Similar Conditions Exist in Our Bodies
When a current of electricity passes through a fluid capable of decomposition the
acids gather about the positive pole and the alkalies about the negative pole. We
thus detect the exercise of separate activities on the part of the positive and
negative electrical forces,—their polarization,—when we notice that alkalies and
acids separate upon the application of electrical forces.
Similar conditions exist in our bodies.
They occur in the mucous and serous membranes; for the serous secretions react
acid, the mucous ones, alkaline.
The contrast, in anatomical structure, between the mucous and the serous
membranes is due to the fact that they line the various organs, respectively, within
and without. It also indicates an opposition in their electro-magnetic forces.
These membranes cover, not only the large organs, but also the small ones, to the
smallest muscular fibres.
In this way an electro-magnetic contrast exists in every part of the body, and it is
this opposition Of forces which keeps the vital machinery of the body in working
order.
Electro-magnetic attraction and resistance are the agencies which control
metabolism and the action of the organs, so long as bodily strength and healthy
blood are maintained. All internal and external stimuli are nothing more than
electro-magnetic processes.
Even our bodily temperature, as we commonly think of it under such conditions,
resolves itself into electro-magnetic force or its product.
Electricity, magnetism, light, and heat differ only in respect to vibration, and are in
the final analysis one and the same.
But since our bodies are not cold like the earth or, like its electric forces, vibrate
slowly, but are warm and of quick vibration, we are sufficiently assured that they
contain, not only the cold electro-magnetic forces, of slow vibration, but also those
that are warm and vibrate rapidly. And thus, when a correct relation exists between
positive and negative forces—that is to say, between the forces of electricity and
magnetism, then only have we normal temperature,
then alone are we normally
healthy.
When we come to enquire into the sources from which the body obtains these
forces, there is little to be said. They are well known, can easily be traced, but to
the keenest mind of scholarly research their source of origin is still an unturned
page.
Of things in the human economy which count, however, first in importance are
food and breath; for in every atom of food we eat and every breath of air we
breathe there are electrons which enter the body, there to be seized by the attraction
of electro-magnetic action, stored away, and applied in vital processes.
A source of vital energy, commonly known and little recognized, is the free, pure
air, or, ether charged with the electrons of space.
Out of space, positive and negative electrons constantly pass into the human body,
their effect we feel at once; when, for instance, in a cold room, we commence to
feel chilly, or on removal to a warm room, or into the sunlight, a comfortable
feeling of warmth pervades the body and restores its normal temperature.
Weather and local conditions have no small influence upon our state of health. In
dry and elevated positions or in warm weather the condition of the body is more
positive; in damp, low-lying places and in raw weather the electro-magnetic forces
have a negative tendency.
This is the explanation of those disturbances of health
which occasionally arise and which we sometimes experience in the dire form of
epidemics.
As an illustration, the difference of climatic conditions between the adjoining
States of Washington and Oregon are a case in point.
Among other disturbing influences which effect the electro-magnetic forces of the
body are overfeeding and underfeeding, too much and too little exercise,particularly
too much or too little stimulation, or false stimulation, or excitement of
a physical or mental nature. Any one of these influences may produce disorder in
the relations of the electro-magnetic forces of the body. The positive or negative
electrons may be abnormally increased or diminished or their location disturbed.
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