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fat. Hence anaesthetics produce the effect of posi- 

 tively electrified ions, preventing the nerve parti- 

 cles from coalescing and thus quiets the nerves. 

 The action of whiskey in arresting the progress of 

 snake poison is explained. The alcohol counteracts 

 the coagulating tendency and keeps the nerves in 

 a colloidal condition. It explains many other famil- 

 iar facts, as why heat tends to quiet the nerves, 

 and that chemical stimulation is identical with 

 electrical stimulation, and solves the long standing 

 puzzle of muscular contractility. 



Dr. H. Preston Pratt, an eminent electro-thera- 

 peutic expert, says: "Dr. Loeb's experiments have 

 demonstrated that electricity is life that the en- 

 tire human organism is controlled by electrical 

 forces. The twentieth century will prove electric- 

 ity and not salt is the real life-giving principle. 



"If this force is taken away, life ends, and, in the 

 same manner, if this force is supplied the result is 

 the immediate stimulation of the organic life. 



"The necessary elements of life are taken into 

 the body through the air and food, and the entrance 

 of the essential elements into the blood sets the 

 human battery into operation, and it continues to 

 operate as long as the electrical forces are sup- 

 plied to the blood. The human body is of elements 

 the same as a magnet and is built of smaller mag- 

 nets or molecules" This I have contended for 

 many years. He continued: "To show the con- 

 nection between human life and electricity, take an 

 ordinary battery of chloride of ammonia or salam- 

 moniac and study its workings. You will see that 

 by the introduction of the element zinc the electrical 

 current is found. The zinc is of positive polarity 

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