The Exeter Advocate, 1915-8-5, Page 7WEAK, TIRED, DEPRESSED
That is the. Usual Condition of Per.
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PLANTS RAVE
NERVOUS SYSTEM
I
RESPOND' TO EXTERNAL FORCES 1
LIKE HUMAN: BINGS."
Intoxiated by Alcohol, Stupified by 1
Chloroform, Degeneration Through
Laziness.
A series of investigations made by
Professor Jagadis Chunderf Bose,. an
Indian scientist, of Calcutta, has re -
suited in revelations of such far-
reaching scientific importance that it
may be doubted whether even this
distinction now holds good, The bar-
rier between the life -phenomena of
plants and animals is thrown down,
Even the commonest vegetable proves
to be sensitive. Professor Bees has
shown that plants have what may
truthfully be called a nervous sys-
tem—of a simple type, to ,be sure,
but still a nervous system. The dis-
eavery is of momentous interest.
Psychology deals with consciousness;]
but without nerves, ' without some
means of receiving impressions of
storms and sunrliine, heat and cold,
there can be no consciousness. Pro-
fessor
ro-fessor Bose by no means holds that
plants. have anything like the intel-
ligence of animals, but he has cer-
tainly demonstrated that they re-
spopct to external forces, not as so:
many living machines, but as sen-
tient organisms.. By his extraordin-
ary methods of enquiry he proves.
that they are affected in a very hu-
man way when stimulated from with-
out. They are benumbed by cold in-
toxicated by :alcohol, suffocated by
v
foul air, wearied, by excessive work,
stupified by anaesthetics, excited by
electric currents, stung by physical
blows, exhilarated in sunshine, de-
pressed in the rain, and killed by pois-
ons or violence. In a word, they are
responsive or irresponsive under the
same conditions and in the same man-
ner as a human being, sometimes to a,
greater and sometimes to a lesser de-
gree.
was it necessary to tap the glass tube
containing the iron particles'
To answer that question Dr. Bose
began a painstaking investigation. He
found that the iron particles of the
coherer grew weary; they were ac-
tually fatigued because of overstrain;
they had to be revived, and a tap
(a " stimulus, in ' other words) revived
them, That discovery prompted him
to study over substances. Matter
proved to strangely capricious., He
examined it as a biologist examines a
muscle or nerve—electrically. A
piece of animal tissue that is dead
reacts differently from a piece that is
alive.' There is an electric twitch,
when the living muscae or nerve is
excited, a twitch that can be seen
with the aid of a galvanometer --.a
delicate detector of electric currents.
A dead tissue, on the other hand, gives
no response. Tested thus, Dr. Bose
found matter curiously alive in a real
and not in a figurative sense. He
froze metals, and they became torpid
like an icy muscle; he poisoned them
and then cured them; he narcotized
themandnd afterwordrevlved
them; ;he
pinched . them, and they responded
electrically like living flesh; be sub- �
jected them to ceaseless blows, and
they grew tired and irresponsive; he'.
allowed them to rest, and the ability
to respond revived, He performed
hundreds of experiments which prove
ed inorganic matter is not dead.
First of all, Dr. Bose set about the
'invention of new instruments—de-
vices of unprecedented sensitiveness.
If plants are to lay bare their se-
crets, they must be given the means
of expressing themselves, In a broad
sense, that is what Dr. Bose has done.
His ingenious recorders are pens of
incredible lightness with which lilies
or cabbages may write down their im-
pressions of the outer world in a
script that we can understand, Use
these instruments intelligently, and
vegetation, hitherto mute, will whis-
per its story,
Plants Sensitive.
No Dead Matter.
Although he is "a native of India,
there is not a trace of Oriental rays-.
sticim in Dr. Bose, nor of that curious
mixture of occultism and metaphysics
which we associate with the East.
It was soon after his graduation
from Cambridge that Dr. Bose began'
the researches which have resulted
in giving an entirely new aspect to
various phenomena associated with
life. At first he was concerned, riot
with living things, but with inorganic
matter—gross; dead, brute matter, as
it used td be called. That was in
the days when wireless telegraphy
was still a dream, when Marconi was
just beginning to experiment.
If wireless telegraphy was to be-
come a commercial reality, something
better than this coherer was needed
—something that was self -recovering,
like a human eye. To discover that
something involved a sturdy of the
whole theory of coherer action. Why
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Enabled to express itself, a plant is
found responsive to all the svtimuli
that cause an animal muscle to con-
tract. A blow will make a muscle
twitch; a plant will also twitch when
struck. A prick or a cut Will cause
both vegetal and animal tissue to give
either a mechanical or an electrical
twitch, Pinch a. cauliflower stalk
with tweezers, and a reflecting gal-
vanometer --a detector of currents
which, in this instance, may be con-
sidered anelectrical substitute for a
brain—can be made to move a beam
of light many feet on a screen and
thus to visualize the stalk's wincing
and recovery.
In order to show that there is a
perfect analogy between beating ani-
mal and beating plant tissues, Dr.
Bose subjects his plants to all the
test that biologists apply to animals,
and, few more that he himself con-
ceives. A heart is slowed down by
either, the biologists say ? "I, too,
must experiment with either," de-
cides the doctor. He places his plant
in a chamber, and blows in some ether
vapor mixed with air. The plant re-
cords its exaltation. It has been af-
fected just as if it were human.
Stronger ether vapor is admitted. The
leaflets slow down just as does a
heart under the influence of an an-
esthetic. Will the leaflets stop alto-
gether if too much ether vapor is
poured into its chamber ? The heart
will, we know. The doctor tests the
plant. For a minute or two the leaf-
lets waver uncertainly; then they stop
—the plant is quite still. Fresh
air is blown into the chamber, and
the effect is magical. Very slowly
the leaflet begins to move, and once
more the record is traced on the glass
plate, weakly and uncertain at first,
but gathering strength as the plant
drinks in each new whiff of armos-
pheric oxygen..
Chloroform has an gven more pro-
nounced effect than either. If a slight
excess is administered, the leaflets
stop altogether. The leaflet may
even be killed. • Sometimes it takes
as long as half an hour to revive a
telegraph -plant that has been thor-
oughly chloroformed.
Think for a moment of the signifi-
cance of these experiments. We have
been taught to believe that automat-
ically pulsating tissues draw their
energy from within, and to' call this
energy "vital force." 'If a beating
leaf can be arrested and started again
simply by controlling external forces,
it is evidently absurd to ' explain its
apparent automotic action by means
of an internal vital force. Dr. Bose
offers a new and more plausible the-
ory, one that accounts for all spon-
taneous movements by the action of
external forces only. , A plant is the
plaything of light, electricity, wind,
and rain—of all nature's. forces. Like
the currents; drugs, 'and gases em-
ployed in' Dr. Bose's experiments,
these natural forces act as stimuli.
We must -imagine the little' mole
cules`'of which :plants are constructed,,
not only -storing up' all this':energv:as
if it were water received by' a vessel,
but as receiving much more than
they can store. Like water, the ex-
cess energy bubbles over, as it were,
and produces the 'pulsations that have
seemed so inexplicable.
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WITH IRON HAND
GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS IS A
STRICT DISCIPLINARIAN.
the front. On. one of these visits in
Warsaw he is said to have gone to a
restaurant where vodka and wine
were secretly sold. Here he found in
a private room carousing several of-
ficers who should have been at the
front. He ordered their arrest,' and
that night 'presided over a court-
martial which condemned, athem to
die ,on the morrow, With hie own
hands he tore their shoulder straps
from their uniforms.
"You have disgraced your uni-
forms; prepare to die," he said.
On the following morning he sent
for them,
"I have suspended your sentence,"
he said. "Go to your positions at the
front and each of you return with.
the cross of St,. George, or do not re-
turn at all."
Punishes by Death.
When the 10th army carps was cut
up on the Grodno front in East Pruse.
sia the grand duke sent for the gen-
eral in command, and is said to have
acrossi
struckhim his face and torn
off his shoulder straps.
At the time the Germans started ",electric light. They are called "hs -
their now famous drive from Cracow, tening galleries," because, in times of
Gen. Radio Dimitrieff, the celebrated siege, they are guarded by relays of
Bulgarian soldier, was in command of expert listeners, who keep their ears
the Russian forces opposing this ad- pricked up for the pick and shovel of
vanee. It is said that to supply
the troops in the Carpathians am-
munition had been taken from the
army of Dimitrieff, so that his troops
had only forty rounds of small arm
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actually work out the war plans of
the Russian army he does influence
the general ideas that control Rus-
sian strategy. It is even said that the
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tendencies of Gen. Dussky led finally
to a breach between him and the grand
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Rough Military Discipline for Men
of High Rank Pleases
the Soldiers.
The Grand Duke Nicholas is the
most powerful and beloved figure in
Russia to -day.
Strong of will, determined of pur-
pose, the grand duke has not the re-
putation of being a man of enormous
intellectual ability; nor does he pre-
tend to make the plans that govern
the movements of Russian armies.
He is surrounded by men of military
training and ability whose superior-
ity in their own lines he is the first
to recognize.
One of his most important duties
is to sit at general headquarters and
keep order among his various gen-
erals, whose views are often discord-
ant, to see that plans determined
upon by the general staff are carried
out, even by those who oppose them.
His high position in the imperial
family enables him to treat even gen-
erals .with rough military discipline
which alone can maintain order
among the temperamental Slays. The
stern manner with which" the grand
duke treats officers of high standing,
who have failed in their duty has en-
deared him to the rank and file of
the army, for the Russian soldier in
this war has felt the heavy hand of
his superiors and likes to know that
these same men are subject to the
same discipline.
Severe on Vodka.
Do You Know This?
The middle verse of . the Bible is.
the eighth verse of the 118th Psalm.
The twenty-first verse of the seventh
chapter of Ezra contains all the let-
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"/j." The longest verse is the ninth
verse of the eighth chapter of Esther.
The shortest yerse is the ninth verse
of the eleventh chapter of St. John.
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Many are the stories cur'rent about
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He favored, at the beginning of the
war, the prohibition of the sale of
vodka, -and he has been particularly
severe with those officers who have
broken the rule and, preferred the must a' been."
pleasures of revelry to the harsh
duties•. and dangers of the firing line.
"'Nicholas:' frequently' makes unex-
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