The Chain of Life

This interesting book of 215 pages deserves to be read not only by medical men, be they allopaths or homoeopaths, but also by scientists, philosophers, spiritualists and laymen. The matter contained in the book relates to the subiect of setheric waves and their relation to disease. Itis well presented and crips the reader in a manner similar to that of Edgar Wallace's stories. It is impossible to summarize the twenty-two chapters of the book or to comment on them individually. For purposes of this review it. is enough to state that in the book the view is expressed that the whole universe is pervaded by aetheric waves or 'wireless' waves and every animal, plant, and nonliving matter sends out and receives, even though situated at great distances from one another, setheric waves. These waves operate on them differently according to their nature. So far as man is concerned the waves influence the state of his body and mind. In health man sends out one kind of wave and in disease another kind. By recording the nature of the waves sent out by the body in some suitable receiving set it is possible not only to determine whether a person is healthv or diseased but also to state what the nature of the illness is. All that one has to do is to study the aetheric waves emanating from a sick