Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1911 — MACHINE TO CURE DULLNESS [ARTICLE]

MACHINE TO CURE DULLNESS

Boston Savant Declares Charging of Schoolroom With Powerful Current Will Stimulate Puplla ■ Cambridge, Mass.—Dr. Andrew F. Christian, a Boston physician, believes that “If backward or sickly school children were made to study and recite their lessons In a room where the atmosphere was charged with eleoerlclty. the children would Improve, both mentally and physically, and would soon cease to be backward or sickly." Dr. Christian says: "The plain fact la that the electrification of a room creates whet Is known ss ozone, and the breathing of this has an absolutely stimulating effect. of which the reasons are well known *) medical men. "Not only In the case of school children, but also In relation to the efficiency of adults employed In offices. I think It would bo of great advantage If the air of the rooms were subjected to a high-frequency current of electricity." Continuing, Dr. Christian says: "I have noticed that a person fools better tn a room where the air has been electrified than be does tn a room with common air. however well the room may be ventilated. The reason Is that a high-frequency current In a room break* up the atoms of oxygen In tbe air and creates ozone. The ozone enriches the rod blood corpuscles and they become more numerous and more active. "The blood thus carries more oxygen to the tissues and the result Is that aa taoroase of simulation mesas an fnwsaai of Sssfaiflstlon and this In

turn means an Increase cf nutrition. For children or adults an atmosphere that Is electrified win hate a stimulating effect” It was with this knowledge that Dr. Christian set about making a machine which could electrify the air la a room thoroughly and quickly. The result of his experiments Is a cabinet which contains the three essential elements of a high-frequency electric oofl. an air pump and a vacuum tube. The high-frequency cod chargee the vacuum tube, which la inclosed in a glass air chamber. The air pump draw* air into the air ohamber and the air, after ctrouiatfng about the charged vacuum tabs, la carried out tote the room from tubes provided for the purpose. The oxygen In the air is broken up as It circulates about the charged vacuum tubes end the air passed out again Into the room is full of ozone.