Human Magnets

Experiments made recently by scientific men in France, says the London Standard, have developed a somewhat curious and unexpected fact - namely, that certain persons possess a magnetic polarity - that is, they are found to act after the manner of magnets, having, in fact, north and south poles. In such a case the individual, on being completely undressed and placed near a sensitive galvanometer, will, when turned on a vertical axis, cause a deflection, first in one direction and then in the opposite, just as a magnet will do. It is not assumed that all persons possess this polarity, but in the case of Professor Murani, an Italian, upon whom the experiment was tried, the phenomenon was unmistakably exhibited, it being found that his breast corresponded to a north pole and his back to a south pole.