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...Hyman tickler imitates the action of the heart's "pacemaker." The pacemaker is a spot in the wall of the heart's right auricle. Here originates the stimulus which excites the normal heart to beat about 70 times a minute. Dr. Hyman's investigations told him that the stimulus is an electric current generated by the pacemaker. Ingeniously he measured that current, found it about one-thousandth of one volt...
...fanfare of pressagentry saluted the sailing of a Dr. Paul Gillet of Paris* for Manhattan last week. Dr. Gillet is a nose-tickler, one who claims to cure all manner of ailments by touching a nasal nerve with a stylet and simultaneously gazing steadily into the patient's eyes...
...TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES. (Of course the other crimes such as-burglary-arson-murder-THEFT-etc., etc. are nothing at all in the eyes of the ultras-as compared to the possession of a "pint tickler of yaller corn" "that would make a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog's face...