the human body consists of numerous magnets, etc. 
779 
why? Because the electrical circle is broken and the skin of the 
fruit acting - as an insulator prevents the current passing from 
the tongue to the roof on its way to the brain, and back again 
to the tongue (a complete circuit). 
This explains the reasons why food must be changed into 
liquids before we can get its full taste, as liquids are better con¬ 
ductors than solids are. To prove to yourself that sensation of 
taste may be caused by electricity, place a silver coin under the 
tongue and a copper coin above it, and then allow the edges to 
meet, so that the circuit may be complete, and sensation will 
occur immediately. On the tongue we find three general sizes 
of pappillae, the large circumvallate, few in number, the medium¬ 
sized fungiform and the smaller or conical and filliform. From 
what we know of chemical affinity we may conclude that the 
redder portion of the tongue, such as the fungiform pappillae, 
will attract to themselves the blue elements of food, such as 
acids and other cooling properties ; on the other hand, some of 
the smaller pappillae will be observed to have a pale or bluish 
cast and these would naturally attract thermal elements, such as 
carbons, alkalies and sweets, peppers, etc. When the taste is 
not perverted from a love of artificial stimuli and over rich diet, 
the chemical forces of the system will generally call for such 
foods as are most needed and the demands of nature should be 
heeded. Food that is wholly unpalatable will not call forth 
sufficient saliva and digestive processes properly, and so nutri¬ 
tion is not carried on as completely when otherwise. Hence 
you find subjects that are opposed to certain foods for no appar¬ 
ent cause or reason to themselves, simply a chemical law. 
The sense of feeling or touch is explained under the head of 
sensation. 
Summing up all I said I wish to state further that all the 
senses, in short all the functions of the animal organism are 
carried on as well as the process of life through the activity of 
unimpeded flow of vital ethers, both electrical and thermal, and 
therefore we have to learn something not universally taught in 
medicine, how to keep the system charged with said require- 
