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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17856, 31 August 1923, Page 6

Declaring that it is possible to transmit the vital energy of a healthy person to an invalid, just as it is possible to transfuse blood from one person to another, Dr. Henri DurvUla described a successful experiment to the members of the Congress of Experimental Psychology, in Paris. He had told how his nepheWj aged seven, who was we*Os from birth, -was sp ill with acute pneumonia in 1922 that two doctors declared he could not recover. Dr. Durville then put his theory . into practice. Covering the affected parts with a towel, he placed his mouth firmly on it and, filling his lungß, breathed energetically, as if trying to make his breath penetrate the tissues of the invalid. This action-, which is similar to blowing into one's hand to warm them, was continued for ihree days, and on the fourth day, without any other treatment, the boy was out of danger. The same treatment sncceded, Dr. Durville said, with his wife at a time "when he despaired of her , Ufa.