■.l,EO-TRQ'tiihQm-£.r',S- PRlKCIFLg' Of CREATiON. ON THE i i?Trff Cieci;! letkPfindsI©. V. W.,„TIPTON, M. a mtlHEOICILBOOKtl 36-37 Randolph SI. CHICAGO. Q P <7 7 75 f CORNELL UNIVERSITY. THE THE GIFT OF ROSWELL P. FLOWER FOR THE USE OF THE N, Y. STATE VETERINARY COLLEQE. 1897 Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/cletails/cu31924000349948 ^^ ^^^ ci^e^^-^^^^^ /^^ THE ELECTROMAGNETIC PRINCIPLE OF CREATION. A NEW THEORY I' ,,f^ ON THB Lirculation of the Dlood, ON THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PRINCIPLE. AI30, OP THE TRANCE STATE. A. W. TIPTON, M. D. '^■^•*I^S: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS : / / T^Mp V PIBBY Ai SHERWOOD PRINTING CO. ' ^^y ■•>■' 1692. '■.•■-■- ft 6?r ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS ■ IN THE YEAR 1892. ' DR. A. W. TIPTON, Author and Proprietor, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OP CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C. (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.) 'Tvft*. // 7 f- " Cuilibet HI art sua crededum est." "MULTUM IN PARVO." Rochefoucaultd : — " Men of limited under- standings, in general find fault witli everytHing which is beyond their comprehension." Age by age, for centuries past, systems and practices that were considered scientific have, dwindled away to nothingness, as time passed. To-day there are many things that are consid- ered Scientific in theories and practices, especially in the treatment of female diseases, that must meet with the same fate. INTRODUCTORY. There has beeu a revolutionary action going on in my mind to which, twenty years ago, I said "Stop!" It stopped not, but the end is now. If a demonstrator of anatomy will give a natural, rational and practical solution of the reason why nerves uniformly accompany the arteries and not so uniformly the veins in , the human system, which they have failed to do up to time of publication, I think I can prove, on a rational and natural basis, that the heart does not circulate the blood, but that the positive and negative electricities, generated from the air in the lungs and from them conveyed to the brain, thence distributed through the system to supply the natural demands of the body, circulate the blood and are the physical life and the motive 5 6 INTRODUCTORY. power of the body, acting in harmony with tlie spirit life; this may be likened unto the electri- city, positive and negative, generated by steam, by water power or other known generative power of electricity, the principles of which are attrac-, Jiion and repulsion, push and pull, motive force or power. Everything is kept in motion by it as long as the power lasts or until the machinery wears out. So with the body. As long as you take air into the lungs, the machinery of the body will be kept in motion, until the machinery is worn out or destroyed by disease or outside influences, etc. ^ Spinat^nenengitis, congestions and inflamma- tions of the human system can be explained and removed on scientific principles. Will wood and water run an engine without^ steam? Is not steam the motive power of the engine ? Can you force water through a pump without a motive power ? Will electric cars run without a motive power ? Are not horses the motive power of our street cars ? Can you run or keep in motion any kind of machinery without a motive power iN*fR6DUCTORY, 7 of some kind ? Is not the world kept in motion by a motive power ? Are not tlie lords of creation kept in motion by a motive power? etc.^ etc. And tbe man died for the want of air and the heart failed for the want of motive power. The engine failed for the want of steam and the pump failed to deliver water for want of a motive power, and every variety of machinery died for the want of a motive power, and the world may collapse from the same cause. Is not the horse-shoe magnet in equilibrium, electrically considered, and every molecule of the magnet, a perfect magnet, electrically con- . sidered ? And does not the same principle hold good in all animate and inanimate matter? Is not the electro-magnetic principle in stone the life and cohesive principle of the inanimate sub- X stance ? And wQuld not the destruction of this principle in nature destroy everything animate and inanimate, in part or whole, in proportion to , the destruction of the substance or being ? And will not the horse-shoe magnet become deranged, or the electro-magnetic equilibrium in a great 8 INTRODUCTOR-^. measure be destroyed, by dealing the magnet a heavy blow with, a sledge hammer, or otherwise? And would not a person resort to electricity to restore the magnet to its original equilibrium, as the most efficient agent ? And if not, why not ? When a person is in perfect health, are not the electrical conditions, positive and negative, in equilibrium or harmony in every organ or part of the body, like the magnet in equilibrium, electrically considered ? And would not a heavy blow upon the person's head derange the polar and electrical equilibrium of all organs and parts of the body, through the nerves ( motor and sentient), in proportion to the extent of 'the in- jury received by the blow, pr otherwise?- And would not electricity, properly and scientifically adtuinistered, restore harmony and an equili- brium in the system as in the magnet ? And why not ? Can animate matter or a person live without electricities, positive and negative, or north and south polarities? And if the motive power of electricity be great enough to raise a stone 'weighing thousands of pounds and convey INTRODUCTORY. 9 it from the earth to the top of a building 200 feet or more in height, run cars loaded with pas- sengers, and do many other strange and wonder- ful things, cannot the positive and negative elec- tricities in equilibrium, generated from the air in the lungs, circulate the blood ? And is not the physical life and motive power of the body acting in harmony with spirit life ? If not, why not ? Trance states can only be accounted for, by me, on the principle that the physical life departs or is divorced from the spirit while the trance lasts. Cause, incoordination between the electrical and spirit life, produ<:ed by the sus- pension of the physical forces. If not, why not ? ( See page 73 for an explanation of the trance state.) \ eONTBNTS. -.V Introduction, - . - . , ^ Progress of Electric Science, ' - - - 13 Circulation of the Blood, - - 63 Trance State, - - - - - 73 Analysis of the Practice of Medicine, - - 75 'Inflammation, and What it Is, - - - 77 Laura Bridgman's Brain, condition of at death, rational treatment foi: the prevention of her ailments of 60 years, - - 79 I on the 6th day of August, -1 753 J Prof. Richmond of St. Petersburg was 26 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCti. Struck , dead, while making the experiment gf drawing electricity from the clouds^ as he; bent forward to his instrument, to obsprve the degree; i ,or quantity of electricity which he had gained, he received a charge in his head which killed him instantly." Since the time of Dr. Franklin many able men have taken up the study of electricity and prose- cuted their researches with commendable zeal and much success until, with the greatly im- proved and diversified instruments that have been ' invented, this science, as related to both inani- mate and animate nature, except in its therapeutic bearings, has attained a highly interesting and honorable position in the circle of sciences. Irregular or fitful agitations of the needle were first observed in 1750 by Worgenthin, and in 1806 by Humboldt, who gave the accompanying phenomena the~ name of "Magnetic storms." There is still another variation' of the magnetic ;^ pole of the earth for which no theory has fully accounted. The pole of the magnetic needle . now points more than one thousand miles away PROGRKSS O^ ELECTRIC gClENC^. 27 from the geographical pole of the earth. The needle pointed due north in 1660, in London, where the observation was made. It then moved westward until 18 18, when it was directed to a point 24° 27' from the pole; then it began to move back again and will point due north again in 1976, making a complete cycle in 320 years. Self-recording apparatus, now used in magnetic 4)bservatories, give daily and hourly reports . of -all magnetic variations, and when sufficient time has elapsed to secure enough observations frbm different parts of the world much light will , undoubtedly be thrown on the cause of the earth's magnetism aiidits changes. The earth, atmosph,ere and clouds form an earthern jar on an extensive scale, the earth and clouds representing the coatings of the jar and the air fulfilling the part of the glass through which the electricity passes by induction or dis- charge. It is found that in fine weather the atiaosphere is almost invariably charged posi- tively ; before rain it often assumes a negative state. The rain that first falls is usually nega- 28 PROGRESS 6V ELECTRIC SCIENCE. tive, although the atmosphere before and after the fall may be positive. Fogs, snow and hail, if unattended with rain, are nearly always posi- tively fihargedr Clouds are always j)ositive. Electricity, like magnetism, has a maximutaf and minimum intensity during the day that may be traced to the influence of the sun, and another during the night dependent on the moon. There is also a yearly variation, dependentupon the relative- position of the earth and sun, at- mospheric .electricity having thirteen times as great intensity when the earth is in that part of its orbit nearest the sun, as when it has receded to that part of its orbit most remote from the sun. There are also irregular or fitful disturbances of the electric conditions of the atmosphere, ac- coiiipanying the agitation of the needle during magnetic storms. These perturbations manifest themselves, often simultaneously over land and sea, over hundreds and thousands of miles, or propagate themselves gradually, in a short space of time, in every direction over the surface of PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE. 29 the land. At these times occur brilliant displays of the Aurora Borealis, which are believed to be neither the cause nor the eflFect, but simply an accompanying phenomena of the electrical dis- turbances and due to the same cause. To the German astronomer, Schwabe, is due the honor of recording daily observations during more than thirty years, by means of which he established the periodicity of these phenomena. He finds that they increase in number and fre- quency during a little more than five years, then decrease for the same period, occupying, to com- plete a cycle, about eleven years. He also dis- covered that they coincide with the appearance of dark spots on the sun, although no one can say, from any evidence yet produced, that the storms are caused by the sun spots or that the sun spots are caused by the magnetic storms. Whether the sun is the source of electricity, or whether the magnetism of both earth and sun is derived from some common central reservoir of this force, still remains an unsolved problem. The influence of terrestrial magnetism and 30 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE. atmospheric electricity over health and disease is a subject of practical intere&t to" every physi- cian. That electricity is at all times present in the human body and that under certain circum- stances it becomes manifest through sparks emitted from the person, as well as by other means, has long been known to all who have ' given any attention to the natural sciences. ' , Cecil relates an instance of a gentleman whose 4°; sensitiveness to atmospheric electrical conditions 'fi was so great that he was advised to insulate him- ^ \' self by wearing silk underclothing^ So success- ful ^as this measure that he declared, "It made ( life another thing." Dr. Hosford, of New Hampshire, reported in 1837 the following, which is interesting as de-. /.. scribing a condition due to disturbed electrical ■ conditions of the human body: "On January 5th of that year, during a brilliant display of Aurora Borealis -(magnetic storm), a cheerful, intelligent lady, about thirty years of agCj^be- came suddenly and unconsciously charged with electricity, which she first discovered on attempt- PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE. 31 ing to pass her hand over her brother's face, when all the family were astonished to see a dis- play of sparks pass from her fingers to his face. This peculiar condition continued without dim-' inution until the last of February, when it began to decline, and disappeared permanently in May. During its continuance, beip,g, greatly annoyed by disagreeable shocks on touching any con- ducting substancej^ such as kitchen utensils,^ needles or springs of chairs, every effort was made to relieve her, but jieither the change of clothing from flannel and silk to cotton, nor any other device, gave her relief. She was not con- scious, from any internal sensations, of her peculiar power, though she could charge others, when insulated. She had never been confined to her bed by a day's illness, but had suflFered for some months, during the previous year, with neuralgia, which permanently disappeared with the return of her normal electrical condition in May." ' D. C Woodman, of Paw Paw, Mich., {Medical News)^ reports the following curious case: "A 32 PROGJIESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE. patient, aged 27 years, can generate light through the medium of his breath, assisted by manipu- lations with his hands. He will, take anybody's handkerchief and hold, it to his mouth, rub it vigorously with his hands while breathing on it, and immediately it bursts into flames and burns until consumed. He will strip, atid rinse out his mouth thoroughly, wash his hands, and sub- mit to the most rigid exauiination, to preclude the possibility of any humbug, and then by his- breath blow upon any paper or cloth, and en- velope it ijU flames. He will, when out guunitg and without matches and desirous of a fire, lie down after collecting dry leaves and by breath- ing on them start the fire, and then coolly take off his wet stockings and dry them. It-is im- possible to persuade him to "do this more than twice a day, and the effort is attended with the most extreme exha-ustion. He will sink into a chair after doing it, and, on one occasion, after he had set a newspaper on fire, as narrated,.! placed my hand on his head and discovered his scalp to be violently twitching, as if under in^ PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE. 33 tense excitement. He can do this at any time, no matter where he is, and under any circum- stances." Dr. Woodnian has repeatedly known of his sitting back from the dinner table, tiaking a swallow of water, and by blowing on his nap- kin, at once setting it on fire. He says that he . first discovered his strange power by inhaling and exhaling on a perfumed handkerchief that ' suddenly burned while in his hands. The following case was reported by Dr. C. A. Leal (Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, October, 1876): "A strong man was able to light the gas with ease after a few frictions with his finger. He was recommended to rub his wife, who was sufifering with neurasthenia. She re- covered, but he became morose and restless, and complained of a disagreeable feeling when bis wife touched him. He finally recovered but was ' not able to engage in his former business." T&ere are occasionally reports, through the newspapers, of the eflfects of magnetic storms upon invalids and nervous people — faintings, spasms, palpitations, etc., having occurred when 34 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE. the subjects were not aware that therewere any electrical disturbances. Many invalids are en- abled to foretell clia,nges in the weather by the aggravation or amelioration of their disease, and their change of symptoms will be found to cor- . respond with the change in atmospheric elec-. trioity from positive to negative or vice versa, which immediately precedes or follows storms.- The daily and nightly rise and fall of the grave \ symptoms attendant upon many acute diseases correspond very nearly with, the variations in terrestrial electricity, and are recognized as occurring wfth such regularity that- the ex- perienced practitioner can often readily predict 'the condition of the patient for hours in advance. Certain groups of diseases are influenced , by the seasons. The greater prevalence of lung diseases during the winter months and of bowel complaints during the summer months cannot be fully explained by the differences in tenJpera- ture and diet ; while of the epidemics, small pox is recognized as a winter disease and choler lovers of science have quietly pursued its in- vestigation with such a wealth of reward, in knowledge of its properties and its possibilities that it has been recently remarked by many writers that probably " the age of discovery^ so far as regards electricity, is past, and we, have actively engaged upon the age of the practical application of principles recently demon strated^'' To such an exterit has this been done as to enable a skilled electrical therapeutist to know what sort - ' of effect will be produced on acute and chronic diseases to a certainty before making an applica- tion of electricity, just as it is known what effect will be produced by a knife when applied to the flesh. Electricity is a mechanical a'gent like the knife, and its therapeutic Value can be learned . by extensive experience with the, agent on the principles taught' in ELECTRIC medication. VITAL FORCES, ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE. Upon these points I must be permitted to offer a few words. Of the animal kingdom I regard the nervous fluid or *' influence," popularly so called, as being the principal of animal vitaliza- tion. the life force and a modification of the ELECTRIC FORCE. It is, I think, pretty generally conceded at this day that , the "nervous in- fluence" is electrical or electro-magnetic. There are some alleged facts, and other certain facts, •which go far to sustain this view. It is said that if we transfix with a steel needle a large nerve of a living animal, as the great ischiatic^ q.u^ let it remain in that condition a suitable time, the needle becomes permanently magnetized. . So, too, if the point of a lancet be held between the severed jends of a newly-divided large nerve for some length of time, that point, 37 38 Vn'AL FORCES. as I Have heard it affirmed on what appeared to be good authority, becomes magnetized; although I have not attempted to verify either of these cases by experiment. However, admitting them to be true, the metal is charged with the nervous fluid. But the fact on which I, myself, chiefly rely for evidence of this identification, being almost daily conversant with it in my practice, is this : The " nervous influence " obeys the laws of electrical polarization, atixaction and repulsion. When I treat a paralyzed part, in which, to all' appearances, the action of the nerve force is sus- pended, I have but to assume that this force is electric and apply the poles of my instrument accordingly, and I bring it in from the more healthy parts along with the inorganic current from my machine. Forcing conduction through the nerves, by means of my artificial apparatus, I rouse the susceptibility of the nerves until they will normally conduct the " nervous influence" or electro-vital fluid, as I term it, and paralysis js removed. ' / VITAL FORCES. ' • 39 Again, if I treat a part in which the capilla- ries are engorged with arterial blood, I have but to assume that the affected part is overcharged with the electro-vital fluid, through the nerves an'd the arterial blood, and I so apply my elec- trodes, according to the^ well known electrical law, as to produce mutual repulsion, and the in- flammatory action and congestibn are sure to be repressed. I manifestly change the polarization of the parts. This thing is so constant and regular that I am entirely assured,, before touch- ingthe patient, what sort of effect will be pro- duced - by this or that arrangement in the application of the poles of the instrument. If I desire to increase or diminish the nervous force in any case I find myself able, on this principle, to produce the one effect or the other at wilL Hence, I say, the nervous influence obey^ the electric laws, just as does the inorganic electricity. I find this subtle agent not in the nerves only, but in muscle and blood — more especially in arte- rial blood. Indeed it seems to pervade, more or less, the entire solids and fluids of the animal 40 VITAI, FORCES. system, and wierever it exists its action is just that of electro-vital force. While, therefore, I cannot afiErm the identity of animal electricity and vitality, the theory of their identification, to my view, best accords with manifestations urider correct therapeutic treatment, and I am unaware of any established fact disproving it. Vegetable vitality^ also, I regard as another modification of the electric force. The fact has been proved, by repeated experiments, that gal- vanic or electro-magnetic currents, passed among the roots of vegetables, cause a quickening in development of plants to a degree that would be deemed incredible by almost any one who had neither seen nor learned its rationale. I have seen it stated, on authority which commands my credence, that by this process lettuce leaves may be grown, within a few hours, " from" the size of' a mouse's ear to dimensions large enough for convenient use on the dinner table." -EXTENT' OP ELECTRIC AGENCY. When w6 liave settled upon tlie position, tliat electricity of the heavens and that of the artificial machine are identical, and that their identity is essentially one with electricity, galvanism, mag- netism, the electro-vital fluid of the animal king- dom and the life force of the vegetable kingdom, it requires no extravagant imagination nor re- markable degree of enthusiastic credulity to suppose that all the forms of physical attraction and repulsion are due, under God, to the diversi- fied modifications of the all-pervading agent, EI,ECTRICITY. Indeed, for myself, I feel no hesitation in ex- pressing it as my belief that electricity, in one phase or another, and controlled only by will^ is the grand motive power of the universe. I be- lieve that, in the form of electro-vital fluid, the Creator employs it as his immediate agent to 41 42 EXTENT OF ELECTRIC AGENCY. carry on all the functions of animal life; and, tiiat, in respect to voluntary functions, He sub- ordinates it. as a servant, to the will of the creature, to effect such cerebral action and such muscular contractions as are demanded by the creature's volition. ■ I am dispgsed to think that, by the omnipotent power of His will, He con- trols and uses electricity, in its various modifi- cations, as the immediate moving force by which' He accomplishes all the changes in the physical universe. It is fast becoming a generally received opin- ion among modern savants th9,t every body in in nature is , electro-magnetic, more or less, and that all visible changes are but the result of changing poles. Chemical affinities and revul- sions are believed to be only the more delicate forms of the electrical, attraction and repulsiqn,.', the ultimate particles, of matter, no less than matter in masses, being subject to the control of electrical laws. The imponderable agents, light and- caloric, under the" ingenious tests of scientific , scrutiny , EXT^^NI* Olf EtECTiaC AGENCY. 43 are beginning to give some very decided indica- tions of being simply electric phenomena. In- deed, tie doctrine or tbeoiry tbat supposes caloric to be simply atomic motion is even now very generally accej)ted by tbe scientific world. And tbat motion in the atoms of a body which causes in, us the sensation of heat, is probably elec!ric motion And permit me to observe that though the operations of*nature seem, at first thought, to be wonderfully complex and mysterious, yet, if the views here presented be correct, the mar- vel is changed, and we are brought to a profound admiration of the simplicity of the means by. which the Almighty conducts His material oper- ations. A single agent made to perform pro- cesses so infinitely numerous, diversified -and apparently complex ! How amazing ! Majestic ! I^ike the mind of God ! WHAT IS MAN? My answer to the above is as follows : Man is a three-fold being, composed of a body material, a body electrical, and a spirit rational and in- destructible. I. The Material Body. This is composed pf various inetals, earths, carbon, phosphorus and gases. I need not go into a representation of their multiplied and curious combinations to form the many parts of the body complete ; but there are the ultimate elements, and a most superb and wonderful structure they here com- pose. Yet, notwithstanding all the manifest skillfulness of its contrivance and the power of its accomplishments and the beauty of its ex- ecution, it were a useless display if unaccompa- nied by the invisible agents which compose the other two grand constituents of man, to-wit : it 45 46 WHAT IS man: would quickly fall into decay, as we see it when /deprived of them, and would be resolved into its original elements again. But to our gross ma- terial bodies the creator has added : II. The Body Electrical. By this I mean that which comnionly has been termed "nervous V- influence," " nervous fluid," " nervo-vital fluid " and 'nervo -electric fluid." I object, however, to each and all of these designations. They are too restricted and specific. They all seem to imply, that it is an influence wh^^^^ appertains es- pecially to the nervous system ; whereas the entire system is under its pervading force. I do not doubt that its chief action is in and through the nervous system, but it also pervades, and, as I think, vitalizes the whole: body. The nervous system seems to be created as one principal - means for its replenishment and to serve as the medium of its ministrations to the body at large. I choose to term it electro-vital fluid or electro--:- vitality. My reasons for so designating it are ^ the following : (i.) It is demonstrably electrical in its nature. (2.) It appears to be identified, or •WHAT IS MAN. 47 at least immediately connected, with the vitali- zation of the body. (3.) I wish, by its name, to distinguish it from mental vitality, or the vitality of the spirit. Whether, as a peculiar manifestation of the electrical principle, it vitalizes by its own nature and action solely, or whether it be charged with another mysterious element, a life iForce, and vitalizes by ministering the latter to the material organism, I will not positively affirm. Whichever it be, the name I assign to it seems ^sufficiently appropriate. But I strongly incline to the theory thai this electro-vital prin- ciple, by virtue of its own nature, vitalize the system. In other words, I am led to think that God makes it the immediate agent of vitalization, having constituted it the vis vitae of both the •animal and vegetable kingdoms. Nor does \this idea, as I conceive, necessarily conflict at all with the doctrines of cell-life, as maintained by the best physiologists of the present day. I also sometimes style this electro- vital' element the body-electrical^ because it is certainly an entity, - 48 WHAT IS MAN. co-extensive with, and, in greater or less force, wiiolly pervading; tlie visible, material body. ; - At this point I will take tbe liberty to intro- dnce, though somewhat digressively, a few thoughts on the distinctions of vitality or life. Xhere are, as I suppose, the following kinds of life: (i.) Spirit life. (3.) Moral life. (3.) Blectric life. (i.) There is spirit life. And here are to be made several divisions. {A) Uncreated spirit life. This is the life of God. Of the nature of the Divine Essence we know nothing; yet that God is a real, living entity we do know. My own conviction is that the Divine Essence and the Divine Life are identical ; that God, a spirit, is necessarily infinite, conscious vitality^ the volun- tary originator of all existences beside Himself. But as to what is the essential nature of this vitality, this eternal spirit life, we can have no conception, only that this life is God. {B^ Created spirit life. Here we make another sub- division: (a.) The life of created mortal spirits, - which is a rational, intelligent entity, represent- WHAT IS MAN. 49 ing the spirit of man and of unembodied, created intelligences above bim, created as it pleased God " in bis own image" a living, indestructible essence ; and, as I suppose, its essence and life are tbe same, (b.) Tbe life of created mortal spirit, as the spirit of the beast, of its intrinsic essence we are also necessarily ignorant, yet of its attributes we know that it has consciousness, sensibility and will ; of its life we know as little , as of its essence, both of which, however, as I conjecture, are also one and the same, the spirit ' subsjtance being itself essential^ vital. (2.) We pass next to Morart^ife. This life is identical with holiness, the very opposite of that defilement that characterizes moral death, which is a state of sin. But let me again sub- divide, {a.) As the to moral life of God — it consists in His infinite moral purity, His veracity, justice and benevolence, or love qualities, which in their combination make 4ip His holiness, (b.) The moral life of man, as also of other rational creatures, consists in his sympathy of spirit with God in respect to those pure qualities which con- stitute the Diving holiness. 60 WHAT- IS MAN. (3.) Finally there is Electric or Physical Life, but here dgain there are varieties, (a.) There is animal life as of man and the lower animals, which I have already represented as constituting the electro-vital force, {d.) Vegetable life, which is another modification of the same essential electro-vitality. But now to return to the physical or aninial life of man, the electro- vital element. While this is in such immediate relation to the visible, on the one hand, it holds also, on the other hand, an immediate rel^on to the mental part, both of man and of the other animated beings of earth. It serves to transmit, through thenervpus sys- tem, to the mind, all sensations and impressions from the outer world. It, moreover, , receives from the mind the action of its volitions and imaginary conceptions, and conveys, through the nerves, the impressions. or impulsions thus- obtained to the various parts of the body, and there secures the fulfillment of the miiid's be- hests. It appears to be only in this way that communication is had between the mind and its WHAT IS MAN. 51 outer body. The natures of the spirit and of gross matter are so unlike that it seems im- practicable for the mind and body to come into iilimediate mutual relations or to act reciprocally without the aid of a medium, ethereal, semi- material and semi-spiritual, such as is the elec- tro-vital fluid. The Creator has accordingly provided this mysterious, invisible medium be- tween the two, and thus, in a degree, extended man^s likeness to Himself by making him a trinity in unity. III. The Mind OR Spirit. This is immeasura- bly the highest and most important constituent of man. /His body material will fall back to dust ; his body electrical may be reabsorbed in the great ocean of natural electricity that fills the earth and the heavens ; but his spirit is im- mortal. His spirit, made in the Divine image, lives and acts, thinks and feels, independently of every other existence save Him from whom it came. While in connection with its visible body, its good or ills, its woes^r bliss, has indeed much to do with its bodily state; but, when 52 WHAT IS MAN. separated from this body, its higli and more in- dependent existence is at once asserted, and tlien its good or ill are determined by its Author only in accordance with the workings and affections within itself. A spiritual and indestructible being, like its Creator, it can never cease to be while He exists. But our present concern is with the mind in its relation to that electro-vital medium between it and the body, and to the body itself. The mind's influence upon both of ^;hese parts of the entire man is truly wonderful, although percept- ible mostly on the material body. Few persons are aware how much the state of the mind affects the bodily health, although the degree is often very great. Yet this is done by the mind's action, first on the electro-vital functions, and through these, by way of the nerves, upon the bodily tissues. Changes in the mental state will frequently produce change of polarization in the physical "organs, and thus determine in- falliby the matter of health or disease. So, too, the condition of the bodily health will often- WHAT IS MAN. 53 determine irresistibly the mental state. What- ever bodily changes aflFect the polarization of the electro-vital medium, in any part of the organism, do thereby produce corresppnding change in the mind. These views of the reciprocal action between mind and body, through the medium of the electro-vital element, may serve to explain those psychological wonders exhibited in the cure of diseases by the imagination, as well as in diseases and even death induced by the imagination. I would like to unfold and illustrate this bearing on the subject, and also, in the light of it, to show the pWlosophy of one's mind acting intelligibly on another mind with, and even without, the aid of the physical organs, as is sometimes seen in the feats of mesmerism. There is another thought which I will offer in this connection. I maintain that all functional action of our bodily organism, ab initio^ is con- ducted by thinking mind, through the medium of organic electricity or the electro-vital fluid. Bvery organ as a whole and every life-cell in o4 WHAT IS MAlJ. detail, is' charged witli this active principle. I believe that every one of them is controlled and guided incessantly ill its propagatory, organizing and entire functional force by intelligent mind, acting through this wonder-working agent, the slectro-vital fluid. In respect to our voluntary^ exercises, this organic electrical force is made' Subject to our own mental activities, and exe- cutes its office upon the bodily organism mainly through the niedium of the nerves. But, a^ re- a;ards all the involuntary functions, I believe that control is exercised directly by the omnisT :ient and all-pervadihg God, directly in accord- ance with His own established laVs. Once more le]t me remark of the mind that consciousness y sensation and will belong to it alone. - The body never feels nor thinks, nor does the"- Drganic electricity within it. The popular ideay . especially with the uneducated masses, is that, if a man burn his finger, it is the finger that smarts. But this cannot be true. Pain cannot exist except where consciousness is, and there is 00 consciousness in the finger nor in any ma- WHAT IS MAN. 65 terial part. Onlythe mind is conscious of ex- istence even, and hence only the mind can be conscious of pain. If a limb be paralyzed by interrupting in any way tbe flow of tbe electro- vital fluid through its nerves and thus depriving the mind of its medium of communication with it, you may burn that limb to a crisp and the subject will feel no pain. When you, burn your finger or break your arm, you disturb the action of the electro-vitality in the injured part, de- ranging its poles. This electric agent instanta- neously communicates its disturbance along the nerves to the brain, where it repbrts to the mind and locates the disturbance. The conscious mind takes cognizance of the fact and feels distress." THE LOWER ANIMALS. It may, by some, be objected that, if we regard sensation as existing only in the mind, as affirmed above, we must concede mind to tbe lower animal tribes, since tbey are subjects of consciousness, sensation and will, as ourselves. I admit tbis necessity and unhesitatingly take the pbsition, as has already been done in classi- fication of minds, that the lower animals are, in fact, endowed with a something, higher and more spiritual than their material bodies or their animal vitality, something which bears dis- tinguishing characteristics of mind. I would not, however, be understood to imply that they possess all the characteristics of our minds, even in a rudimentary degree, for I do not believe they do. My theory does not accord to them either reason or immortality. Yet, in respect to the latter, my views are less discursive and my 57 58 THE LOWER ANiMAtS. utterances usually more reserved; But I "thinks their minds may and probably do perisb. with tbeir bodies. Nevertheless, the existence of con- ,sqiousness, sensation and will, in any orders j' does evidently, presuppose some sort of mental constitution.' And such mental structure, in. them as well as in us, must be distinct from and superior to the animal vitality, compelling ser- vice from the latter and using it as a medium for communicating with the body and with the outer world in general. THB VEGBTABIjB KINGDOM. As to the vegetable kingdom, there is here, so far as we can disco^ver, only a quality of prin- ciple, viz: the material body and a modified phase of electro-vitality. These component parts appear to sustain each other in the vege- table relations, 'quite anal<)gous to those of the .corresponding parts in the animal. But here the mental part is wanting, and consequently there is no consciousness, sensation or will, and the electro-vital action is guided, in its elaborate and beautiful operations, for the forming and development of the plant, and in all its vital functions, by the all-pervading mind of God. 59 NATURAL POLARIZATION OF MAN'S PHYSICAL ORGANISM. Tlie electro-vital fluid, in the animal economy, is subject to the same principles of polarization as the magnetic current from the artificial ma- chine or the magnetism of the bar magnet. In the material organism of man, the great nerve centers, the brain, the spinal cord, and the gang- lions, appear to act 4he part of fixed magnets, charged with the electro-vital fluid. Indeed, there is much reason to believe that this fluid is elaborated within the nerve centers, more es- pecially within the brain, from the inorganic electricity of the outer world, which is supplied through the lungs in respiration and conducted thence to these laboratories, by a remarkably interesting process. These nerve centers, viewed as magnets of electro-vitality, require to be re- garded as having each a positive nucleus in 61 62 , NATURAL POLARIZATION. every direction to the surface of the medullary . organ, radiating, as it were, from center to peri- phery. And the nerve lines and ramifications which issue from these great nerve cehters are polarized evidently iu the same way, the electro- vital fluid being disposed with its negative ends to the positive surfaces of the nerve centers and its positive ends to the "vital organs" and es- pecially to the surfaces of the organism as a whole. There are many other polarizations in the human system, subordinate to those men- tioned above. The foregoing is preparatory to the introduction of the theory of the circulation of the blood. v.. •THEORY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. , A NEW THEORY ON THE CIRCULATION OF' THE BLOOD, ON THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PRINCIPLE. The air is taken into tte lungs and with great rapidity is combined with the elements of the venous blood, thereby liberating a great quantity of electricity, which now, as free electricity, takes to the oxidized arterial blood, as its conductor; just as, in our electrical machines, when, by the combination of the acid with the zinc, electricity is liberated, it rushes to the conducting platina plate. The presence- of this free electricity in the arterial blood is believed to be indispensable to complfete its essential character as arterial blood. The lungs are the great batte^ of the system; in them, chiefly, the system gets its 63 64 CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. magnetism, obtained from the elements of the venojis blood, Especially froni metals and carbon, by action of the oxygen of the air upon them, in the function of breathing. The brain nerves are the agents or instruments of the distribution of the blood to the system in general. Allow me to ask you to bear in mind the car- dinal principle of electrical polarity, that posi-, .lives repel positives, while positives and neg- atives attract' each other. You inhale your , breath, as a vital function, by the action of the electrical principle sent out from your brain to the organs employed. That breath is full of oxygen. The venous blood, in the lungs, .is coniposed largely of oxidizable elements, as the carbonaceous and the metallic. The inhaled oxygen, coming in contact with these elements in the lungs, and having, a powerful electrical affinity for them, combines chemically with them. This combination or oxidization of the sanguine- ous fluid changes it from the dark venous to the red arterial blood,' and, by charging it somatically with the magnetism which was liberated in the CIRCULATION OF THB BLOOD. 65 process of oxidization, makes it strongly positive. But two positives repel each other. The lungs, being constantly replenished and filled with this elefctricity, set free by the action of the oxygen on the venous blood, are also positive. The lungs, therefore, and the arterial blood, repel each other; their mutual repulsion necessitates and compels their separation ; the one or the other must give place ; the lungs cannot retreat, and the blood must- Its only course to get away is through the pulmonary veins, and it rushes through them into the left auricle of the heart. But it is yet within the sphere of the mutual repulsion between it and the lungs, and, being also crowded along by the succeeding current from the lungs, it is urged onward. The auricle, under the influence of the electro- vital force, performs its proper function, con- tracting on the blood within it. The blood shoots through the passage down into the left ventricle, where it still feels the powerful repul- sion of the lungs and the propulsion of the advancing current behind, and here also the 66 Circulation of the blood. ventricle, actuated by tlie electro- vital force; per- forms its duty and contracts with much force - upon the blood. This action of the heart, sup- plemented and sustained by the forces in the rear, drives it to the extremities of the arterial , ■^system. Here the propulsion from behind is aided by the electrical attraction of the capillaries in the advance, of which Prof Draper speaks. Hence the blood is both crowded and drawn for- ward into these minute vessels. But all alo'ng its way, so far, there has been 'a friction between it and the arterial walls, causing it to part with more or less of its electricity. In the capillaries this process is completed. The chemical changes there, which, by the way, I think to be really electrical changes, take from it the balance of its oxygen and with that its relatively positive electricity, and so change it into negative venous blood. Now its electrical ; relations to the lungs are changed. Here in these systematic capillaries, it reaches the cen- tral point of its circuit. Being now electrically negative, it both attracts and is attracted by the CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. 67 positive lungs. It therefore rushes to them by the only route that is open to it ; that is, through the veins, heart and pulmonary artery. In the lungs it enters the pulmonic capillarieSj where it again comes into contact with the oxygen inhaled as an element of the air. By the above mentioned action of the oxygen, it is immediately charged with electricity and thus becomes -positive again, when the old repulsion between it and the lungs is renewed and it is again repelled to the left auricle of the hearl, driven through it into the left ventricle, whence it is thrust out into the aorta by the heart's mechanical contraction and urged on by mag- netic repulsion through the arterial system as before. Thus it continues its rounds ; on the one side being driven oflF to distribute through the system its nutritive and life-sustaining freight, which Tiad been received along the veins from the ab- sorbent vessels of the alimentary canal and in the lungs ; and, having delivered its charge, being called back, on the other side, by a resist- 68 CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. less power, to tlie lungs to be freiglited anew. Such, is the circulation of the blood ; - and such are the forces, as I humbly conceive, by which, in its circulation, the blood is impelled. At this point, the question may very properly be raised : What becomes of the electricity or magnetism that is given off from the arterial blood in its passage from the heart through the aorta and the arterial ramifications ? A very im- portant inquiry and one the answer of which should be. well understood. This question brings under consideration one of the many beautiful exhibitions of contrivance, in the structure of the human body, which proclaim with clearness and force the existence of a conscious, intelligent God, the Contriver and Creator of all.. I refer to the well known fact that the arteries are in- variably accomp9,nied, in all their flexions and ramifications, by, at least single, and much of the way double, lines of closely attendant and interwining nerves ; a fact which is not true of the veins. Circulation of The blood. t>y Now for what purpose, do you suppose, is this . special nervous attendance g^ranted to tlie arter- ies and not to the veins ? That at least a single , line of nerves should be served out to the arteries would seem to be for the purpose of exciting, by means of the electro-vital fluid, through the nerve filaments that penetrate the arterial issues, those contractions which co-operate with the con- tractions of the heart to facilitate the circulation of the blood. But for what purpose is this dupli- cate nerve line that accompanies the vessels con- taining arterial blood ? Most manifestly, as it seems to me, for the purpose of taking up, by induction through its filaments, which entwine about those blood vessels, that electricity which is discharged from the arterial blood by its friction against the walls of the arteries, and conducting it to the great sympathetic, and thence, by anastomosis^ to the spinal cord and up to the brain; there to undergo some secret elabor- ation in conjunction with the mind or spirit, con- verting it into electro-vital fluid, to be sent forth again as the vital force of the whole organism^ 70 ciRCUtATiON oif the; blood. You will remetaber that the arterial blood is highly charged with electricity, and therefore strongly positive. But when it^has passed froni the arteries to the veins, it has lost its inagnet- ism a,nd becomes negative, venous blood. This loss is, and must be, largely sustained along its^, passage, since there is considerable friction there.'. It is true that the inner surface of the arteries is highly polished, but the same is true also throughout the whole circulatory system, and yet, in the capillaries and other small blood vessels, as seen in the web of a frog's foot, there is so much friction that the red corpuscles are visibly retarded in their motion along theparzeies,' while those in the center move by them and pass along with greater ease and speed. So in a river the friction of the water with the banks necessi- tates a slower current along the edges than in the middle of the stream. Precisely this is seen in the blood vessels. No matter, therefore, how polished ' are the inner walls of the arteries, there is a friction there with the flowing blood, and that friction must dis- CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. 71 charge the electricity of the blood throughout the arterial -course. This electricity, I doubt not, is dii^posed of in the'manner that I have already stated. Thus I have endeavored to indicate to you that most admirable replenishing apparatus by which is kept up, in health, a continual and 'abundant supply of the electro-vital fluid to the system, while every exercise of mind and of body is put forth at an expenditure of this vital element, to exhaustion, prostration and death. The trance stateis a condition produced by tlie suspension of physical life — cause, inco-ordina- tion between tbe electrical life and mind, or spirit life — ^in which condition the person is supposed to be dead, yet lives, and in many instances is buried, alive, as numerous undertakers and others will testify. The state or condition simulates Catalepsy more nearly than any other known disease, and the same cause of the disease may be attributable to the same or similar causes as those of Catalepsy. This trance state or cata- leptic condition may continue for weeks, without a sign of life in the body, when, from some un- known cause the physical life reunites with the mind or spirit life, and the person becomes a liviug, moving being. From a Bible standpoint, God made man from the dust of the earth and breathedinto his nostrils the breath of life and 73 ^4 i'HE tS.|A:nc]^ st^aYe. he became a living soul or spirit. Now, wlien in the trance state, the physical life is suspended or departs from the body, the spirit life remains in the "body, which in itself is unchanged and' will remain so as long as the trance lasts. This proves the authenticity of the Bible statement, that man is endowed with a living spirit, beyond a questipn of doubt. When the spirit departs from the body it jretuf ns to God, who gave it, and the body re- turns to dust, whence it came. This may be likened unto the separation or removal; of the electricity from our street cars. First, the elec- tricity, or physical life was suspended or left the - body ; eventually the mind or spirit left the body, which ended dll until the resurrection of the dead; just as the electricity leaves- the car standing on the track until the motorneer turns his electricity on to put his car in motion. Now, if any person has a more practical, nat- ural and rational theory on the subject, I should be pleased to hear from him. ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. GIVING THE REASONS WHY ELECTRICITY SHOULD BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEDICINES, ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES TAUGHT IN MY WORK ON ELECTRICAL MEDICATION. The practice of medicine is based on the theory that medicines act, on diseased organs, through the medium of the nervous system, circulation, etc. The experiments with medicines have been made on persons who were in a normal or healthy condition, and if administered when in this condition, they will have the effect tjiey are accredited with. If the mediums are one-fourth less healthy, on the same principle, the medi- cines will have one-fourth less effect. If they 75 76 ANALYSIS Of PRACTICS. are one-half less healthy they will have one- half less eflFect. When used without the aid of electricity, they will rarely, if ever, effect a cure. Less medium, less action. No medium, no action. INFLAMMATION AND WHAT IT IS.. The term inflammatioii is derived from the Latin words " tn " and ^^Jiamma" in flamet fire, combustion, because of the burning pain attend- ing it and the appearance of the parts aflfected. This is correct as far as appearances go. But what it is, and how to get rid of it, are the con- cern of the physicia^, if he has a severe case of inflammation or congestion on his hands. In- flammation is an excess of nerve force, or elec- tricity and blood, in the parts inflamed. Elec- tricity is the fire, while .blood is the fuel ; hence, also, the philosophy of redness, pain, unnatural heat, etc. Now for the evidence of the correctness of the , theory. In severe cases of congestion or inflam- mation, you will find a coldness of the surface and extremities in every direction from the local congestion or inflammation, for the reason that 77 78 INFLAMMATION. the'' electricity and blood have receded from the surface and extremities to the parts inflamed, impairing the mediums through which medicines act. It is a law of nature that a greater force wilt repel a lesser one. Therefore electricity, scientifically administered, will, force or repel the -excessive amount of electricity from the in- flamed parts to the surface and extren|iiti^s, from which it had receded, re-establish an equilibrium in the system and maintain it ; thereby prevent- ing all possibility of death from inflammation,, if applied before mortific^on ensues. This it has not failed to do, in my hands, for the last twenty-three years, excepting in two cases. A partial record of my practice for twenty-two years will ejtplain. Price 10 cents. LAURA BRIDGMAN'S BRAIN. The brain of Laura Bridgman, the famous woman who lived her alloted years, devoid of sight, hearing, speech, smell and taste, brought sojne time ago to Clark University for examina- tion, has just told its story. The result of the investigation proves that the peculiarities were due solely to arrested development in the portion relating to the disused senses. Up to the time of the girl's illness, when she was two years old, the brain developed normally. After that it grew unevenly. It- is a well known and undis- puted fact that the use or disuse of certain por- tions of the body, or of -certain sets of muscles, results in a marked development or lack of de- velopment of these portions or muscles. The theory quite naturally was advanced that the development of the brain tissue depended, to a considerable extent at least, on the use or disuse 79 80 LAURA BRIDGMAn'S BRAIN. of senses directly connected with and relating to the cells of the brain. There was never so good an opportunity to test its truth as in the case of Laura Bridgman, a healthy woman, with an originally normal brain, but which lacked development, living to be nearly 60 years old, exercising to a very considerable extent the powers left her, and never moody or despondent. The weight was but slightly less than that of^ the entirely normal brain. Both hemispheres were developed alike. The extent of the cortex - (which receives and imparts sensations) was, if in any way unusual, somewhat less than the average brain. All of the aflFected cranial or brain nerves were small, and the regions of the cortex associated with the defective senses and motor or articulate tongue-speech- were partly or peculiarly developed. In general the entire cor- tex was thinner than in the normal brain with which it was cordpared. The nerve terminations of the nose and eyes were destroyed or highly disordered and there was great destruction of the middle ear and of the nerves connected with LAURA BRIDGMAN'S BRAIN. 81 the organs of taste. The most striking and conclusive feature, however, was the condition of the parts connected with the nerves of sight. The right eye of Miss Bridgman remained use- ful, to a slight extent, some time longer thac. the left. This resulted in developing that por- tion of the brain connected with the right eye to a greater extent than that connected with the left. This is sufficient proof in itself that the development depends upon the use of the or- gan. — Clipping from newspaper. EXPLANATION. - Analysis of the case goes to prove that during her sickness, the cortex (which receives and im- parts sensations) was engorged with electricity and blood; this, owing to the suspension of the electro-magnetic forces from remote parts to the cortex of. the brain, was the cause of inflamma- tion, which continued long enough to disarrange ' or destroy the conductors or nerves leading from the cortex to the diseased parts named, leaving a deathlike state, upon subsidence of the in- 82 LAURA BRIDGMAN'S BRAIN. flammation, in the conductors from their origi in the brain to their termini. Had electricil been scientifically administered at the time tl cortex was engorged, arid the inflammation di ■persedj there would not have been a disease condition left in her brain. This I positive] believe from, actual practice or experience i treating congestion^ and inflammations of tl brain. ( See Electrical Medication, page 2 1888, for treatment of the brain in congestio: and inflammations of the same.) LIFE AND DEATH, ELECTRICITY AND WATER. THE HUMAN SYSTEM, IN HEALTH AND DISEASE, COMPARED TO A POND OF WATER WITH AND WITHOUT A LIVING STREAM OF WATER RUNNING THROUGH THE SAME. Suspension' of nerve force in the system sus- pends the circnlation of the blood and weakens the muscular fibers and capillary system in pro- portion to the suspension of said nerve force. The whole human structure, will become de- ranged and diseased to the same extent of the suspension of nerve force in every organ and part of the body. In proportion to the amount of pure water running through the pond will the stagnant and impure water be purified. 83 84 WFE AND DEATH. Stagnation in tlie system, as in water, is " death- like. Electricity, scientifically administered, will purify and restore action in tlie system on tlie same principle tkat a stream of water running through, a pond of st;agnant watef will purify the same.. See Electrical Medication for general principles. PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE. 85 Contents : Polarization, Tlie Electric Cir- cuit, Polarization of the Circuit, The Current, Modifications of Electricity, The Vital Forces — Animal and Vegetable, Extent of Electric Agency, Theory of Man, The Lower Animals, The Vegetable Kingdom, Natural Polarization of Man's Physical Organism, Electrical Classi- fication of Diseases, Philosophy of Disease and Cure. PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE. Polar Antagonisms, Importance of Noting the Central Point, Distinctive Use of Each Pole, The Use of the Long Cord, The Inward and the Outward Current, Mechanical Effect of Each Pole, Relaxed and Atrophied Conditions, General Directions of the Current, Treating with Elec- trolytic Currents, Positive and Negative Mani- festations, Healing Diagnosis. ELECTRICAL MEDICATION teaches liowto treat numerous ^cute and chronic diseases with electricity-i It teaches how to con- trol inflammation to a certainty by using elec- tricity in .conjunction with medicines, thereby saving the lives of many that would perish or die ' without it. Over thirty-eight years' experience with medicines, twenty-three years of the time a clinical experience with 'electricity, justifies the above assertions of the author. 86 REFBREJNCE REVIEWS. J. J. Lawrence, A. M., M. D., editor oi Medical Briefest. Louis, Mo., April, 1885, says: Elec- trical Medication is worth many times tiie price asked for it. (Send for it.'') J. S. Zerbe, editor American Inventor^ March, 1884, says in conclusion of a review on Electri- cal Medication: "Dr. Tipton is to be congratu- lated for the succesful manner in which he has presented the subject." D. B. Goldsmith^ M. Z>., Ramsey, Fayette Co., 111., June, 1883: "I have read all the works of prominent electricians of Europe and the United States, but saw nothing base4 upon common sense and backed up by logical reasoning until I read your book." 87 8B REifERENCE REVIEWS. Homceopathic News, St. Louis, April, r88: " Physicians desiring to adopt the battery : their practice will find this a comprehensive ai practical work." American Medical Digest^ New York, Apri 1882 : " From reading this work we are impress^ with the author's true discipleship and his sp cific adaptation of electrical medicine to almo every malady to which man is heir." Minnesota Medical Mirror, Cambridge Cit; April, 1882 : " The very liberal and reasonab' deductions of the author are convincing at one that he is not riding a hobby,'' etc. REI^ERENCfi REVIEWS. :,,: 89 American Medical Journal^ St. Louis, Mo., April, 1882 : " The subject of Electrical Medica- tion is presented in a diflferent manner from that to be found anywhere else. In this book we have a practice of medicine characterized by variety:— electricity and all therapeutic agents employed by all branches of the professioU." E. O. Neil, M.D., Member Royal College Physicians and Surgeons, England — See review in the work. From the G. E. Medical Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, 1882, conclusion of review: " Dr. Tip- ton has presented these subjects of Electrical Therapeutics in a manner that will not fail to interest every reader ; nor has he made a humor- ous hobby out of it." 90 . REFERENCE REVIEWS. We cotild furnisli any number of endorse ments similar to tlie foregoing and following: Dr. J. A. Dougherty, United States Medica Kxaminer for Pensions, says: "Xhe work i wortli its weight in' gold; entirely unlike auj tiling of the kind that I have ever read." Upon receipt of $3.00, I will send the book t< any address by return mail, post-p^id. Afte: sixty days, if you do not consider the worl wortli ten times the pride asked for it, return th( same and get your money, less transportation. A. W. TIPTON, M. D., ToPEKA, Kansas FOR SAI.E BY BOOK DEALERS. PHIIvOSOPHER AND INFIDEL. Sir Isaac Newton, the celebrated astronomer of the seventeenth century, was greatly inter- ested in the statements of the Prophet Daniel, and declared his belief that in the fulfillment of them, human knowledge would so increase that men would possibly travel at the rate! of fifty miles an hour. Voltaire, the noted French in- fidel, got hold of this statement and scornfuyy remarked : " Now look^at the mighty mind of Newton, the grejat philosopher who discovered the law of gravitation ; when he became an old man and got into his dotage he began to study the book called the Bible, and in order to credit its fabulous nonsense he would have us believe that knowledge of mankind will yet be so in- 91 92 PHILOSOPHER AND INFIDEL. creased that we shall by-aii4-T3y be able to travel fifty miles an hoar! " Poor dotard," (Millen- nial Dawn, volume 3, pages 63-64. Publishiedin Allegheny, Penn., by the Tower Publishing Co.) There has been progression beyond Newton's expectations. In '92 steam cars run 80 miles an hour. In '93, at the exposition in Chicago, miniature electric cars will run 100 miles an hour. Later on passenger cars will run 150 miles an hour. Those desirous of .further information, see the arguments for and against in Ludwig : "Lehrbuch der Physiol.'' Todd and Boi^inans's : Physiological Anatomy.'' Longet : "Traite de Physiologic.'' Funke : " Lehrbuch der Physiol." This -fact concerning the nervous fluid has been one of much dispute among eminent physiologists, both in this country and in Europe. We do not consider that this is absolutely be- yond dispute, yet, after examining most all^he PHILOSOPHER AND INFIDEL. 93 works extant on the subject, and experimenting much, with Electricity, both on dead and living subjects, we are fully convinced of the truth of the above statement. Blectricity is the motive power, Carpenter's Human Physiology to the contrary notwithstanding. The following occurs on page 269 of the above named work, referring to the heart and circulation : " It is not possible to imagine that it has any other relation than this to their function; since the formation of each separate element of the organ, of which that of the entire organ is the aggregate, is due to its own inherent vital powers — the supply of blood being only required as furnishing the material on which these are to be exercised. (Nonsense.) The azotized articles of fbod yield up their nitrogen for the formation of blood and flesh. But the nitrogen taken into the circulation through the act of respiration is again thrown off. The only or main object of respiration is 94 PHILOSOPHER AND INFIDEL. ^ to produce animal lieat and to carry away, as it were, tlie ashes. Respiration mates room for growth., but in no way produces it ; all the material used in building up the system comes to the blood through the digestive and assimila- tive apparatuses. By the digestive force is meant electricity. pi/D THEORIES ARE PASSING AWAY. Science has at last discovered that the sun is not a dead center, with planets wheeling about it, but itself stationary. It is now ascertained that the sun also is in motion, carrying with it its splendid retinue of comets, planets, its satel- lites and theirs, around some other and vastly mightier center. Astronomers are not yet fully agreed as to what or where that center is. Some, however, belieVe that they have found the direc- tion of it to be the Pleiades, particularly Alcyone, the central one of the renowned Pleiadic stars. To the distinguished German astronomer. Prof. J. H:~Maeidler, belongs the honor of having ma,de_this discovery. Alcyone, then, as far as science has been able to perceive, wotild seem to 95 96 OLD THEORIES ARE PASSING AWAY^ be "the midnight throne" in which the whole system of gravitation has its seat, and from which the Almighty governs his universe.-r- Millennial Dawn^ valume III, page j2i.