SLEEPING WITH THE HEAD NORTH.
The superstition tliat human beings should sleep with their heads to the north is believed by the French to have for its foundation a scientific fact. They affirm that each human system is in itself an electric battery, the head being one of the el ctrodes, the feet the other. Their proof was discovered from experiments which the Academy of Sciences was allowed to make on the body of a man who was guillotined. This ■was taken the instant it fell and placed upon a pivot free to move as it might. The head part, after a little vacillation, turned to the north, and the body then remained stationary. It was turned half-way around by one of the professors, and again the head end of the trunk moved slowly to the cardinal point due north, the same results being repeated until the final cessation of organic movement.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 8274, 3 January 1888, Page 6
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