ELECTRIC CHILDREN.
NEW METHOD OF MAKING BRAINS. The Swedish doctor Svante Arrhenius has concluded some interesting experiments in Stockholm, to test the effect of electricity in the growth of human organisms. According to the Matin, two groups of fifty children, roughly corresponding in age, health, weight, height, and intelligence, were chosen from among the pupils of the Swedish communal schools. One of these groups of fifty children was set to work in a room which was filled with an electric installation which passed high currents into the atmosphere from wires in the Avails, floor and ceiling.. The other group AA’as set to-work in an ordinary classroom. Neither group of children or the teachers were aware that the experiment Avas being made.
/At the end of six months the children Avho had lh r ed in the electrified atmosphere Avere found to hayg-groAvn on an average three-quarters of an inch more than the other group in height. Their intelligence had also increased in the most marked manner and they completely outclassed the non-electrified children in a competitive examination.
The electrified teachers declared that ther OAvn powers of resistance to fatgue had been increased by the treatment. ■-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3539, 1 June 1912, Page 4
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195ELECTRIC CHILDREN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3539, 1 June 1912, Page 4
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