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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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ac-tion of high frequency electric currentson metabolism. He said that the effi-ciency of food was much increased bythese currents, as 70 per cent of the foodwhich passed through the body undi-gested could be taken up by the tissueswhen the currents were applied. Thecurrents also destroyed certain microbes,particularly those of malaria. This same scientist has advanced thetheory that applications of electricitycould be made to supply the place of foodto a certain extent. By the applicationof electricity it was his claim that thehuman body is able to make up for apart of the alimentation of the system byfurnishing a large amount of heat to thebody, instead of producing the heat fromfood materials which need to be con-sumed or indeed burned in the system.The doctor considers that the time is notfar distant when all troubles due to in-sufficient nutrition will disappear undera series of electrical treatments by highfrequency currents. Impressionism in the kitchen simplymeans indigestion.
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^.-: ^M unidrAection My Native Servant First Meets with Electricity By W. ROBERT FORAN On the completion of my journey downthe Nile I landed in Cairo, bringing withme my fathful native servant, Sefu binMohamed, who had been my valet forsix years. On arrival at ShepheardsHotel I instructed him to take my bag-gage up to my room and unpack itwhile I sent off a couple of cablegrams.I showed him the electric elevator andtold him to go up to my rooms on thefourth floor in it. He entered the ele-vator without any suspicion and Ithought no more of it. In half an hour or less I went up tomy apartment and found him standing inthe middle of the room with my baggagestill unpacked. What in the name of thunder is themeaning of this, Sefu? I asked himangrily. I thought I told you to un-pack my baggage and prepare my bath. Yes, master, you did. Then why the dickens didnt you doas I told you to do ? Please, Master, Im frightened! I looked at him in surprise, for Icould think of nothing which could hav

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