ELECTRIC MAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1924, Page 3

ELECTRIC MAN.

MOSQUITOES WILT. NOT BITE HIM. 3800-VOLT SHOCK. Rabaul, Sept. 11. A man named Byfne, whom mosquitoes will not bite, will to-morrow receive a malarial injection from Dr. Cilento at Rabaul. Eleven years ago. (vhen riding in a tram in George Street, Sydney, the overhead wire broke, and Byrne received a 3800* volt shock, being hurled into Paling’s doorway from the tram. He spent eleven weeks in the Sydney Hospital, but the electricity could not be dispelled from this human storage battery. A similar case was that of a man named Hagan, at Southport (Eng), with whom Byrne corresponds. If Byrne’s treatment is successful, Hagan proposes to come to Rabaul. The late Sir Herbert Maitland, the distinguished surgeon. five months before he died, told Byrne that malaria was the only hope. The theory is that it will sweet the bone in which the electricity is. lodged. The charge turned Byrne blue from head to foot. He is now of normal colour, and since coming to the tropics suffers no pain