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Sympathetic-Vagal Stimulation by Means of Magnetic Meredian and Other Energies.

BY GEORGE STARR WHITE, M. D. *

Cellular Development.

If we, as physicians, could know more of the development and physiological processes of each organ of the body, and then of the body as a whole, we could much more intelligently treat any disease.

It is well known that the human body is an aggregate of myriads of cells, estimated in number at twenty-six million five hundred thousand millions. Each cell has its own function to perform, and each cell is a part of a cell community and works for weal or woe.

The more we study the development of cells, the more we are impressed with what is electrically termed polarity. (As we have no better nomenclature at our command, we will employ electrical terms. in speaking of vital force.) No one can witness cell division by mitosis. under a powerful lens without thinking of the appearance of iron filings in a magnetic field.

We are aware of the fact that some scientists claim that the body could not have electrical centers because the body as a whole is composed so largely of salt and water, which makes the interior of the body itself an efficient conductor of electricity. We must remember that test tube chemistry and chemistry in the living organism are not identical. Neither is the insulation or conductivity of dead material to be compared with that of a living organism. Nature has a method of insulating her energy conductors in a way that man cannot duplicate. We must take Nature as we find her and not try to interpret her to fit laboratory methods.

Electrical Analogy.

As we look at the development of any species of animal or vegetable life, we find that one cell divides into another cell, and that again into another. If there were not some controlling influence over these cells, they would all develop in the same way, and the organism would be all of a single tissue without any differentiation between the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm, or any of the structures developed therefrom.

In our modern way of thinking, the electron is the smallest particle from which the atom is formed, and in turn the molecule is formed from the atoms. Each cell seems to be an electrical entity with positive and negative poles, and that entity is the electron. As these electrons are

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arranged in a specific manner, so are their atoms arranged to have certain lines of force. As the atoms in turn form the molecules, it is probable that they, from the arrangement of poles and magnetic fields, are created in a definite internal arrangement according to the arrangement of the electrons. Inasmuch as the molecules form the cells, those cells would be electrically and magnetically arranged according to the formation and arrangement of the electrons.

As cells divide and develop one by one, they appear to be limited in their development by electrical or magnetic conditions existing in their internal formation. This could be on the order of a multitude of galvanic cells connected either in series or in multiple, so arranged that when the amperage was of a certain degree the voltage would be modified, or conversely. Considering each cell as a great multitude of electric cells, this theory seems plausible.

By this arrangement, when a certain amount of electric force was exerted or a certain quantity generated, the electrons would be affected in such a way that they would form different kinds of structure or different forms of the same structure. In this way we could formulate a reason for the definite manner in which cells develop. Sometimes we have monstrosities or malformations. These might be caused by some electrical change having taken place at the time of development, thus bringing about forms in one species that are found in another.

If we reason from the supposition that all matter started from a single form of atom or electron, the theory of evolution can be built up entirely on the electronic hypothesis. If, as most physicists think, the electron is always associated with an unvarying unit-charge of negative electricity revolving within a sphere of positive electricity, then all atomic characteristics can be satisfactorily explained.

As the universe is made up of electrical systems, and, as many believe, our very atmosphere and form of life is governed by electrical changes in this universe, it is reasonable to believe that the animal body is made up of electrical systems.

The molecules would simply be an aggregation of electric batteries. The tissues in turn would follow in the same order as the molecules, since each tissue is an aggregate of similar molecules. The organs

would follow in the same order as the tissues, inasmuch as they are aggregates of the tissues and determine the character of the work. The collective organs, having co-related functions, form the body as a whole.

Magnetic Equilibrium and Health.

It would hardly be compatible that one entire body were composed of one electric system; rather it would seem as though the body an animal were made up of separate electric systems or magnetic fields.

If this hypothesis be correct, the body, to be in health, must be in

electric or magnetic equilibrium. As soon as any one system in the body is in any way deranged so as to cause a change of polarity, that would mean disease in that particular system. In the same degree as that subsystem was deranged, so would the whole system be out of balance. If the polarity of any tissue were changed, disease or unrest of tissue must take place.

During the evolution of matter from vegetable to animal and from animal to human, electrical centers have, apparently, been developed to control automatically the several subsystems or electric segments.

At first, we have the nucleus of the cell to govern the cell itself, then a system of cells is governed through the nerves or connecting wires by ganglia, or small nerve centers. As evolution progressed, larger nerve centers governed the sub-nerve centers, until eventually we have what is called the brain to govern the ganglia, or substations, throughout the organism.

If we accept this theory of "electronic unity" it will be much easier for us to conceive the idea that the chromosomes in the cell are an aggregation of electrons representing every other cell in the organism. In no other way can we explain heredity or the laws of eugenics-each species having its own characteristic chromosomes of its specific number.

There are different polarities in different parts of the body. Some parts of the body are affected more by the negative pole while others. are affected more by the positive. If a positively charged part of the body become negatively charged, that part is diseased. If it become neutral, we also have a state of physical unrest.

If there be any way by which we can prove that the body is made. up of aggregations of electrical systems or spheres of radio-activity, we shall draw nearer to the etiology of disease as well as its relief.

It has been proved that certain rays of light cause the body to give off more or less electrical force. It has likewise been proved that other rays of light cause sedation. From these proven phenomena, it seems as though the body were composed of radio-active segments and controlled by them. Since different parts of the body give different forms of polar energy, it follows that their spheres of radio-activity vary.

The Sympathetic-V'agal Reflex.

It is generally conceded among scientists that every phenomenon in nature is a matter of vibration. Light, color, sound, electricity, and radio-active energy are forms of vibration, and the rate and mode of vibration differentiate them from each other.

The effect of light is seen in all forms of vegetable and animal life. Colors also produce a far-reaching effect upon the development of all forms of life.

The profound effect of color has been demonstrated by a noted French bacteriologist. He has recently shown that the anthrax bacillus,

when exposed to the ultra-violet rays, is changed into a different species, and when this revised or new bacillus is injected into an animal, an entirely new disease is developed. It has also been found that intense rays from the ultra-violet region of the spectrum, when radiated from a quartz, mercury-vapor lamp, will coagulate egg albumen and solutions. of serum proteins.

The effect of sound seems to be well shown through the sympathetic system, as has been proved by the mental and psychic condition in animals produced by means of different kinds of sound.

The effects of other forms of energy have not been so well known, but they have recently been shown in the change of vegetable and animal development, when under certain forms of high frequencies.

We know that the ear responds to sound waves and the eye to light and color waves. It can be shown that other organs in the body respond to waves produced by light, color, sound, and other forms of vibration; and from this we may infer that every organ in the body responds to every form of energy.

In the body we have a nervous organism which might be likened to a telephone system, of which the brain is the central office and the ganglia the substations. This nervous system is the most accurate index of external energy. The internal organs are controlled by the sympathetic and vagus nerves. Any stimulation of these nerves produces what is termed "vagal tone," and with a change in vagal tone there is at change in the tension of the viscera. That the tension of the viscera changes under external energy, we can prove by means of various mechanical devices.

It can be proved that the magnetic meridian; energy from a magnet; human energy; and light, color, and sound waves, will all produce a change in the tonicity or tension of the viscera. This is done by translating the tonicity or tension into audible tones by means of the organotonometer, which is a measure for the tones of the organs. This sympathetic-vagal reflex can also be proved by many other methods— notably "air-column" percussion, the cardiograph, the kymograph, the plethysmograph, the psychophanometer, the stethoscope, etc. The technic for demonstrating the sympathetic-vagal reflex has been thoroughly worked out and illustrated.

Energy from a Magnet.

If a grounded person stand facing east or west and the energy from a magnet be directed toward the epigastrium or other regions of the trunk, the sympathetic-vagal reflex is produced.

About fifty years ago a surgeon, while trying to locate a piece of iron in his patient's stomach by means of a magnet, observed that the magnetic flux changed the resonance of the stomach.

Individuals working with powerful giant magnets have noticed. that their "face flushed" when they first came within a powerful mag

netic field.

Energy from the Living Body.

It has been proved and demonstrated that human energy, described by some as human aura, human atmosphere, or life emanations, will produce this sympathetic-vagal reflex in persons grounded and facing at right angles to the magnetic meridian, that is, east or west.

Energy from Light Waves.

If a person is in a dark room and a bright light is suddenly shed upon the body, there will be a change in the sympathetic-vagal tone. Blind persons have often noticed this and described it as "stimulating.”

Energy from Colors.

We have proved that if a healthy person is well grounded and faces either north or south, that is in the magnetic meridian, the symfathetic-vagal tone is increased.

If a ruby light is shed upon a healthy person facing in the magnetic meridian, there will be no change in the sympathetic-vagal tone; but the moment the colored light is extinguished the sympathetic-vagal tone will rise. This phenomenon will not take place in a person suffering from tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, or any other toxemia.

Energy from Sound Waves.

If a regular sound vibration is made near the body, there will be a change in the sympathetic-vagal tone. This phenomenon of “sound tone" was described many years ago by a scientist working with tuning forks and resonators.

Stretching and Yawning.

All animals, especially warm-blooded animals, stretch. By "stretching" we refer to the extending of muscles as in yawning. Some tell us that this is an involuntary act to rid the muscles of carbon dioxid gas, but the next time you feel like stretching, try to flex the neck instead of extending it, and see if your "stretch" stimulates you as when you extend the neck. This appears to be a sympathetic-vagal reflex produced by stimulation of the second sympathetic cervical ganglia.

Ocular Reflex.

The ocular reflex is produced if the 7th cervical vertebra be stimulated by concussion, magnetism, or other localized energy. This reflex is best elicited by the combination of concussion and magnetism, or focused light, at the 7th cervical vertebra. It is also elicited by means of the magnetic meridian, if the person is grounded and turns from facing east or west to north or south.

Many other forms of energy will produce the ocular reflex.