Experiment with Two Leading Actresses Miss Olga Nethersole and Miss Lillah McCarthy engaged in an interesting experiment in the laboratory of the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, recently, to test the galvanic effect of emotions upon the body. Each lady placed two fingers in matter attached to " mysterious electric apparatus, and recited poetry. The drifting of a square of light on a ledge was supposed to indicate the force of the emotions aroused in the reciter. Miss Nether-sole's "square" oscillated more violently than Miss McCarthy's. Miss Nethersole's piece was "The Necklace of Tears," by "Carmen Sylva," and Miss McCarthy's the deathbed speech of John of Gaunt.
The experiments now proceeding, which are made at the instance of Sir Frederick Mott, have a definite object in view, which is thus described: "All emotions are, in their essence, the sensations of complex bodily changes; thus to think of rage is to think etta sensation, of a quickened pulse, a tightening of the muscles, a clenching of the hands, and a tumultuous sensation in the breast; to think of grief is to recall the feelings of bodily depression. If these bodily sensations are abstracted there is nothing left of the emotion.
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