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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XIX 



ELECTRICITY AND DIET 



SCIENTISTS have been looking for 

 some method of replacing the multiple 

 ailments which are needed to keep up the 

 human body, by food in a concentrated 

 state, so that it could be absorbed with less 

 fatigue. On the other hand, a French sci- 

 entist. Prof. Bergonie, claims that electri- 

 city will solve the problem. We have 

 aheady mentioned some results which he 

 obtained in this direction, according to the 

 account presented by him to the Science 

 Advancement Congress. Since then he has 

 continued his researches and arrived at re- 

 sults which have almost a sensational char- 

 acter. Before this he simply proposed the 

 idea that electricity could be made to re- 

 place food ; that is, by adding to the heat 

 energy absorbed by the body, so that less 

 food need be taken into the system. At 

 present he is making actual experiments 

 which appear to prove this conclusively ac- 

 cording to his communication made to the 

 Academy of Sciences. The experiments 

 were made during the last few months at 

 his laboratory at the Bordeaux University 

 and fully confirmed his theories on the sub- 

 ject. His method, known as "diathermy," 

 or application of low tension and high fre- 

 quency currents to the human body, is able 

 to make up for a part of the alimentation of 

 the system by furnishing a large amount of 

 heat to the body, instead of producing the 

 heat from food materials which need to be 

 consumed or indeed burned in the system, 

 this giving rise to overwork of the physio- 

 logical organs of the body. Such electric 

 currents, as Prof. Bergonie says, will pass 

 through the body without causing the least 

 feeling; and with a current of 2 to 3 am- 

 peres strength and a voltage of 1,000 to 

 2,500 volts per hour about 1,000 calories of 

 heat can be furnished per hour, this being 

 over one third of the daily food ration. The 

 following test will bring out the remarkable 

 results which can be obtained by this 

 method. He applied the electric treatment 

 to a man 5 feet 10 inches high, whose 

 weight before the treatment was only 110 

 pounds. The patient ate a great deal of 

 animal food, but was in very bad condition, 

 as he could not walk over 300 feet without 

 needing aid. He was unable to work and 

 was very sensitive to cold. After a series 

 of treatments of 40 minutes' duration by 

 the electric method, this .corresponding to 

 an absorption of heat equal to about 1,700 

 calories each time, the patient began to im- 

 prove rapidly, and at the end of the treat- 

 ment he gained considerably in weight. In 

 fact, he then weighed as much as 140 

 pounds, which makes a gain of about 30 

 pounds. Dr. Bergonie states that the pa- 

 tient can now walk for hours without 

 fatigue, and his physical vigor is restored 

 to the normal. He is able to stand all de- 

 grees of heat and cold, and his general 

 appearance is very good. The author con- 

 siders that the time is not far distant when 

 all troubles rlue to insufficient nutrition will 

 disappear under a series of electrical treat- 

 ments by high frequency currents. 



BLACK OPALS 



BLACK Opals are commonly the result 

 of artificial coloring, but true black 

 opals have been mined in a small district 

 at the head of the River Darling in north- 

 ern New South Wales during the past nine 

 years. The output was at first very small, 

 but for a few years amounted to 30,000 to 

 40,000 per annum. At present, according 

 to a consular report from Adelaide, they 

 have become extremely rare, hardly any 

 having been found during the last nine 

 months. 



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