104 THE MICROSCOPE. July, 



THE MICROSCOPE. 



New Series, 1893. 



For Naturalists^ Physicians^ and Druggists, and Designed to Popularize 



Microscopy. 



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 Microscopical Publishing Co., Waskifigton, D. C, U. S. A. 



CHARLES W. SMILEY, A. M., EDITOR. 



EDITORIAL. 



Viewing the Astral Body. — In a book by J. C. Street of 

 Boston, called " The Hidden Way Across the Threshold " is 

 given the following account. 



Believing that there was within and about the natural body 

 another body of etherial character, he concluded ''that a simple 

 microscopic device could be made that would assist the e3'e so 

 that it might penetrate the most minute particles of the air we 

 breathe, and thus witness the Soul and this etherial form take 

 flight to the boundaries of the other world." 



"Procuring the most powerful lenses I coukl find, I completed 

 an invention of my own and, when my light was so perfectly 

 arranged that I could examine the microbes in the air, I called 

 a patient who had lost an arm and asked him to put his 

 imaginary hand where I directed. The moment I aijusted the 

 glass, a new world and light of revelation broke upon me. The 

 real hand lay beneath my glass ! I asked him to make letters 

 with his imaginary finger. He did so, and, to his wonder and 

 astonishmeat, I spelled out the sentences he thus wrote. This 

 was to me conclusive evidence of an etherial second self." 



Perhaps some of our readers can tell us how to examine "the 

 microbes in the air." We have thus far been obliged to catch 

 them and confine them under a cover-glass in order to see them. 



