According to Keely’s theories it is that form of energy known as magnetism—not electricity—which is to be the curative agent of the future, thus reviving a mode of treatment handed down from the time of the earliest records, and made known to the Royal Society of London more than fifty years since by Professor Keil, of Jena, who demonstrated the susceptibility of the nervous system to the influence of the natural magnet, and its efficacy in the cure of certain infirmities.
As Cheston Morris, M.D., has well said in his paper on “Vital Molecular Vibrations,” “We are entering upon a new field in biology, pathology, and of course, therapeutics, whose limits are at present far beyond our ken.”
“The adaptability of drugs,” says Dr. Henry Wood, “to heal disease is becoming a matter of doubt, even among many who have not yet studied deeper causation. Materia Medica lacks the exact elements of a science. The just preponderance, for good or ill, of any drug upon the human system is an unsolved problem, and will so remain …. After centuries of professional research, in order to perfect “the art of healing,” diseases have steadily grown more subtle and more numerous …. Only when internal, divine forces come to be relied upon, rather than outside reinforcement, will deterioration cease. Said Plato, ‘You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul.’ ”
[1] Keely was obliged to return to his former method soon after, for in overcoming one difficulty he found a more obstinate one to contend with. [↑]
[2] A system of Pendulums tuned to swing the various ratios of the musical scale, form a “Silent Harp” of extraordinary interest. This “Silent Harp,” D. C. Ramsay, of Glasgow, has shown to his students of harmony for many a year. A pen, placed by means of a universal-jointed arrangement between any two pendulums of this “Silent Harp,” so as to be moved by a blend of their various motions, writes, with all the precision of gravitation, a portrait of the chord which two corresponding strings of a sounding harp would utter to the ear. This spiral writing is a Pendulograph; exquisite forms such as no human hand could trace. [↑]