the importance of Arrhenius's experi
ment, they are agreed upon the manner tn
which it operates.
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How Frufestor Arrhenius was able to
perform bis experiment without
the knowledge of the cbildr* n is
illustrated in this picture, which
shows the Bachelet apparatus oper
ating in a similar manner through
walls.
Invisible magnetic lines of force gen-
erated by an alternating current are •
here passing through the child, who experiences no sensation, and is unawa-e that she
is being treated. This apparatus, invented by Emile Bachelet, has been use<> for many
years >n the treatment of various diseases.
children, the room was equipped with a
special apparatus, which generated power
ful electric current of very high fre
quency. This current created electrical
waves like rhe Hertzian waves and those
used in wireless telegraphy, which tra
versed the room constantly and pene
trated the bodies of the children.
These wave currents may disturb the
air, but do not change its chemical con
stituents in any way. The children's
growth was not affected because they
breathed a different kind of air-—it was
no different. The current simply pene
trated the children's bodies and set up
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children. Plant No. 17 and Plant No. 16 are
be seen, hae developed more quickly than
pods. Plant No. 17 was stimulated by elec
charged wire net shown above it. Plant No.
that plants so stimulated are less hardy tha
This result casts doubt in some scientists’
•or Arrhenius
what has been referred to as a sort
of “molecular massage” or “tissue-gym
nastics. The tiny particles of which the
body is composed are constantly in mo
tion, and this caused them to move about
in a livelier fashion and Increase In num
. ber. This unusual activity of the mole
cules of the human body brings about in
creased oxidation —the burning up of the
waste products of the body by oxygen.
The importance of the process of oxida
tion will be better understood when it is re
membered that, food is valuable to animals
only in so far as it is converted into tissue
or fuel. Beyond that it is positively ha~m-
of the same age. But Plant No. 17, it will
No. 16 and is already laden with its bean
trie currents in the field created by the
16 was unstimulated. But it has been found
n those left to grow by nature’s method,
minds upon the permanent value of Profes
’» experiment.
of school children to powerful, but impercep
tible, high-frequency, alternating electric cur
rents to make them bigger and brighter. The
experiment covered a period of six months,
and at the end of that time it was found that
the development of these children was just
twice that of the children in an adjoining
classroom not so equipped. Here the electric
waves are shown passing through the school
room and the children from the apparatus be
hind the walls. ,
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ful. Indeed, what Is left over—the waste
products —would prove fatal very quickly
but for the fact, that in various ways it
Is eliminated from the body. When these
waste products come into contact with
oxygen-laden blood they are consumed,
converted into carbonic acid ga.s and
given off in that form. That is what is
known as oxidation, and it is that process
wh'ch Arrhenius has perfected in his
electrically-grown children.
Actual experiments performed by Pro
fessor D’Arsonval, of the College of
France, have demonstrated that the
amount of carbonic acid gas given off is
increased 30 per cent, under the influence
of high frequency currents. Uric acid is
transformed by oxidation into urea, a
harmless substance, and many other
poisonous products are similarly dis
posed of. By perfecting this process of
oxidation, Arrhenius argued that many of
he diseases caused by unexpelled waste
matter might be eliminated.
Whether or not this increase of oxida
tion may not have harmful reactionary
effects has still, however, to be settled.
The stimulus obtained from alcohol and
other drugs provides energy and enables
one to make greater efforts temporarily,
but the reaction often works more harm
than the stimulant did good.
Thus, too, it has been found that while
athletes can perform when oxygen is ad
ministered to them, they suffer greatly
when the reaction sets in. In other
words, there are limits beyond which the
machinery of the body can rot be satis
factorily v orkedg and it may very well be
that the Increased oxidation resulting
from the high frequency current treat
ment may in the long run prove harmful,
although many excellent scientists appre
hend no sucn unfavorable result.
They point out that the benefits one
derives from a visit to the seashore are
due entirely to the Increased oxidation
which takes place under the combined in
fluence of exercise and plenty of oxygen
bearing air. The vacationist comes back
to the city "feeling like a new man,” be
cause his system has been thoroughly
relieved of the mass of poisonous waste
matters which under ordinary conditions
tend to clog it.
Professor Arrhenius's experiment has
shown, it is contended, that by means of
the alternating current all the benefits
of the seashore may be obtained right in
the crowded city. Instead of spending a
few weeks at the seashore every summer,
one may derive all the benefits of tho
seashore in his own home all the yea
round by means of the alternating current.
A remarkable thing about the alternat
ing current used by Arrhenius is that the
. rtient receives absolutely no sensation
while the current is passing through him.
At Sing Sing the electric chair sends 1,800
volts through the body of the murderer
and kills him almost instantaneously.
Arrhenius sends a million volts through a
school-child and the child, entirely un
aware of it, thrives. What is the explana
tion?
High voltage doesn’t Kill. It Is the
voltage multiplied by the amperage, o
capacity of the conductor, which makes
electricity destructive. At Sing Sing the
current is sent through a conductor of
■ery large capacity, or amperage, at a
low voltage, or pressure, whereas the al
ternating current used by Arrhenius, al
though of tremendous voltage, is of in
significant amperage.
How Plants
Are
Grown
by
Electricity.
This is the feat
which sug
gested Prof.
A r r h e nius’
e x p e riment
on school