LIFE'S SECRETS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4327, 17 August 1937, Page 2

LIFE'S SECRETS

ELECTRICAL ENERGY A prominent South African doctor and a famous engineer are working in a London laboratory, trying to discover the secrets of life and death through electrical energy. Medical etiquette forbids mention of their names. They have been working for five years, and consider that it will take another five to obtain the desired results. But already they have answers to some of their problems. The doctor and the engineer both thought that the secret of life lay in some kind of energy, probably electrical. After careful discussions they laid their plans and tried to prove it. Intricate apparatus was designed and built by the engineer and the experiments started. Animals were used at first. The machine consists of metal plates which are fixed on the wrist and over the heart, connecting through a circuit to a batteTy and recording instrument. Their apparatus proved that every animal was born with a definite electric charge. They were able to record and tabulate this energy. Readings were taken of various animals at different stages in their Jives. They found that the more intelligent animals had a higher charge than the lower forms. At the moment of death the charge disappeared. In the animal experiments the record showed that the charge remained more or less the same throughout life, except when the animal was breeding. Research moved on. They were abh to examine human beings. Here, a' first, they discovered that the law: they had' already found in the lowei mammalian forms, still held goodbabies were born with a definite charge. After death the charge vanished. Ai average human charge, they found was SUO volts. As the months went on, however, : new and overpowering development be came apparent. As the subject grev older the charge increased, not witl age, but according to the type of char acter the subject was developing. The two men began to think the; were on the track not only of life bn of the soul, so long sneered at by scien tists. Experiments were made of mini bers of adults of all types and ages. They proved what they were begin ning to believe—that the higher am better the type of the subject th higher was the charge. In coarse, animal natures the charg remains low. And in cases of menta disease and lunacy the charge dropped They found that male babies had higher charge at birth than femal babies, but that the female could catc up and pass the male according to th various characteristics shown. Intensive research into the history c patients was carried out. Each subject has been followed n and regular readings taken of th charges. But one great fact continue to baffle the experimenters. Where db the charge go to at death? As it was energy it could not dip appear. It had to go on existing i; ‘ some form. Now they are trying to find on where it does go. The engineer i planning a new recording machine. Tliis will not take the reading defin itely from the body of the subject, bu from the atmosphere round it. It i based on a theory that there is a; aura 'around every human being. With this new machine they hope t be able to take the reading of the at raosphere in a room or in a buildup such as a hospital. They hope that when a death occur the needle of the recording machin will not drop, but will remain steady proving that the charge is still there in the ether filling the room. The theory they hold now is tha when a patient dies the energy leave, the body, but hovers, for a time, in th atmosphere surrounding the body. They hope, in this way, to be abl to track the energy down, to discove I exactly what has become of it. i