Medicine: Able Ogle

For seven years, George M. Ogle, able Manhattan power engineer, has been ogling at the secrets of life, death and "juice''* as exhibited by the electric chair at Sing Sing penitentiary. Last week Mr. Ogle announced some of the results of his observations and experiments :

1) The healthier a person is the easier he is to electrocute. Sick convicts require 2,700 volts for painless death; normal ones need only 2,000 volts. Engineer Ogle would have physicians look more carefully into the electrical condition of human organs in the diagnosis of disease. This, he...

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