TheHumanAtmosphere 10277492

TH E HUMAN AT MOSPH ERE
AURA MAD E VISI BL E BY T H E A I D OF

C H EM I CAL S C R EENS
T H E H U M A N
ATM O S PH E RE
TH E AU RA M AD E VI S I BL E B Y T H E
A I D OF C H E MI CAL S C REENS
BY
WALT E R J . L
KI NE R , B A
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, M E. . C a nt a b .
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ET O .
, LAT E E LEC T R I C IAN AT
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ST . T H O M As s H O S P I T A L, L O N DO N
I LL US TRA TE D
N EW Y O RK
REBMAN CO MPANY
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C OPYRI GHT 19 11 BY , ,
R E B M A N C O M PA N Y
N EW Y ORK
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En ere d at S t ti
a on e r s
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H all London
, , 191 1 , by
REB MA N LI M I TE D
LON DON
A ll Righ ts r es erv ed
y J UN 3 10
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PRIN TED IN A M ERI C A

P R E FA C E
T HE perce ption of the H uman Atmosphere

or Aura by the sole e mployment of mate ri
,
al means ,at once makes the phenomenon a

ph ysical question From the first moment of
.
see ing t he h uman atm osphe re I determined ,
to investigate the subj e ct apart from all oc

cultism ; and t o re main u nbiased d id not read
, ,
an y accounts of the Aura until a large numbe r

( over sixty ) of patients had been insp e cted .
A s all the descripti o ns and references to the

Aura that could be found were With out excep ,
tion in occult Works a nd afiorded little assist

, ,
ance to ph ysical investigation I have decided

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to insert n o quotations T his resolution places

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me in a peculiar position of having n o a utho ri

ties to fall b ack upon which in s om e ways is an
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advantage and a disadvantage in others

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T he titl e of H uman Atm osphere a happy -
—
insp iration of a frie nd is especially appropri
ate to the subject because it conve ys a clea r
,
vi P R E FAC E
ide a to the general public While the term ,
“
Aura n otwi thst a ndin g its defin itio n
, an y
subtle invisible e manation e ffiuv ium o r e x

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hal ation from a substance as aro ma of fl owe rs , ,
Webster s D icti o nary — is c o nfi d t o

( )
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etc . n e
people possessing som e kn owledge of occultism .
Th e word Aur a has h owever been retain e d fo r

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“
sho rtne ss and convenie nce as Atm osphe re ”
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would be misleading when used a lone and ,
wh en combined with H uma n is t o sa y the

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least cumbe rsom e

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Afte r what has been said about t he desire to

be perfectly fre e from O ccultism it may seem ,
strange that the expre ssi on Etheric D ouble

h as been empl oyed T his n am e was bo rrowed
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from th e osophic b ooks as n o appropriate te rm ,
has as y et b een de vise d .
2 1 8 LA DB RO KE G RO VE ,
LON DO N .
T A BLE O F C O N TE N T S
PR E FAC E
C HAPT E R I
T HE AU RA OF H E A LT H Y P S S
E R ON
C HAPT E R II
T H E ETH ERI C D U
O BLE
C HAPT E R III
T HE I NN ER A ND OU AU S
TE R RA
C HAPT E R IV
C O M PLE M ENTA RY COLOU RS
C HAPT E R V
AU S RA IN D I S EA S E
T ABL E OF C ONT ENTS
C HAPT E R VI
C O M PLE M E NTA RY C O LO U S
R IN DISEA SE
C HAPT E R VI I
“ AU E RA DU RI N G P RE GN A NC Y
APP EN D I X
IN D EX
LI ST OF I L LUST RA TI O NS
1 .
— H e althy bo y Fr o nt vie w
S i de vi e w
3 .
— H ea 1thy , ve r y st ro n
g man F ro nt vi e w
S i de vi e w
5 .
-H ea lthy y o un
g g i rl F r o nt vi e w
6 .
—The sa m e S i de vi e w
7 .
—H e a1thy g i rl ( Tra n s it i o n a l Aura
) . F ro nt vi e w
S i de vi e w
9 —H. ealthy wo m an ( Av er a
g
e Aura ) . F r o nt vie w
10 —Th e
. sa m e S i de vi e w
ll .
—H e althy wo m an v
( ye r fin e Aur a
) . Fr o nt vi e w
12 .
—The sa m e S i de vi e w
13 .
—H e althy wo m an F r o nt vie w
Il
l
a
—H y ster i c al A ur a F r o nt vi e w
S i de vi e w
16 .
— Epi le pti c Aur a of a ma n
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L I ST OF I LLU ST R A T I ONS
1 7 . Epi le pti c Aur a

— of a wo m an
18 — E il e ti c Au
ra o f a bo y Fr t vi
on ew
.
p p
19 — T he
. sa m e S i de V ew i
20 — Gra nul a r
. Au ra of a wo m an F ro n t vi ew
21 .
— T he sa m e S i de V ew i
22 .
—Aur a o f bo y i
w th c o n i c al g p
a on ri ght s i de .
23 .
—Abno r m a l sh a
p e o f Au ra w i th r a dua l re co
g very
24 .
— Ve ry a bn or m al Sh a
p e of Aur a
25 .
—H y
ri c l Au i w
ste a ra n a o m an Fr o nt view
26 — Th
. m e sa e S i de vi e w
27 — T W di c l
. O d p t ch s o ore a es o n th e back see n by the
id f th C C b d
a o e . . an
28 —Aur ( i gul r) f m
. a rre a o a an
T A BLE S A ND C AS E S
T ABL ES
TA B LE PAGE
I — Parents an c
d h i ld r en
II .
— Brothers an d s s e s it r
CAS ES
C AS E
1 H 1thy i f t fift h u
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-
ea n an ee n o rs Ol d
2 — H lthy m l i f t f u m
. ea a e n an , o r o nths O l d
3 — H lthy b y fi y
. ea ld o , ve e a rs O
4 —Y uth f urt y
. o ,ld o ee n e ar s o
5 — P w ful m thi ty th y
. o er an, r - r ee e a rs o ld
6 — F m l chi ld w k ld
. e a e , a ee O
7 — Fr gil c it bl c h ild f u
. a e, e x a e , o r
y e a rs O ld
8 — St .
g h l t h
ro n
y g i l v
, y
ea r , se en e a rs o ld
9 — H lthy gi l thi t y r
. ea r , r e en e a s O ld
10 — M i d w m tw ty i y
. arr e o an, en -S x e ars O ld
11 W m .
-th i rty y
o an, ld e ar s o
XI
xii T ABL ES AND CAS ES
C ASE
12 .
—Marri ed w m tw ty fi
o an , en - ve
y ea s O r ld
13 .
—Yo un g w m two ty t w an , en - o
y e a s Olr d
IL
‘ — Gi rl , e i ght y e a rs O ld
l5 .
-
M an , t w e nty -th r ee
y e a rs o ld
16 .
— Gi rl , e i ghte en y e ars O ld
l7 -Bo th i r tee n y e a rs O l d
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.
y ,
l8 .
— M an , fifty -e i ght y e a rs O ld
19 .
— Yo un g w o m an —n er v o us bre a k -do w n
20 —Spi nster
.
, th i ty r -se ven y r
e a s O ld
21 .
—W o m a n , th i r ty f
- ou ry r ea s o ld
22 .
—H ea lthy wo m a n, t w e nty -n i ne y ea s O r ld
23 — Y o un g w o
. m a n, t w e n ty y e a r s O ld
flti —Bo y , te n y e ars O l d
26 .
— G i rl , se ve n y r
e a s Ol d
27 .
—Si ngle wo m an , th i ty r y e a rs o l d
28 .
—M an , t w e nty -t w o
y e a rs O ld
29 — U n m arr i e d w o m an fo rty se ve n
.
,
-
y e a rs o ld
30 —W o m n fifty e i ght y e ars O ld

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81 .
—M arr i e d w o m an , tw e nty -e i ght y e a rs O l d
32 .
—Py r os s i
T ABL ES AN D CAS ES x iii
C AS E
33 .
-U lc e r o f sto m ch
a
34 .
—P ia n in c er vi c la re
g i on
35 .
—
Ne rvo u bre a k
s d
- own
36 —Pr
. a a ly i
s s
37 .
—Chest
c m pl o i
a nt
38 — .Ch t m ples co i
a nt
SIR — Pr g cy e na n
41 .
— Y o ung wom an ( no rm l h lth)
a ea
42 .
— M arr i e d w m o an ( m l h lth)
no r a ea
TH E H UMAN A T MO S PH E RE
OR
TH E A URA MAD E VI S I BL E BY T H E
AID OF C H EMI CAL S C REENS
C HAPT E R I
T HE A URA OF H E A LT HY PE RSON S
HA RDLY o n e pe rson in te n th ousand is aware

th at he or she is surroun de d b y a haz e inti
.
m ately connected with t h e body Wh e ther aslee p ,
o r awake whethe r h ot o r cold which although

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invisible under o rdin ary circumstance s can be ,
seen wh e n con ditio ns are favourable T his .
mist the prototype of the halo o r nimbus

,
constantly depicted aroun d th e saints h as be en ,
m anife sted to ce rtain indivi d uals po ssessing a

speci ally gifted sight wh o have received the
,
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title Of Clairvoyants and until quite re
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ce nt l y to n o o ne e lse Th e cloud o r atmos

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ph e r e ,or a s,it is generally term e d Aur a is the , ,
1
2 T HE H UMAN AT M OS PH E R E
subj ect of this tre atise in so far as it ca n be
,
pe rceive d by t h e empl oym e nt of screens con

taining a peculiar ch e mical substance in solu
ti on I t ma y as we ll be state d at once th at w e
.
m ake not the slightest claim to clai rvoyancy ;

nor are w e occultists ; and w e especially desire
to impress o n our re ade rs that o ur resea rches
have been entire ly physical and can be re
,
p e a t e d by a ny o n e w h o take s su fficient inte rest
in th e subject .
As long as th e faculty of perceiving the Aura

is confined t o a few individuals and o rdinary
F
pe ople h ave no means of c o rroboration or refuta

tion the do o r to imposture is open S ince this
, .
has be en the case up t o the present time the ,
subj e ct has always been l ooke d on aska nce ; but

there is n o more Charlatanism in the de te ction
o f the human A Dr a b y t h e methods w e em
ploy th a n in distinguis hing microbes by the a id

,
of t he mic roscop e The m a in diffe rence lies I n

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the claim of some people th at they are abl e to

pe rceive the one through the possession of ab
no rm a l e yes ight while no one h as h ad the
,
hardihood t o assert th at they h ad the power of

seeing an object one -thousa ndth of a mi llimeter
4 T HE HU MAN AT M OS PH E R E
ca ped the n otice of other O bse rvers S ome of .
the deductions m ay be thought a nd perh aps ,
rightly t o be t oo d o gm atic since they are

, ,
founde d upon such a sm a ll n umber of c ases ;

but our excuse is th at th e y have bee n brought
forward with th e inte ntion of th e ir be ing wo rk
ing hyp othese s t o assist in future obse rvations .
T h e disc o very of a scr een capabl e of making

t h e A u ra visible w a s by no m e ans accidental .
“
Afte r re ading ab out th e acti on s Of the N
R ays upon ph osph o rescent s u lphide of calcium ,
w e were fo r s o me tim e e xperimenting o n t h e
mechanical fo rce of certa in e manati on s from

t h e b o dy , an d h a d com e to t h e c onclusion ,
Wh e th e r rightl y or wr o ngl y that w e had de

,
t e ct e d two forces besides h e at that c o uld a ct
upon our needles and th at these fo rces were

,
situated in the ultra red portion of the spe c

trum .
T here w a s a hitch in o ur e xperiments ; a nd ,
in t he early p a rt of 1 9 08 we th ought that ce r

,
tain dye s mi ght assist us Afte r considering

.
t h e diff e re nt sp e ctra and a s far as w e coul d

, ,
ascertaining the ir propertie s w e made trial of

,
seve ral an d fixe d up on o ne which in this tre a

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T HE AUR A OF H EALT HY PE RSONS 5
tise will be calle d Sp ecta ur amne as the most 1

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likely t o be of use As w e we re co mpelled to .
wait som e time befo re w e were able to O btai n

it o ne nigh t the th ou ght flash ed across us that
,
that substance might make some p o rtion Of th e

a bove m e nti one d fo rces visible ; and if so w e , ,
expe cte d it would be th e human Aura T his .
phen omenon w e h ad heard about but until that ,
m ome nt w e had neve r had any in ten tion of in

v e st ig a t in g it as w e be lieve d it to be be yond
,
our n atural p owe rs .
As soon as the chemical had been rece ived ,
screens made of g lass coated with coll odion and ,
a lso ge latine dyed with it we re made but were , ,
found to be entirely useless owing to deco m

position taking place immediately Afte rwards .
m f i d w h h v c full y c i d d th qu ti
So e r en s, o a e ar e o ns e re e es o n,
c mm d th l m f th d mp l y d t b d i vulg d
re o en e re a na e o e y e e o e o e e
Thi w uit w illi g t ly it i t l t t lt th

.
s e are q e d n o o , on s oo a e o a er e
t m Sp t
er
“
i th gh t th t x t th b k i i
e c aur an ne
”
rou ou e e , as e oo s n
th h d f th p i t l m f th dy i Di y “
e an s o Th e r n e rs e re a na e o e e s c a
Th bl c cc mp y i g th b k m l y c t i
.
”
M a . e ue s r e en s a o an n e oo e re on a n
a l ti f d icy i
so u on d th
o d c t i c mi Th
an n , an e re on a n ar ne . ese
fu c
o th
r s re e ns ly c y f di y b v
ar e e on o ne s ne e s s ar o r or n ar o se r a
ti f th A
on s o e ur a .
Th i v i d tl y g t d ifficulty i th m uf c t
e re s e en f a re a n e an a ure o
th thi fl t c ll
ese n w c a ld fi d e i Gs,t B it i
as e ou n no o ne n re a r a n or
i A m ic w h w
n er l d d t k t m k th m b t t l t w
a o ou un e r a e o a e e u a as e
cc d d i fi di g f ig fi m bl t c t ct th m
,
h v
a e su ee e n n n a o re n r a e o ons ru e .
6 T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH ER E
a celluloid solution called Zap on w as t ri ed .
Th is ga ve a bette r result ; but in a fe w hou rs

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time it too l ost its col our S ubsequently solu

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ti o ns in alcoh ol Of diff ere n t strengths in glass

cells were e mpl oyed T hese seem o n the Wh ole
.
to be satisfactory but there is tende ncy after a

,
time for col our changes t o t ake place e ven if ,
kept in the dark a s much a s possible As a .
rule onl y two screens a re necessa ry : one con

tainin g a solution Of spectaura n ine in alcohol ,
a n d a sec o nd less dilute O the rs of vari ous

.
strengths with a nd with out the addition of

,
oth e r dyes have been tried but these were

, ,
only for purposes of experiment under diff ering

circumsta n ce s Fo r o rdi n ary work these a re
.
unnecessary However anoth e r kind of screen

.
,
will be found useful for diff e rentiating the sep

ara te parts of the Aura which will be described ,
late r on .
D i rectl y a screen w as fin ished w e looked at ,
a frie nd through it an d inst antl y s aw a round

,
his h e ad and hands a faint gre yish cl oud which ,
w e consid e red c o uld be nothing e lse but the
Aura Afte r a few minutes w e were su rprised

.
to find t ha t w e c o uld continue t o see the Au ra

THE AUR A OF H EALT HY PE RSONS 7
without the inte rvention of t h e scree n T his .
power did n ot last l on g However it was re

.
,
newed by looking a t th e light fo r a few seconds

through a dark scre e n .
I t is inte resti n g t o n ote that this capacity for

see ing the Aura with out t h e intervention of the
scre e n is by n o me an s uncomm on but ge nerally
,
e xists o n ly fo r a s h o rt while At this peri od

.
e ve ry spare m ome n t was occupi e d in using t he
screen fo r this and othe r e xpe rim e nts in con

n e ct io n with t h e p e rc e p ti on of t h e Aura con ,
sequently w e d iscove re d to our cost that the

s pecta u ra n in e had a ve ry de le te ri ous effect
upon o ur eye s making them ve ry painful s o
, ,
much s o that it was nece ssary to ce ase wo rk

f o r s o m e days
. O n accoun t Of this w e strongly
,
recomm e nd a ll e xperimenters o n this subject ,
not to be continually l ookin g through the spec

t a uran ine scre e n . Appare ntly t he acti on of
this che mical is cum ulative so that we gradu
,
ally gaine d the powe r of seei n g the Aura m o re

and m o re plai n ly With out t he i n terve n tion of
t h e scree n
. U ltimately o u r e ye s h ave bec o m e
s o pe rmane ntly affe cte d that under suita ble
conditi ons we are able to dispense with a screen .
8 T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH E R E
N everth e less, w ethink it e xpedient to look at
the light fo r a few seconds through a spectau
ranin e scre en befo re inspection and e ven then
,
w e s o metim e s find t h e Aura is b e tter se en
through a light o n e At oth e r times the re

.
ve rse h olds good th ough the conditions may

,
be exactly similar in t he two c a se s .
T h e Au ra can o n ly be satisfact o rily defined

wh e n ce rtain con ditions are fulfill e d The .
light m ust n ot be too bright T h e re quisite

.
am ount m ust be de termin e d at e ach O bse rva

ti on and depen ds on wh e the r a scree n is be ing
,
used o r n ot A rough e stim ate is that t he

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,
b ody can just be seen distin ctly afte r th e Ob

se rve r has be come accustomed to t h e dulne ss .
Th e light o ught t o be diff u sed c o ming from

,
one direction only an d falling on th e pati e n t

,
equ ally all ove r C e rt ai n ly the be st a rrange

.
,
ment is O btain e d when t h e O bserver is sta n ding

with his back to a darke ne d Wi n dow whil e t h e
p atient face s it An altern ative m e th od if t h e
.
,
room is sufficien tly large and ope n and the ,
only o n e that can be e mpl oye d at a patient s ’
h o use is to h ave a te n t similar t o t h e X fo lding

,
po rt able d ark room as use d for photograph y

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THE AUR A OF H EA LT HY P E RS ONS 9
e xcept th at it must be lined with bl ack inste ad

Of t h e ordinary yellow material a nd t h e front
,
curtains must be re move d T h e te nt is placed

.
with its back t o th e win dow and the patient

stands inside wh e n h e will be evenl y il lumi
,
nated All t he windows in the room e xcept

.
,
t h e one at the back of the tent sh o uld be com

,
p l e t e l y dark e ne,d whil e this o n e must h a ve t h e
blind drawn m o re o r less as requi red The .
chief objection to this arrangement is that the ,
observer has to stand fa cin g the light,which is

not s o comforta ble fo r any p art of the inspec
ti on and is e specially inconve nie nt for the o h
,
se rv a tio ns c o nnected with the complement ary
col ours , as will be described later on O cca .
s io n a l l y it is p ossible at a p atient s house with

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a little manoeverin g to be able to pl ace the

,
tent with its opening facing the window .
When th is I s done inspection is rendered much

easier I t is essential to h ave the bl ack back
.
ground a s dead black as is obtainable .
Most of our investigations h ave been con

ducted in a sm a ll room with only one window .
T his window is fitte d at the top with a n ordi

nary blind and from below a blind of black
,
10 THE HUMAN AT M OS PH E R E
se rge can be raise d to any height required .
T h e s e rge allows a c o nsiderable amount Of light

t o p ass through in fact too much e xcept o n
, ,
ve ry da rk days ; but t he amount can be regu

late d by pulling down th e ordin a ry blind .
T his arrangement is also very convenient as ,
a slight gap ca n be left be twee n th e two bl inds

so as to all ow much more light into the room
when t he patie nt is being o bserved through
t h e dark carmin e screen and also occa sion
,
ally wh e n th e complementa ry colou rs are em

pl oyed.
O pposite and about eight feet f rom the w in

,
dow is a m ovable p ole supporting bl a ck and

white curtains e ither of which c an be used a s
,
wa nted T h e white background is necess a ry

.
for cert a in observations which will be described

,
farther on T hese are al l the a rrangements

.
th a t are required .
T here is one point th a t is impo rt a nt to

bea r in mind n a mel y th at the p atient shoul d
, ,
st and about a foot in front of the background ,
s o th at shadows or m a rks upon it may not p ro

duce any optical illusions a nd thus viti a te the
,
observations Troub l e of this kind is not likely

.
e m anating from t h e body will be re inf orced
by that procee ding from t he arms .
Wh e n comm encing a syste m atic inspection

it will be advisabl e fo r the pati e nt first to face
t h e O bs e rv e r and t h e light . T h e Aura round
t h e h e ad will be b e st see n whil e he st a nds or
sits with his hands hanging by h l S sides I ts .
breadth may roughly be de termined by uotie

ing h ow far it exte nds b eyond t h e shoulde rs ,
an d this p ermits th e two sides to be compare d ,
be ca use in s om e cas e s of disease the Aura will

be Wide r o r narrowe r on o n e side than o n the
oth e r At this sta ge atte n ti on ought t o be
.
paid t o th e gen e ral shap e of t h e Aura whil e the

arms a re hangin g d own as this Ofte n diff e rs
,
gre atly from that see n wh e n th e y are uplifte d .
Fo r t h e gre ater part of t h e inspection it wil l

be fo u n d advantage o us for the pati e nt to sta n d
with his ha n ds be hin d his n e ck so that the,
Aura from t h e axilla d own the trunk thighs , ,
a n d l e gs may be s ee n u n in fl ue n ce d b y t h e Aur a
procee ding fro m the arms T his is the time

.
t o d etermin e t h e shape a n d siz e of the Aura ,
wheth e r it foll ows t h e contour of the body o r

whether it is wide r by t h e trunk th an t he lower
T HE AURA OF H EALT HY PE RSONS 13
limbs ; a nd if s o h ow far it desce nds befo re it

, ,
fin all y narrows . I t is n ot un comm on fo r some

abno rmality of texture to be visible but this , ,
as a rule ca n be diffe re n tiate d with greate r ac

,
curacy by the e mpl oym e n t o f special scre e ns .
O ccasionally the Aura can be separated by

its appe arance into two or ve ry rare ly three , ,
disti n ct p o rti ons but th e verification o f this

,
division will be better ma de at a late r stage of

t h e e x a mination As s oon as a ll t he informa
.
tion as to t he Aura at the sides has bee n

g ai n e d, t h e p ati e nt must be turn e d sideways ,
s o that the Aura at t h e fron t and back may be

similarly e xamin e d I f an y susp ici on sh ould
.
a rise as to the Aura be in g un e qually illumi

nated it must be ( in a ddition to t he fo re goin g
,
inspection ) viewe d whe n the back is turn e d to

,
t h e light ,an d ag a in wh en turn e d side ways

in the direction opposite to t he o ne he p re
vio usl y assumed B y this simple m e ans a
.
number of e rrors are eliminate d T h e Aura .
envelops the whole of t he human frame but '
, ,
on account of t he fine ne ss of its texture and

its transpa rency it is onl y visibl e in sections ;
,
co nsequentl y when the o bse rver wishes to ex

a mine the Aura emanating from o ne p a rticular
spot he will be obliged t o turn the p atient to a
,
diff erent angle so th at a silhoue tte of this spot

,
may be made o n the b ackground Ge nera lly .

,
if the shape of the Aura is the onl y thing re

quired it can be ascertaine d by t h e patient first
,
sta nding facing the O bserver a nd th e n sideways

,
without any other movement Considerations .
of the other portions of the syste m a tic inspec

tion must be defe rre d for the prese nt .
Ex amination of a number of people in good

health shows no t merel y as might be expected
, ,
individual diff e rences but als o the existence of

,
a co rporate dissI mi larit y M ales independent

.
,
of a ge p ossess the same characteristics of the

,
Aura afte r making allo wa n ce for individual

,
peculiarities as n o two people are alike Quite

, .
t h e o pposite is the cas e in females bec a use their

,
Auras unde rgo a gre a t altera ti o n of shape at

ce rt ain periods of the ir lives I n childhood it
.
coincide s alm ost e xactly Wi th that of the mal e .
I n adults it is much more deve loped while in ,
—
adolescence from twelve to thi rteen until eigh
—
tee n to twenty ye a rs it slowly advances from
the m ascu line type to th at of a dult wom anhood .
T HE AURA OF H EALT HY PERSONS 15
I nspe cti on of a m an discloses the Aura envel

oping the he ad fairly equall y all round it be ,
in g a bo ut tw o inches bro ader than t h e width

of the sh oulders Wh e n he stands facing the
.
o bse rve r with his arms raised and his h ands

,
at th e back of his ne ck the Aura will appe ar

,
by t he side of his trunk narrower than round

his head followi n g cl osel y the contour of the
,
body Here it does not usuall y exceed m ore

.
than four or five inche s in width o r roughly , ,
speakin g o ne fiftee nth of his he ight As soon

,
- .
as he has turne d sideways it will be see n down

,
his back about as broad as by the sides of the

trunk but barely as wide as in front I n all
, .
these cases it is similarly continued down the

l owe r limbs on ly some tim e s be ing a little nar
,
rowe r Aroun d the arms it corre sp onds with

.
that encirclin g the legs but 1 s ge nerally ,
broader a roun d the hands an d ve ry fre que ntly

,
it proj ects a l ong distance from the tips of the

finge rs .
Befo re a g irl has arrived at t h e a ge of twe lve

o r thirtee n th e descripti on of th e Aura of the
mal es will be e qually applicabl e to h e r N e ve r .
t h e l ess t h e te xture of t h e Aura is usuall y fin er

,
16 THE HUMAN AT M OS PH ER E
th an th at of a m an so th at it occasiona ll y be
,
comes difficult to distinguish the e dge of the

h az e I n like m a nner but not to the s ame
.
,
exte nt the Aura s o f young boys m ay be faint

, .
T his prevents children from being good subjects

for e a rl y observations O n O bserving the Aura
.
of an adult wom a n a ch a racteristic alteration is

fo und Above the sh o ulders round the h e ad
.
,
d own th e arms and han ds it is very similar

to that of t h e males If sh e faces the observer
.
with the han ds place d behind the ne ck the ,
dissimilarity is at once noticeable T h e Aura .
is m uch wide r by the side s of the trunk th an

in me n and broade ns out until at the leve l of
, ,
the waist it has re ach e d its full extent From

, .
h e re d ownwards it graduall y narrows until it

,
reach e s a p oint n ot high e r th a n the middle

Of t h e thigh wh e re it fin all y contracts and
,
foll ows the o utline of the legs and feet How .
e ve r
, t h e p o int o f final c o ntraction ma y be
anyw h e re betwee n the place just mentione d an d

t h e ankl e s .
As she stands side ways the Aura wil l be s e en

,
to be much wider at th e back th a n at the front ,
a n d t h e bro adest part is at t h e small Of the b a ck

TH E AURA OF H EALT HY P ERS ONS 17
where it f requentl y bulges out From thence .
it comes down from near th e nates foll owing ,
th e contour of the legs a n d thighs I n front .
it t akes the outline of the body be in g a little ,
wider at the che st and abdome n than lower

down I t is not uncomm on to fin d t h e haze
.
more pronounced in front of the bre asts and

nipples and this incre ase is e viden tly de p e nde nt
,
upon the functi on al activity of t h e gla n ds as it ,
is most appare nt during pre gn ancy and lacta

tion but is occasi on ally t h e same just befo re o r
,
after m e nstruation Wh e n th e Aura is fully

.
developed age does not produce any alte rati on

,
but disease may Figs 9 to 1 3 are good spe ci

. .
me ns of the Au ra of a woman in h e alth .
Amongst he althy wom e n the Aura s h ows

m any dep a rtures from the above e xample s .
T h e m odificati on s c onsist in t h e diff e re nce of

width by th e side of th e trunk a n d the dista nce
it desce nds befo re it has contracte d to its fulle st
,
e xtent a nd foll ows th e contour of the body

, .
Beside s it will be notice d that t h e bre adth in

,
front of th e body ofte n alte rs but n o t n e arly to

,
th e sam e e xte n t At t h e back chan ge s e m o re

.
, ar
freque n t and varied T he se are chiefly due to

.
18 T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH ERE
diffe rences in brea dth a nd the p osition of the
fin al contra ction With one pe rson the outer
.
margin of the haz e is app a re ntl y quite straight

from the l eve l of the shoulde rs t o the m ost
prominen t part of the nates and from th e nce
,
it fo llows the outline of th e body downwa rds .
With a nother person it will bulge out at the

small of the b ack contracting when it rea ches
,
t h e middle Of the thigh or it m ay be n e a r the

,
gro und befo re it fo ll ows th e figure O cc asion

.
a lly the Aura proceeds downwards from over

the he ad to the feet without coming ne ar the
body T his w e c onsider to be the most perfect
.
shape A ny devi ations a re due to undevelop

.
ment Th e avera ge width of the Aura over a

.
wom a n round the wa ist is eight t o ten inches ,
and on some not more th a n six or seven inches ,
but it m ay reach twelve or more (vide Figs 9 .

,
1 1,
When a girl approaches t he a ge Of pube rty

her Au ra begins t o sh ow a n altera tion leaving
,
the infantile fo rm to atta in in from four to six

,
yea rs th e shape assum e d by an adult wom an

,
.
T he change d oes n o t usu a ll y c ommence until

a short time before menst ru ation a ppea rs but ,
h ad both he r ovaries removed sixteen years
a go had a fairly marked Aura quite up to the
,
average in width by the sides of the trunk but ,
especiall y broad at the back and front .
T here can be no tw o opinions a s to the en

l a rgement of the female Aura at the period of
adoles cence but it remains to be proved Whether
,
this is entirel y due to the fun ctI o n al m a turity of

the sexual organs o r wh e ther the other changes
,
which have taken pl a ce in the system contribute

to its development B ut this much can be con
.
-
fiden t l y stated as will a ppe a r l a ter on that

, ,
m e nstruation h as a subtle effect on the Aura ,
while the changes in shape in e a rly pregnancy

a re not very pronounced D urin g a later period
.
a grea t extension in fron t of the breast and the

lower part of the a bdomen ma y appear but this ,
is only temporary and local The subject will .
be discussed later on .
Fo r the sake of simp licity a nd to avoid un ,
n e c e ss a r y r e petition in the above description ,
t h e Aura has been treat ed as if it w ere a
simpl e phen omenon while in reality it is com

,
po s it e .
L ate r on its e lem e n ts will be full y co nsid

THE AURA OF H EA LT H Y PE RSONS 21
r d but fo r th e pre se n t it will be sufficie nt to

e e ,
say that it can be divide d i nto three parts .
Fi rst the re is a n arrow transp arent po rtion

,
appearing as a dark space which is ve ry Ofte n

,
obliterate d by th e second portion of t he Aura .
Whe n visible it looks like a dark band n ot ex ,
cee din g a quarter of a n i n ch surro undi n g an d,
a djacent to the body Without an y alte ration

,
in size at any p art T his will be called t h e

.
E ther ic D ouble .
The second constitue nt is t he I nner A ur a .
I t is the dens e st porti o n a n d varie s compara

tiv e l y little o r even no t at all in wi dt h e ith e r
, , ,
at th e back front or side s an d both in t h e male

, , ,
an d t h e fe male follows the contour of t h e body .
I t aris e s j us t o utside t h e Etheric Double but ,
ve ry frequen tly it looks as if it touch ed the

body itse lf .
T h e third porti on o r t he O uter A ur a co m

, ,
me nces at th e o ute r edge of t he I nner Aura ,
and is very va riable in siz e I t is the extrem e

.
oute r margin Of this th at has been taken fo r

depicting the outline of the Aura hithe rto ,
.
When the whole Aura is o bserve d through a

l ight spect a uran in e screen o r a p al e bl ue o n e
, ,
22 T HE HU MAN ATM OS PH ER E
all the po rtions appe ar blended to gether but ,
the pa rt neare st the bod y is the m ost dense .
I f h owever a c a rmine screen be employed e a ch

, , ,
of the factors will be distinguished ; or should ,
this scre en be a fairl y d ark o ne the O uter ,
Aura will be elimin ated altogether .
T h e following descriptions of the Au ra s are

from a selection of persons in good hea lth va ry ,
ing in a ge from earl y inf ancy a nd upwa rds and ,
are typica l T h e y a re arranged a ccording to

.
—
age first m a les and then fem ales, .
.
—
CAS E 1 A a fin e healthy infant fifteen
.
, , ,
hou rs old w as inspected whilst l ying on its

,
mother s bed upon a bl a ck cloth Although

’
.
se en under ve ry unfavourable ci rcumstances ,
his Aura w as pl a inl y visible a nd in colour w as

,
grey tinged with ye llow As fa r a s could be

, .
s een it fo l lowed the out l ine O f the bod y T his .
is the youngest chi ld whose A ura w e h ave ex

amined a nd it m ay be inte resting to no te that
,
both the mothe r a nd the nu rse we re a ble to see

the cloud around h im if they looked th rough
,
the sc reen .
Wh en h e h ad arrived at the a ge of fo ur
months h e w as inspected a gain under more
,
T HE HU MAN ATMOSPH ER E
FI G . l .
— H e a lthy bo y .
T HE AURA OF H EA LT HY P E RSONS
FI G . 2 .
— H e a lthy bo y .
a qua rter inch e s an d was a little n a rrower by
,
the lower p a rt of the thighs an d the l e gs T he .
I nner Aura could be plainly distinguished be ,
ing nearly two inches wide by th e side of the

head and trunk and about o n e a nd a quarte r
,
by the legs When he turne d side ways th e

.
,
O uter Aura w a s found to be about two i n ch e s

wide in front and the I nner about a qua rter of
,
an inch less .
Both these m e asurements were slightl y di

minish e d lowe r down At the back the O ut .
er Aura w as two a n d a half inches wide

by the trunk but not quite so wide by th e
,
lower limbs H ere too t h e I nner w as a bout a

.
, ,
quarter Of an inch less than the O ute r Aura .
T h e col o ur w as a blue gre y I t is worthy Of .
notice th a t in children especi a lly among males , ,
the I nner Aura is almost as Wide a s the O uter ;

and often the two c an only be differentiated
with difficulty .
.
—
CASE 4 D a youth fourteen ye a rs old
.
, , .
H e is rather tall for his age and h a s enjoye d ,
good health a ll his life H is Aura w as well .
m a rked an d a bluish grey As he stood facing

, .
the Observe r th e O ute r Aura w as seven inches

,
T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH ER E
FI G 3 — H e a l th ve r y str o n man
. .
y , g .
T HE AURA OF H EALT H Y P E RS ONS
FI G . l
f
u
—H ea lthy , very stro n
g man .
THE A U RA OF H E A LT H Y PE RSONS 33
round h is h e a d,
by t h e side of his trun k fou r
i n ch es a n d l owe r down t h re e a n d a half i n ch e s
, .
Th e I nn e r Au ra was two i n ch e s W id e all ove r

t h e b od y .
T h e E th e ric D o ubl e was visible be i n g o ne ,
e ighth of a n i n c h wi d e Wh e n h e stood side

.
ways t he O ute r Aura was about three inches

,
wide by his sh oulde rs and nate s con se que ntly ,
fo r a male w as rather wi de at t h e small of the

back I n front the Aura w as three in che s wide
.
d own t he who le len gth .
CASE 5 (Figs 3 and —

. E a ve ry powe rful .
,
m an thirty three years of age H e w a s we ll

,
- .
proportione d in every respect and in robust ,
he alth H is Aura was blue with a little grey

. .
Th e O ute r Au ra surrounde d his head a little

wide r than th e breadth of his sh oulde rs ; a ll
down his trunk arms and legs it w a s fiv e inches
, ,
wi de T he I nner Aura w as extreme ly we ll

.
marked about thre e in ch e s wide S tria tion

, .
w as remarkably easy to s e e As h e stood side .
ways t he I nner Aura w as t he sa me width both

,
front and back but the O uter w as a trifle

,
narrower in front Th e Eth e ric Double w as

.
cle arly defined being nearly a quarter of an

,
inch wider H is wh ole Aura w as unusually
.
coarse in texture .
—
CAS E 6 F a female child a wee k O ld w as
. .
, , ,
inspected while she lay up on her mother s bed ’
on a black cl oth T h e exte rnal conditions we re

.
e xtremely u nf avourabl e but with a little diffi

, ,
cul ty the Aura w as seen as a greenish haz

, e
which followe d the outlin e of the b ody be ing ,
very n arrow ; but aroun d t h e h e ad it in creased a

little as might be e xpe cte d
, .
Whe n this infant had arrived at the a ge of

four m onths ( co rresponding with that of A ) S h e ,
w as examined a s e c o nd t im e u n d er b e tter condi
tions T he Aura w as ve ry difficult to pe rce ive

.
,
a s it w as n ot nearl y as distinct as e xpected a nd ,
w as o nl y half an inc h wide r ou nd her body ,
an d r a ther bro ad e r r o und the h e ad T h e m ost .
inte resting p oin t w as that th e c ol our had changed

fro m gre enish to a gray sha de .
CAS E 7 G a fragile e xcitabl e chi ld four

.
-
.
, , ,
yea rs O ld rathe r small fo r he r a ge but in good

,
hea lth w as obse rved in January 1 9 1 0 She h ad

, , .
a very extensi ve Aura fo r her a ge and si ze The .
O uter w as three i n ch e s wi d e all ove r h e r b ody ,
except round her h e a d whe re it ex te nde d to

,
T HE AURA OF H EALT HY P ERS ONS
FIG . 6 .
—H e lthy
a
y o un
g g i rl .
T HE AURA OF H EALT HY P E RSONS 39
nearly five inches Th e in ne r was also d istinct

.
,
striated an d two and a ha lf inches wide T he

, .
colour w as blue .
CAS E 8 (Figs 5 and . H a strong -

.
, ,
healthy girl seve n ye ars of age w ho had

, ,
never ha d any illness T h e col our of her Aura

.
was blue As sh e stood facing the obse rver the

.
,
O uter Aura w a s half a foot round he r h e ad .
By the side of he r trunk it w as three inche s ,
gradually n arrowing to tw o by her lower limbs .
As she st oo d si de ways h e r O ute r Aura me asured

,
tw o inches dow n t h e front and thre e at the ,
widest part Of the b ack and lower down it was ,
two inche s in width T he I nne r Aura w as two

.
inches round h e r head an d trunk e lsewhere ,
only o ne an d a half inch e s S he showed no .
rays.
CASE 9 (Figs 7 and . I T his exa mple I S -

.
e xtre mel y i n te resting as w e have been allowe d

,
to in spect h e r from time to time and thus able ,
to foll ow the growth of her Aura at the diff er

ent periods of her ea rly adolescence She is a
“
girl thirteen yea rs of age in good health S he , .
has l ately been deve loping fast but has not yet ,
menstruated I n October 1 9 08 She was in

.
, ,
sp ect e d , wh en he r Aura w as found to be the
same as in most young girls following the out ,
line s of th e body be ing about two inches wide

, ,
e xc e pt aro un d the h e ad whe re it wa s wider

, .
T h e c o l o u r was blue .
Afte r the lapse of e ight months she had the

appe aran ce of that of a small well shaped full ,
-
,
grown woman but she had not as y e t me n

,
s t ru a t e d . H e r Aur a had now ente re d into the

transition al state Around th e head it was a
.
little broade r than at he r sh oulders ; by t he side

of h e r trunk it w as about four inch e s wide a n d ,
about tw o and a half by he r thighs and le gs .
Wh e n sh e turne d sideways t h e Aura showe d an ,
incre ase to two and a half at th e sm a ll of th e

back but in front was not more th an two
,
inch e s wide .
Ma rch 1 9 1 0 S he has grown a little and is

, .
a shapely girl being j ust fourteen and a h a lf

,
ye ars Old a nd is in good he a lth H e r first

, .
period came just a month ago The Aura h a s .
e nlarged I t is now five a n d a h a lf inches by

.
the S ide of and over th e head As S he stands .
facing the observer along the trunk it is four

,
and a half in width contracting fu rther down to

,
T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH E R E
FI G . 7 — H e a lthy g i r l ( Tra ns iti ona l Aur a

) .
THE AU RA OF H EALT HY PE RSONS 45
two and a half inche s When S he turns side .
ways in front it is se e n to be thre e inches while

, ,
at the back at the Wide st part it is four an d

, , ,
gradually l owe r down it lesse ns to two an d a

half inche s The I nne r Aura is two inches wide
.
all ove r the body I t is easily pe rce ive d and

.
plainly striate d The Etheric Double coul d

.
just be discerne d Four mon ths late r the Aura

.
had increase d by the S ide of the trunk by a good

half inch but e lse whe re it remained unaltered
,
in measure me nt .
T his case is instructive as th e girl re tained ,
her juve nile Aura quite six m onths afte r she

had comme nce d he r outward bodily de ve l op
ment and the Aura in its turn be gan to e volve
,
twelve months before she first menstruated I t .
is als o a good example of the sl owness with

which t he Aura ch ange s from th e infantile to
the adult typ e .
CA SE 1 0 (Figs 9 and —K a ged twenty

. .
,
six years the m other of B Her Aura w as

, .
wh at might be expected in a perfec tly ave rage

woman of h e r age When she st ood facing the
.
observer t he O ute r Aura measured e ight

,
inche s round t he h e ad and wh e n she upraised,
he r arms it was th e sam e by her tru n k

, From .
here it decrease d until it had a rrived a t the
lower p art of the thighs where it w as th ree ,
inches wide a nd continued the s ame downwa rds

, .
T he I nne r Aura me a sured tw o a nd a h a lf inches

a l l over the body I t w as well m a rked a nd
.
,
stri ation could be e asily detected By the right .
side of the he ad the Aura was brighter and

looked a s if it were a broad faint ra y I t , .
re a ch e d t h e whole width Of t he S houlde rs and ,
proce eded upwards a s high as the level of the

crown of the head When she turned sideways
.
,
the O uter Aura in front w as three inches b ro ad

’
while at the b ack it was four at the widest p a rt .
T h e C C b a nd w as even a ll over the bod y but

. .
,
the left extension w as a little lighter th a n the

right T he colour of the Aura w as grey with a
.
,
S light blue S hade .
CA SE 1 1 (Figs 1 1 a nd.
—L a fine well .
, ,
built wo man thi rty yea rs of a ge w ho h a s

, ,
always bee n strong and he a lth y S he h a s n a t

~
.
m a ny a very e ven temper H er Aura is blue .

,
and is one of the finest w e h ave seen being , ,
a s she fa ces the O bse rver egg shap ed The

-
, .
O uter Aura is quite twe lve inches round the

hea d and bod y gradu a lly contracting to about
,
five inches a t th e a nkles T he absol ute ed ge

.
U
THE H MA N ATMOS PH ERE
FI G . 9.
—H ea lthy wo man ( e
A v r
age Aur
a ) .
T HE AURA OF H EALT H Y P ERSONS
FI G lo — H e alth wo m an
(Av r r
Au )
. .
y e a
ge a .
in determining the qualities of so many co nst it
uents of the human body it would be e xc e ed
,
ing l y strange if peculiarities of the Aura we re

not transmitted by descent T his part of the.
subject will of c ou rse requi re long and numer

, ,
ous observations before the question c a n be

settled definitely but e ve n the few cases of tw o
,
o r m o re individuals in the same family which ,
have already bee n examin ed S how th at this ,
surmise is most like l y c o rrect I t I s fa irly e asy

to comp a re the Auras of adults o n e with an
.
:
other when the y a re all of one sex B ut diffi .
cul t ie s commenc e when the c o mp a rison h a s t o
be m a de betwe en a man and a woman since ,
t h e m a sculin e Aura is so ve ry dissimilar fr o m
the feminine ; and fo r th e same rea son c om

, ,
parison between a woman s Aura and a child s

’ ’
is difficult Practically the onl y me thod is to

.
comp are the bre adth of the Aura of t he trunk of

the subjects a s they stand facing the observer
,
.
For this purpose some stand a rd will be requi

site One thing is patent that is the height of
.
m
,
a p atient d oes n ot m ake very much difl erence ’
in the breadth of the Aura since a t a ll m an or

,
woman doe s not seem to have his or her Aura

T HE H UM A N AT M OS PH E R E
FI G . ll .
- H ea lth y wo m an v
( y
e r fine Aur
a
) .
T HE AUR A OF H EALT H Y PE RS ONS
FI G . l2 .
—H e althy wo m an v
( ye r fine Au
ra ) .
T HE AURA OF H EALT HY P E RSONS
FI G . l3
.
—H ea lthy wo man .
fo r childre n be tween two and a h a lf to th ree
inch e s A S the Auras of ad o lescent girls are
.
changing from month to month they will h ave ,
to be conside re d e ach upon its ow n merits a s ,
no hard and fast rule c an be m ade These .
figures h ave bee n decided on by experie nce

onl y a nd not by a ny scientific plan A l
, .
though this a rrangement seems very simple ,
yet it is b y no means always ea sy to decide

whether a c a se is to be termed avera ge or not .
Ta king o n e inst a nce a lone : suppose a w o m

an had an Aura by the side of the trunk a lit
,
tle l a rger th an the limits laid down for the aver

a g e width a nd this contracted down the thighs
,
and legs (in fact being the h ysteric a l type of

,
Aura ) t o below the average under wh at head ,
ing sh ould it be pl aced ' T his case too must , ,
be considere d on its own merits T h e follow .
in g t a bles contain a ll the examples which have

b een investigate d of two or more individuals
of the same family up to d ate T he first table .
conta ins those cases whe re two generations are 1
involved and t h e se cond bel ongs to the same

,
generation I n two instances th e s ame person

.
comes int o both tables .
A d i n f mily th
n o ne a re e .
T HE AURA OF H EA LT H Y R
PE S ONS 61
TA B LE I .
-
PA REN TS AND CH I LD REN
C ond ition .
H e althy
C hil d 4 m thon H e althy
H e althy—C as e 2
H e althy
H e althy— C as e 6
C hi l d 4 m thon H e althy
H e althy
3t H e althy
38 H e althy
5 H e althy
7 H e althy C as e 26
-
w N e ur o tic— C a se 1 8
'
' 58
N 23 E p il e p tic— C as e 1 5
19 Ep il e p tic C as e 1 6
—
o 29 M a r r i e d d a u gh t e r
he althy ,
s
s
s
W
H
121:
9k
72
Gr andd aughte r dull
Gr andd aughte r
Hys te r ic al — C as e 14
,
o O 59 C h ron ic B righ t s dis ’
e as e
p Q 23 Hys te r ic al
o O 36 H e althy
wO 10 H e althy
o O 39 He althy
wO 6 H e alth y
z Z 33 Hys te r ic al A ura
s Z 6 H e althy
p 63 H e mi p l e gic
p 9 28 Hys te r ic al
o 26 H e althy C as e 1 0
—
O hil d m th 4 on H e althy
It w l d h v b c i d d w i d x c pt th t it w
1
ou a e een ons e re e e e a as n ar
w by th thigh d l g H d ght A i the

’
ro e s an e s er au er s ur a s on
b d f b i g w id
.
or er o e n e.
TA B LE I I — B ROTH ERS A N D S I STERS
.
B T''
S i t
s e rs
N ' D S it s e rs
B rothe r and S i s ter

3
L . N .
B r othe rs
i
S s te r s
f ll y d v l p
N ot u e e o e d
b ckw d a ar
,
Si t b th hy
s e rs , o s
te r ical A ur as
B r othe r and s i s te r
S i t
s e rs
S it s e rs
As tempe ram e nt is one of t he inherited at

tributes it becomes a lmost a certa inty that
,
young children do inherit Aura s varying in

diffe re nt degrees which will be retained more
1
Th e Oute r A ur a in ea ch of the s e w o m e n is w i de r on the r i ght
th l t
an o n th e e f
N t w id th lf h
.
2
o er an us ua or e r ag e .
3
H h d
as a o ne or tw o ep il p tic fit
e s, but no t f or t w o y e a rs .
M y b w id i th y tim ppe nd i x
’
4 a e e n tw o or re e e a rs e . See A .
T HE AUR A OF H EALT HY P E RSONS 63
or less una ltered during the wh ole of the ir lives ,
unless dise ase S hould cause some modification .
A S migh t be expecte d fro m what has be e n sai d

above concern in g here dity it will be foun d that
,
Auras of quick and intellige nt chil d ren h owe ve r ,
young and untraine d will be m o re exte nsive

,
than th ose of the dull and phlegmatic although ,
the latte r ma y have the advanta ge in p hysique .
T he fo rmer too will probably have Auras larg er

, ,
and the latter smaller than t he ave ra ge With .
adults much the same thing pe rtains as th e ,
finest Auras envel op the m ost in tellige nt peo

ple and small ones surround persons wh o are
,
dull o r of a low intellectual type T his is not

, .
merely seen a round their bodies but becomes ,
more m a rked round the ir heads ; and is more

noticeable am ong men than women as the ,
Auras of t he fo rme r do not develop to the

sa me e xten t round the ir b odies T he Auras .
encirclin g wome n a re much m ore variabl e ; but

t he fin e st s p ecime ns will invariably be fou n d
encircling th ose who are naturally in te lli gent

and sl ightly e xcitable but w ho have n o ten
,
dency to ne urotic complaints I t h owe ver

.
, ,
m ay be intere stin g to Observe that t he m ost

e xtensive Auras w e have up to the present time
seen belonged to a hea lthy woman wh o w as
,
naturall y quiet but by n o me ans phlegm atic

, .
I n the above descriptions perfect he a lth is t a ken

fo r gra nted ; a nd it is interesting to re membe r
that it is onl y the O uter Aura that S hows va ri a
tions while the I nner rem a ins st ation a ry
, .
T his is only o ne ph a se of the question and the ,
other is much harder to describe a nd probably ,
m o re imp o rtant v iz the texture I t will al

, .
, .
m ost always be found that the I nne r Aura

will be seen to be m o re distinctly m a rked and
broade r in pe rsons Of b oth sexes w ho a re nat
ura l l y robust and in good h e alth but is more ,
fain t in weakly subjects showing that it is the

,
b odily and not th e m e ntal p owe rs which are

the chief e nergisers Of this p o rtion of the Aura .
A s is reasonable t o suppose t he O uter Aura

,
of me n has a c o arse r grain than that of women ;

but afte r all owing for this fineness a nd trans
, ,
p ar e n c y may b e c o n sider e d a high e r t ype than

c o arse ness and dullness La ter on it will be
.
sh own th at t h e m o re grey there is in the col our

of the Aura the more dull o r mentall y a ff ected
,
is th e owner .
T HE AUR A OF H EALT H Y PE RSONS 65
Education is a factor which oug ht theo re ti

,
ca lly to have an imme nse in fluence o n t he Aura

,
by its refining influe nce ; but t h e cha n ges in

duced by it are s o de licate as t o be imp e rcep ~
tible by our presen t means of examination .
N eve rtheless it i s e xtremely probabl e that it

,
has produced a congenital eff ect through hered

ity.
The influence of h e re d ity a n d tempera ment

upon the Aura is o n e of t h e m ost fascinating
parts of this subj e ct and at t h e same tim e it
,
doe s not require a p rophe t to foresee that a n

inqui rer I n this direction is like ly to re ap a rich
C HAPT ER II
TH E ET H E RIC DO UBLE
IT is now time t o turn our attention to the

subject of the structure of the Aura T here is .
n o do ubt about its be ing a c omposite phenom

enon T here are three divisions of the Aura
.
,
n ot including t h e rather supp osititious Ultra

Aura mentioned a little late r on which are ,
t h e subjects of our inve stig a tions T hey will .
be calle d the E ther ic Double t h e I nner A ur a

, ,
the Outer A ur a .
T h e E T H E RI C DOUBLE I mmed i atel y the

.
Aura w as observed o ne prominent feature at

,
tracted attenti on which at first w as rega rded

,
as a n optical illusi on but on further inve sti

,
g a t io n prov e d t o be a reality T h e E theric

.
D o ubl e as se en thro ugh vari ous scre ens is a

, ,
da rk band adjace nt to an d following exactly

,
t h e cont o ur of t h e b o d y s e parating the l a tter

,
from the cloud o r true Aura I t is as a rule .

, ,
from one t o th ree -sixteenths of an inch in width ,
66
whi l e the green oblitera tes the whole of the
spect rum except the pa rt lying a little below D
to about half w ay be tween F a nd G The .
yellow screen cuts o ff t he blue and violet .
T hese results were obtain e d b y me a ns of a sm a l l

pocket spectroscope and a re only roughly but
, ,
yet sufficiently accurate for our purpose .
Fo r the following experiments any p art of

the body c a n be utilized but perh aps the most
,
c onvenient p art is the arm or h and as the ,
investiga tion is necessarily a prolonged one ,
l onger th a n a p atient will care to rem a in un

c overed As soon as the patient h a s been a r
.
ra nged in a good position it will be advisable

,
fo r the observer to look at the light through

a d a rk Sp ect auran ine screen for a minute s o ,
that if possible h e ma y perceive the Aura

’
, ,
without the inte rvention of a light screen T he .
in ability of seeing t he Aura with out using

a light screen d oes not e ntirel y de b a r t he
obse rv e r from performing the following expe
r ime n t s ; but he must no t expect to see the
details to the s a me e xtent as if he were a ble
to work without a Scree n Of cou rse fo r these
.
,
ex pe riments it will be necessa ry to choose a

'
T H E ET H E I RC D O UBL E 69
subject whose Etheric Double is as well m arked

as possible ; but when once they have been
performed repetition will no t be required as
, ,
it does not appear that an y practicable benefit

can be de rived from the m during the inspection
of a patie nt .
E X PE RI M E N T 1 — L et the observer inspect the

.
a rm and hand of a patient he ld in fron t of a

black background through a blue screen He
, .
will see the Ethe ric D ouble has a d ark band

with out any striation o r granule s a djacent to ,
the b ody and quite distinct from the Aura

proper .
EX PE RI M E N T 2 Replace the bl ack b ack

.
ground by a white o ne and re gulate the light

,
accurate ly whe n the Ethe ric Double will ap

,
pear as a dark lin e .
EX PE RI M E N T 3 — Emp loy a green inste a d of

.
a blue scree n Against th e black backgro und

.
t he Ethe ric D o uble will be see n as a dark line ,
but not so cle arly as wh en the blue scree n was

e mpl oye d. T he Aura is also visible but not so ,
distin ctly.
EX PE RI M E N T 4 — When the sam e scree ns a re

.
used with the p atient s a rm before a white

’
b ackground the E th e ric Double is d a rk in a
,
subdued light .
E XPE RI M E N T 5 —I f th e yell ow screen be em

.
~
pl oyed th e Etheric D ouble still re m a ins d a rk

,
either aga inst a bl ack o r a white background .
E XPE RI M E N T 6 — Frequently when examined

.
,
through a dark red screen the Ethe ric D ouble ,
will remain as a da rk band round the body ,
similar to but more m a rked th a n when screens

,
of other colours are used O ccasiona l ly it will

.
appear instead of a dark void space finel y

, ,
granular with a tendency to striation Even .
when linea te d the appeara nce between it and

the I nner Aura ( to be de scribed I n t he next
ch apter ) is very unlike both in texture and
,
colour.
E X PE RI M E N T 7 — When the Etheric Double

.
is inspected aga inst a white b ackground

through a dark c a rmine screen it will retain its ,
dark h ue T hrough a light ca rmine scree n with

.
a properly a djuste d light it will be come rose ,
col our quite distinct fro m th e carmine shade

,
the white background has taken Whe n care .
fully examme d it will appe ar fin el y lineated

, ,
and the striw are the col oured p a rt .

T H E ET H E R I C D O UBL E 71
Th e of coloure d scre e n s h as bee n found

use
absolute ly requisite fo r the dete ction of ce rtain

con stitue nts as we ll as fo r t h e e luci dation of
,
some of t he attribute s of th e Aura ; s o a few

wo rds about th e ir action up on diffe rent col ours
will not be out of p lace alth ou g h at first si g ht
,
the y may appe ar e le me ntary S in ce all col ours .
be have S imilarly r ed alone will be conside re d in

,
detail .
1 st Upon l ooking th rough a dark red scre e n

.
all white objects will appe ar re d red O bj e cts ,
become li g hter in shade and all oth e r col ours ,
se em d arke r T his can be cle arly see n if in

.
,
ordinary dayli ght a piece of white and a pie ce

of black p ape r be placed S ide by side an d upon ,
th e m be laid a strip of red p ape r of a m oderate

S had e half o n t h e o n e and h alf on t h e o th e r
, .
When th e y a e e xamine d through a dark e d

r r
scre e n t he red pape r will be foun d to have l ost

,
ne arly all its c ol our and th e con trast be twee n

,
it and t he black p ape r will be i ncre ase d while ,
it will app roximate to the colour of t he white

pape r .
2 d K e ep t h e pap e r in the sa me po siti o n

.
,
a n d View th e m thro u g h the light red scree n .

T he red p aper will then h ave a darker tint bII t ,
'
the contrast between it a nd the white p ape r will

rem a in una ltered e ach h aving ga ined more red
,
colour in the s a me proporti o n T heoretic a ll y

.
,
t h e red p a per ought to S h ow out m o re against
t h e bl a ck but the result depends up on the

,
purity of the bl ack S hould h owever the red

.
, ,
pape r h ave a very d a rk S hade the contrast ,
be tween it and the black paper wi ll re main

un a ltere d while that between t he red and the
,
white papers will be le ssened The re ason is .
obvi ous when we recollect that while daylight

,
is composed Of a ll the colours of the visible s olar

spectrum a n object appears white when it re
,
fl e ct s the whole of these c o l o urs equally but ,
becomes coloured when it reflects only a certain

portion of the Spectrum absorbing the rem a in
,
der .
I n t h e majori t y of c a se s t h e object is only

capable of absorbing a limited quantity of light ,
so th a t it reflects with its own col oured ra ys

, ,
more or less white li g ht T he shade of the

.
colour depends upon t he proportion of these

col oured rays to the white mixed with them and ,
is rea ll y a quantitative expression I f the white .

T H E ET H E R I C D O UBL E 73
light which is being re flected by the coloured

object h as those rays th at a re simila r to the
, ,
ones absorbed by the object abstracted by any ,
method then the object will have a darker hue

, .
This is what is effected b y using a coloure d

screen .
A S d a ylight is l imite d in qu a ntity a d a rk red ,
screen will absorb the whole of it with the ex ,
cep t io n of the re d rays which are transmitted
through it to the eyes T hese rays are also .
limited in quantity I n the above experiment

.
the white pape r re flects practically all the day

light falling upon it the refore it must also
,
re flect the red rays T hese are the only rays

.
not absorbe d by the red screen therefore th e ,
white paper when seen through the red screen

, ,
must appea r as inte nse a red as possible The .
re d p aper ,if not too d a rk re flects red rays, ,
mixed with a large proportion of othe rs which ,
are absorbed by the red screen The m ain dif .
ference betwee n the action of the red and the

white p apers as seen through the red screen is
,
that the former absorbs a p ortion of the white

light which had it been reflected (as it is by
,
th e white paper ) wou ld h ave been absorbed b y

,
th e screen thus causing the re d a nd white p a pers
,
to appe ar alike When a light red screen re

.
places the dark one all the red rays will be

,
transmitte d with the addition of a l a rge quan

tity of oth e r rays of t he spectrum so th a t the ,
re d pa p e r will have its colour deepened by being
see n through this scre en I t is nece ssary to bear

.
in mind that this light red scree n will act in

precise ly t he same manner in a dim light as th e
dark o ne does in t he bright T his fact must be.
re m e mbere d whilst ch oosin g scree ns for the in

t e n s ificat io n of t h e Aura When these exp e ri “
m e nts are repe ated th e re sult may possibly n o t

,
be e xactly t h e sam e as stated on account of ,
diff e re n t shade s be ing use d a n d of the purity of

t h e c o l o urs toge ther with t h e quantit y of t h e
light e mploye d but t he principle will re main

, .
O n e other experiment is required Look at .
a red hot coal e ither in the dark or in the light

, ,
through a re d screen of any sh ade it will be ,
see n that the red colour of the coa l will be in

t e n s ifie d as it is s e lf -luminous a nd thus col o ur
,
is added to colour by a bsorption of the emitted

white light As h as a lready been noticed a ll
.
,
c olours with the e xception of red will a ppea r

, ,
ordin a ry circumstances it is imperceptible
, .
T h e gr a nular appeara nce mentioned in Ex ,
p e r im e n t 6 , is evid e n tly d ue to impe rfect d if

fe re nt iat io n the surroundings n o t be ing quite
,
favourable as w e have ne ver been a ble to dete ct

,
th e m a gainst a white background .
Up t o the present tim e no attributes o r ,
change s in the E the ric Do uble h ave be e n found

which are in any way likely to be a help in
diagnosis T his being so together with the fre
.
,
quen t difficulty of its de te ction w e consider that,
t h e time that must of necessity be Spent upon
its diffe re ntiation will be m o re useful ly e m

pl oye d in other ways a s the patie nt will nat
,
ur a ll y obj e ct t o his inspection being prolonged

be yond cert a in limits .
C HAPT ER I II
TH E I N N E R A N D O UT E R A URAS
THE Aura proper will be found l ying just out

side the Etheric Double Fo r some time w e we re
.
oblige d to consider it to be indivisible although ,
t h e part nearest t h e b ody was manifestly m o re
dens e and had a different te xture from that

further o ff ; neverthe l ess t he one appe are d to
,
sha de Into t he other too gradually to be treated

sepa rate ly Afte r expe rimen tin g for some time
.
,
w e have foun d it po ssibl e t o d ivide the Aura
into two distin ct divisi ons by m e ans of diff e ren t

,
scree ns othe r than th ose con taining spect au

ran ine T hese parts are t h e I nne r and th e
.
O uter Auras . T h e n ew scre ens have made a
g r eat a dd iti o n t o o u r knowl e d ge by o p e n ing

up a new fie ld of O bse rvati on in dise ase a n d by ,
affo rdn an expl anati on of seve ral phe nome na

which were p re viously i n explicable .
T he m ost useful sc re e n be sid e s t he o rdina ry

,
spect aur a n ine o ne s a re A

, a dark carmine B
, , ,
77
78 T HE HU MAN AT M OS PH E R E
a lig ht carmine an d C a pale blue (methyl
, ,
blue ) T h ey a re e spe cially valuable to t h e o h

.
server w h o has gaine d th e p owe r of se eing the

, .
Aura with out t h e inte rve ntion of any spect au

ranine screen After th e patie nt has been in
.
v est ig at e d in t h e us u a l mann e r his Aura may ,
be e xamine d t hro ugh C B y its m e ans th e two

.
Auras m ay be cl e arly se parated : t he I nner will

appear m o re de nse and ge ne rally m o re g ran u
lar having its oute r margin defin e d but its
, ,
g e n e ral struct u re har d ly di ff e re n tiat e d T h e .
O ute r Aura st a nds o ut clearly and its distal

‘
bo rder can be distinguished with to lerable ac

curacy S o that its siz e an d S hape can be noted
, .
N ext the scree n B may be e mpl o ye d when t h e

, ,
O uter Aura will be diminish e d o r entire ly o b

literate d acco rding t o the amoun t of light
,
admitte d and t h e tint of the scree n .
T h e se facto rs o ught t o be s o arranged that

t h e tw o Auras may be visibl e in o rder th a t the ,
width of the I nner Aura as seen through the ,
scre e n C may be c o rroborated

, .
At this stage t he structure of the I nner Aura

can sometimes be disce rned but generally on ly ,
indistinctly The last step is t o View t he Aura

.
T H E IN N E R A ND O UT E R AURAS 79
through t he dark carmine scree n A whe n it ,
will be nece ssary to admit much more light .
I t might fairly be c on j ectu re d that the scree n

A cuts off s o me of t h e I nn e r Aura in additi o n ,
to the wh o le of t he O uter Aura Howeve r it .

,
h as be e n fo un d afte r re p eate d trials that such

, ,
doe s not see m to be th e case if t he ligh t has

be en prope rly re gulate d ; an d it is e spe cially to
avoid this e rro r that t h e bre a dth of the I nner
Aura has been p revi ously de termine d by t he
screen s B an d C T he I nn e r Aura as seen
.
,
through the dark carmin e scre en is usually two

,
to four inche s in width according t o the a ge

,
a n d i n dividuality of t h e pati e nt b e ing p e rhaps

,
re l ative ly wide r alth ough in re ality narrower

, ,
in a child tha n in a n adult .
I n h e alth t h e b o un daries are distinguished

by the distance t o which the strim reach as can ,
be see n thro ugh t h e carmi n e scree n As a rule

.
,
the bre adth is practically e qual ove r the he ad

an d trunk , be in g some tim es but n ot always
, ,
slightly n arrowe r down t he limbs O ccasion .
ally both in males and in fe m ales the Aura will

, ,
be come m o re coarse and wider locally ; but as ,
line ation can be made out alth oug h it may be

,
Wi th difficulty there c an be no doubt of the
,
increase of breadth T his is quite differe nt to

.
what take s place in l ocal disturb ances T he .
m ost common position fo r this e nl a rgement is

by the waist as a woman faces the observer ,
a n d the next is the small of the back in men ;
but whe n a granular appe arance is seen here in

,
women it is gene rally p ath o lo gl cal and will

, ,
be described later on I n t h e latte r sex there

.
is Ofte n an incre ase in fron t of the breast and

abdomen which will be explaine d in the chap
,
t e r d e voted t o pre gnancy .
A S a rule the I nne r Aura follows t h e c ontour

of th e body having its proximate borde r in jux
,
t ap os it io n t o t h e E theric D ouble or often ap ,
p ar e n t l y t o t h e bod y itself T h e o ut e r.margin

is fre e and irregularly cre n ated with large
curve s T h e structure is O bvi ousl y g ranular
.
,
but the gra n ul e s are so a rranged as t o l oo k

st riate d a n d are exce edingly fine The striae
, .
are paralle l to one an oth e r running at right ,
a n gle s t o th e b ody but h ave neve r be en see n to

,
posse ss any i n trinsic colour T hey app e a r t o be

.
co llecte d into bundles having th e l onge st ones

,
in th e centre an d th e shortest on the outside ,

T H E I NNE R A ND O U TER AURAS
with a rounded margin The marginal bundles.
are massed together and the ir shape causes t he

,
cre nated outline s I n some case s the striate d

.
appe a ra nce is seen with out the slightest diffi

culty while in others it can only be detected
,
by a careful arrange me nt of t h e li ght an d t he ,
ch oice of a suitable screen With care t h e linea.
tion can always be ma de app aren t whe n th e

patient is in good h e alth but in ill he alth it ,
is otherwis e .
Whe n e ve r this Aura e ncroache s up on th e

Etheric D o ubl e it will alm ost oblite rate it ;
,
a n d t his fa ct again fo rc e s up o n us t h e qu e sti o n ,
whether its granule s a re not always in the E th e

ric Double notwithstanding the ir in visibility
, ,
or whether they are driven by some fo rce e ma

nating from the b ody to s om e distance S O as to ,
leave the Etheric Double fre e from an y gra n

ules an d the refo re quite transpare n t I n th e
, .
latte r part of the previous chapter this question ,
w a s considere d when t he pati e nt wa s in go od
health ; and th e conclusion a rrived at was, that

th e E th e ric D o ubl e do e s n o t c o n tain any mate ri
al. I l l h e alth h owe ve r alte rs t h e c on d iti o n s

, , ,
a n d it s e e ms t o be hi g hly pr o bable that t h e n t h e

granular su bsta nce of the I nn e r Aura does in
vade the Etheri c D ouble T his will be dis .
cussed he reafter .
T h e O ute r Aura comm e nc e s wh e re the I n ner

leaves o ff a n d spre a ds roun d t he body to a
,
variable distance I t has n o absolutely sha rp

.
outline but gradually van ish e s in t o space al

, ,
th ough it is as a rule sufficie n tly de fine d fo r

, ,
m e asurem e nt T his statement is howeve r

.
, ,
hardl y c o rre ct b ecause O ccas I On all y unde r ve ry

, ,
favourable circumstances an e xceedingly faint ,
haze can be see n e xte n din g o utw ai ds a ve ry ‘
long distance which give s the imp ression that

,
w e a r e awar e of its pre se n c e but are n o t quite ,
able to distin guish it T his ve ry e lusive por

.
tion of t h e Aura is m ost probably a continua

tion of the O ute r Aura ; beca use o n all occasion s ,
in which it has b e e n n o tic e d t h e p e riphery of ,
t h e O uter Aura has b e e n more i n d e finite than
usual I t has only been n oticed wh e n the

.
patient has an un usually e xte nsive Aura but ,
may simp ly be an ordin ary comp one n t which

is too de licate to be Ofte n se en For the sake .
of refe rence alon e w e have calle d it the Ul tr a

,
O ute r A ur a .
T he first group of rays cons ists of p atches
lighter th an the surrounding Aura but envel ,
oped by it T hey a re a lways seen to be in close

.
proximity to the body but not quite touching

,
it I n their m ost common fo rm they are elon

.
gated with t he long axis ru n ning p a ra llel

,
to the body T heir sides c an usually be seen

.
quite distinctly but their e nds often fade grad

,
ua lly into the adjacent Aura For the most .
pa rt when present they rem a in visible during

,
the whole of the observation but occasionally ,
th e y suddenly va nish Ha d it not been for this

.
l a tter property these patches would have been

,
more approp ri a tel y placed under the heading of

alte ra tions Of the I nner Aura For a l ong time
.
the origin of these p atches w as a gre at puz zle ;

but directly t he O uter a nd the I nne r Auras
co uld be m ade out as distinct phenomena one ,
p o rtion of th e difficulty disappeared as these ,
patch e s were found to lie e ntirel y within the

I nne r Aura and th rough their wh o le len g th
,
have their m a rgins a s a rule exactl y coincident

, ,
with those of the I nner Aura while their ends ,
a r e usually contr a cted and bec o m e less bright .
T h e e xplanati o n of t h e insularity of these

T H E I NN E R A N D O UT E R AURAS 85
patches is that they are me re ly alterations of

, .
the I nner Aura being bounded on the p roxi

,
m ate b o rde r by t he Etheric Double and on th e ,
dista l by t he O uter Aura When ex amine d .
through the dark ca rmine scree n A this porti on

of the I nne r Aura seems e ntirely to h ave lost its
striated appe a ra nce a nd in ste a d looks granular
, .
T he granule s of which it is c omposed are in ,
some instances much coa rse r than in othe rs ;

,
a nd t he brightne ss is Often comme nsurate with

the ir size When the p a tch is e vanescen t t he
.
,
granules a e commonly fin e ; and as the p atch

r ,
becomes more lasting the ten de n cy of t h e ,
granule s is towards coarse ne ss A S the se g ran .
ules m ust be referred to whe n c onside ring t he .
Aura in dise ase it will be convenien t to divide

,
them in to fin e medium an d coar se

, , .
Persiste nce of these patches during t h e wh o l e

of t he observation is ce rtainly p r ima f acie ev i
, ,
d e nce of their having a prolonged e xistence ;

and , then th e y a re mo re Often than n ot t he
,
sign of some local disturbance .
Until quite recently n o striae Of any ki n d

had bee n pe rce ive d in th e m ; but in Case 4 0 th e , ,
Aura of a pre g na n t woman Whose foetus was

dea d sh owe d in an un questionable manner the
, ,
physi o logic a lly fin e striae in front of t h e whole

ste rnum ; whil e ove r th e uppe r part of the dis
te nded abdom e n t h e I n ner Aura w as c oarsely
lineate d and the lowe r half had a comm on
,
pathological granul a r app e arance all these vari

,
at io n s being visible at t h e sam e time T hese .
p atch e s ne ve r see m to be c ol oured .
T he rays of the second gro up are p e rhaps , ,
the most brilliant of all and can be obse rved

,
eman ating from any part of the body running ,
to any other provide d that the tw o parts be

,
“
su fficiently ne ar e ach other a n d t he angle

be twe e n them be not too g re at For e xample
.
,
wh e n the arm 1 s h e ld away from th e body one ,
o r more rays m a y c onne ct th e m H e re the y .
see m to proce ed from the body towards th e arm ,
rather than th e reverse way because t he rays

,
ar e ge ne ra l l y perpe ndicular t o the body and

t a ke a diff e rent a ngle to t he arm An other .
good example is o btainabl e wh e n the patie nt

stands with his hands on his hips and his e lbows
outwards a ray appe ars from the axilla to the
—
wrist A similar eff e ct can be obtained if the

.
obse rver h o lds his hand at a sh o rt distance from

unde r extrane ous influe nces th e y may be de
fl ected and proceed at any a ngl e from the body ,
but in n o insta nce have w e seen them cu rve .
I t is ve ry e a sy to watch this phen o m e non as ,
rays emanating from the tips will appear as a

c ontinuati on of the fingers as l ong as th e re is no
attractive substance n e ar B ut if anoth e r h and
.
is h e ld about six or e ight inches away and

moved about all the rays procee dn from one
,
to t he other will be in s tra ight lines although ,
fro m t h e move me nt the angles between them

and t h e hands will be constan tl y altering but ,
there wi ll neve r be the slightest S ign of any

bend .
An ex actly S imilar c ondition can be produced

if the O bserver holds his hand ne ar a ray given
o ff from an y pa rt of the patient s bod y Th e
’
.
size of th e ra y va rie s much and is dependent

, ,
to a l a rge e xtent upon its position For ex

, .
ample rays proceedi ng from th e shoulde rs are

,
alm ost always broad whilst those emitted

,
fro m the fin ge r-tips rarely e xce ed one and a

half diameters of the digits Although rays
.
have been see n eman ating from every p art of

the bod y when the p a tient has been sta nding
,
T HE I NNE R A N D O UT E R AURAS 89
in favourable p ositions for their pe rcepti on y et , ,
non e have e ver be en n oticed proceeding directly

from h im towards the obse rver T his is s e .
counte d fo r by the extreme transp a rency of the

rays makin g the ir visibility depende nt upo n a
—
suitable background fl esh colour is a very p oo r
backgroun d owing to t he wan t of contrast
while the di fficulty of see ing the m is further
increased by th e ir be ing foresh ortened O n the .
other hand the ordina ry black background is

,
ve ry eflicie nt ; fo r whe n the rays a re silhouetted

,
agains t it the y a re m ade as distinct as pos

,
sible Eve n th ough the rays proceeding di

.
“
rect l y from t he patie nt to the observe r are

in visible y et they make the ir presence known
,
by fre que ntly causing an alteration on the com

p l e m e n t ary coloured b a nd as will be
, described
in a later chapte r .
B esides the o rdina ry bluish g rey colour red ,
and yellow have been notice d tinge ing the rays ,
s o th at it is not at all improbable that t h e rays

m ay p ossess all the c ol ours of t he spectrum .
T hey have one strikin g peculiarity n a mely : ,
that in n o instance h ave the ra ys been seen

to d iminish the adjacent O uter Aura either ,
90 THE H UMAN AT M OS PH E R E
in density o r in brightn e ss s o that th e y c an ,
hardly be c on sidere d to arise from th at Aura .
A S th e ir structure res e mbl e s th at of t h e I n ner

Au ra t h e con clusi on is fo rced up on us that the
,
two have a c omm on o rigin v iz t h e Bo dy , .

,
in short that a ray is o nly a l e n gth e ne d o ut

,
fasciculus of t h e I nn e r Aura (p age

T h e Aura has b e e n s e arch e d fo r c o n sta n tly in
the dark without the slighte st S ign of its be in g
obse rvable proving that it is not lumin ous to
,
t h e ordinary p e rc e p ti o n Visibility is de rive d

.
,
a s in othe r n o n lumino us b odi e s fro m t h e re

-
,
fl e ct io n of li g ht fro m s o m e e xtra n e o us s o u rce ,
the b e st re sults be in g obtain e d from diff used

d aylight g raduate d to th e prope r e xte n t I t .
has bee n our e nde avour but with o ut m uch ,
success t o asce rtain wh e th e r o n e part of the

,
spectrum showe d th e Aura m o re plain ly than

an oth e r I t can be seen throug h re d ye llow
.
, ,
gree n and bl ue scree n s to d iffe rent exte nts

, ,
varyi n g of c ou rse with th e ir depth of colour

, , .
O n e very valuabl e det a il h oweve r bec o mes , ,
m o re appare n t wh e n t h e red scree n (page 7 7 )

is e mpl oyed viz t h e stri ae of t h e I nne r Aura
, .
,
.
.
An oth e r e ffect of th e same scre en is that it

from the body and warmed would rise in the
,
cooler air T he only conditi ons th at c ould pos

.
sibl y make it stationary ( if it we re a vapour )

would be similar ones to those governing the
cloud b a nner seen on th e mountain peaks whe re
the e xact amount of vapour is generated as is
lo st b y diff usion a nd e vaporation I n the latter
.
case any change of t he wind will alter the shape

of the cl oud but n o amount of draught o r
,
m ove ment of the body changes in any w ay the

Auric cloud I ts structure is so delicate ly fin e
.
that comparing it to an o rdinary mist; would

,
be a nalogo us to t h e comparison of the finest

cambric to c oarsest canvas .
Wh e n all t he different aspects of t h e Aura

ar e considere d n o o th e r conclusion seems p o s
,
sible except one of the following two : T he

,
fir st is a m ost improbable theory so improbable

,
that it would not have been mentione d had w e

“
not found hints of it viz , that th e Aura
is an inte gral part of the cove ri n g of t h e b od y
,
which may be l ooked up on in t h e sam e light

as the S kin I f this we re so e ve ry time an y
.
thing touch e d th e b ody th e Aura would be

compressed o r force d asun de r and immedi ate ly
close up a gain and it could h ave n o protective

,
influence up on the body ; neither has it so far ,
as w e can discove r Be side s it would be diffi

.
,
cult to imagine how the rays so often se en in

t he Aura could p ossibly be g ene rated in it o r ,
what would be the ir use .
T h e se cond th e ory most probab ly the correct

,
interpretati on of the Aura is that it consists of ,
“
a force emanating from the body which like , ,
all fo rce s is invisible in itself but which be

, ,
come s pe rceptible by me ans of its action on t he

Eth e r o r Atmosph e re
, Whe the r th is suppo
.
s it io n is true o r n o t it ce rtainl y d e se rves care fu l

,
considerati on .
Th e first question which n atura l ly arises is ,
whether the re are any other in stance s of force

proceeding from substance s making themselve s
visible in the surrounding medium in the fo rm
of a haze ' I t is by n o me ans n ece ssary that
th e fo rc e sh o ul d be exactly similar t o t h e o n e
issuing from t he bo dy Fo rtunately M agn e t .
,
ism Ra di o activity an d E le ctricity (whe th e r

,
-
,
static o r from the pole s of an ope n galva n ic

ce ll ) will su p ply three differe n t ki n ds of fo rc e ,
all p rod ucin g a n al ogous re sults ; an d the y c n a

be see n under c on ditions similar to those that
make t h e h uman Au ra visible .
I t is by n o m e a n s as e asy t o s ee t h e M ag ne tic
Cloud as t h e H uman Aura I n o r de r t o O btain
.
the be st results care must be take n in the se le c

,
ti on of t he backgroun d which must be pe rfe ct

,
ly smo o th and black T h e illuminati o n o ught

.
to be diff used an d at th e sam e time it is be tte r

,
n o t to plac e t h e magn e t o pposite t h e source of
li g ht I t mi g ht re asonably be expecte d that

.
t h e visibl e cl o ud w o uld e xactly fo ll ow t h e mag
netic line s Of fo rce ; but as far as has been se en

,
at present such is not t h e case alth oug h ve ry

, ,
likely t he discre pancy between t h e two will

vanish directly t h e haze can be more clearly
pe rceive d .
Befo re comme ncing an observation the ex ,
p e r im e n t a l is t will find it advant a g e o us t o l o ok

at the li g ht through a dark sp ect aura n ine screen
quite d ouble t h e time he is in t h e habit Of
d oing before the examin ati on of t h e h uman
Aura ; subse quently n o chan g e of p roce d ure is
,
re quisite T h e magn e ts use d we re a six inch

.
h o rs e sh oe that had l ost a larg e po rti on of its

powe r an d an e ight in ch bar ma g n e t that had
,
in the s a me m anner the cloud will be see n
,
surrounding its length but becoming b roader

,
a nd denser as it approaches the poles The .
rays projecte d from one pole a re uninfl uenced

by those from the other pole a s these a re a s far
,
from e ach other a s is possible a nd thus allow 1ng

their arrangement to be accurately O bserved .
I t will n ow be seen th a t the r ays coming o ff

fro m the south pole a re a lmost st ra ight while ,
those emitted from the north pole a re distinctly

fan sh a ped app a rentl y bec a use the r ays given
-
,
o ff f rom the sh arp edges of the e n ds a re a t a

‘
different a ngl e from those proceeding from the

plain surface S uppose a tin tack be placed
.
p oint outwa rds on the pole of a m a gnet th e ,
mist will be brighter by the S ide of the na il

and will c oncentrate at the point The colour .
of the m a gnetic cloud is bluish and ca n be ,
intensified by the interventi on of a very light

blue screen free from any grey .
When a radi o -active irregul a r cryst a l Of Ura

nium Nitrate which measured o ne inch in
,
length a nd half in bre adth at the widest p art ,
w as Vl eW C d in the s a me way as has just been

described fo r a m a gnet a haze was seen sur
,
rounding it The haze w as more concentrate d

. .
at the smaller e n d T he col our was ye llow and

.
m ore cle arly seen through a light ye llow screen ,
while a blue o ne lessen e d o r o bliterate d it ac

co rding to the depth of co lour I t is very .
inte restin g to note that when th e crysta l w as

placed near a magn e t the re w as a mutua l at ,
traction Of t he cl ouds surrounding the two

bo dies e ach of which seemed t o h ave e xtende d
,
further than the y did when apart Moreove r .

,
t he t wo h a zes could be see n ( quite e a sily owing
to their diff erent colours ) to inte rpe ne trate o ne

a nother fo r a short distance and the n we re ,
gradually lost as sepa rate colours Whethe r .
th is is due to the ir intrinsic hues becomin g too

faint for perce ption o r whe ther the y absolute ly
,
blend w e have bee n unable to dete rmin e

, .
As every o n e is conve rsant with the luminous

cl oud around t he p oin t of an e lectrifie d body it ,
will be quite unn ecessary t o s ay an ything ab out

it a s it has no c onnection with t he p resen t
,
subject H owe ve r t h e p ole s Of a galva nic ce ll

.
, ,
when disc on n ected a re in a similar static state

, ,
but m ost pe ople can not disti n guish any haze

a round them T his will be c ome visible whe n
.
e xa mined in th e s a me manner as the magnetic
cloud As might be e xpected the haze sur
.
rounds an y conducto r which j oins t he two pole s .
If a piec e of wire be connected with t h e zinc

element and another piece with the ca rbon of a
,
cell a nd these two wires a re arrange d s o that

,
they shall be para llel with e ach other and a bout

two inches apart the whole inte rvening sp ace
,
will becom e ne bul ous .
S uppose now a ,n o n -conductor be pl aced be

,
tween them the cloud will no longe r be so dif

,
fuse but will c oncentrate around the tw o wires

, .
T h e ga lva nic haze is bluish intensified b y a ,
light blue screen I t is much coa rser in gra in

.
th an the haze from the U ranium N itrate crys

tal which in its turn is not ne arly s o fin e as
,
the magnetic aure ole I t would be out of.
place t o recount any more experiments as suffi ,
cie nt h ave been quoted fo r t h e purpose of prov

in g that a ha z e e xists aro un d som e objects ,
—
in which there resides an e ne rgy latent to our
—
usual p e rcepti on which energy h owever can , , ,
under favourable conditi ons be se en to re act

,
upon t h e surrounding medium I n the case of .
magnetism the fo rce is supp lied according to ,

1 00 T HE HU MAN AT M OS PH ER E
be red fir s tly that the I nner Aura has a rudi
, ,
mentary structure being striated ; tha t its ,
borders are fairly we ll marked and als o that ,
ra ys proceed from it S econ dly the O uter Aura .

,
is entirely nebul o us with an ill defined outer ,
edge the visible proximate margin of which

,
c oincides with the distal border of the I nner

Aura ; and a gain th a t in n o case as yet h ave
, ,
ra ys been O bserved comme ncing in this one

p assing through to the other T his opinion is .
strengthened by the fact that the outer margin

Of the I nner Aur a is cren a ted showi n g that the ,
intensity of the force producing it is a little

vari a ble ; and the ordin a ry rays being due to a
,
gre ater display of the same fo rce it stands to ,
reason th a t if the O uter Aura were derived

,
from this one it too would have a ve ry irreg

, , ,
ul a r margin especi a ll y when proj ecting beyond

,
a ll the rays ; but such is not found to be the

case .
Another ci rcumsta nce p ointing to the sa me

conclusion is th at the O uter Aura becomes
much more developed in females from the age
of puberty upwards a ro und the body th an in , ,
males without any c o rrespo nding increase of

,
T H E I NNE R A ND O U T ER AURAS 1 01
the I nne r Aura We a re compelled to the c on

th at the re m
.
el usion ust be two forces o ne ,
which o riginates the I nne r Aura to be called ,
N o 1 A ur ic j b r ce o r for sh o rtness sake 1 A F ;

.
, , ,
another producin g the O ute r Aura to be ,
te rme d N o 2 A ur icf or ce abbreviated to 2 A F

.
, .
If however there be on ly o n e fo rce a nd the

, , ,
two Auras are on ly two manife stations of it ,
still for practical purposes it will be adv an

, ,
t ag e o us to treat the subject as if two fo rces
were present .
1 A F a cts apparentl y very intensely within
a prescribed area and is to a certain extent

, , ,
under the influence of th e will which can cause ,
a projection of the Aura as vis ible rays fo r

some perce ptible distance and very like ly much ,
furthe r th an is perceived Be sides rays are .

,
e vo lved unconsciously through the loc a l aug

,
mentation of the force T his affords a solution .
to the problem that greatly puzz led us whilst

e xperimenting with the m e ch a nic a l fo rces of
t h e N rays The difficulty then was that

.
sometime s a l a rge deflection of our instrum e n t

was obtained ; in fact often too large for me as
,
ure me nt e ven if the force had t o pass thro ugh

,
1 02 T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH E R E
a ll kinds of O bstacles ; at a nother time unde r ,
e xactl y the s a me ph ysic a l conditions the results ,
we re ne gative N ow it c a n be e asily unde r

.
,
stood that a deflection of th e needle took place

whenever o n e of these rays fe ll upon it ; a nd ,
wh e n there w as no ray the needle rem a ined ,
st ati onary
.
We ce ase d e xperimenting by this method ,
after having come t o t h e con clusi on that how ,
ever interesting the result might turn out to

be y e t th e re se emed to be n o prospect o f its
,
bein g useful fo r diagnostic purposes as w e h ad ,
at first h oped D irectly th e Aura could be see n

.
w e fe lt that better re sults could be O btained by
studyin g what w as visible t han by working ,
only o n t h e un see n .
2 A F is certainly m o re mobil e and has a wider ,
range of action tha n 1 A F ; and as far as has bee n ,
de te rmine d is en tire ly indepen de nt of the w ill

,
p owe r D iffere nt state s of health either gen

.
,
eral o r l ocal re act up on the fo rces and indi

, ,
“
r ect l y upon th e Auras altering th e m but n ot
, ,
n ec e ssarily in t he sam e manner Whe n the .
affecti o n is l ocal it is not at all uncommon for

,
a l l the stri ae to disappe a r from the I nner Aur a ,

1 04 T HE HUMAN AT MOS PH E R E
T he body as h as a lready been mentioned
, ,
has the power of generating Auric rays which , ,
as we ll as the Aura itself possesses the peculi a r ,
prope rty of b e ing formed or attracted b y out

side influences For example let the observer
.
,
h old his h and a sho rt dist ance from any part of

the patient s body he will fin d in a lmost every
’
insta nce a ra y will bec ome visible between his

hand a nd t h e patient s Usually a s the first ’
.
,
a lte ration observa ble the Auras of bo th persons

,
become brighte r locally and in a short t ime ,
a junction is effected pro ducmg a c omplete

ray .
I t is worth y of notice that these r a ys ca n be

m o re e a sily obta ined between p o ints than be
twee n large surfaces For instance if the .
,
obse rver holds o n e fin ger near the side of a

p a tient a ray will soon appe a r but it will cer
, ,
t a in l y be perc e ived sooner a nd more defin itel y
near the finge r th an nea r the body ; s ubse

quently the ray may o r m ay not become
equally bright throughout its whole length .
Aga in if the observer holds his finge r the same

,
distance from some pointed p art of the p atient s ’

.
body such as t h e nose chin bended elbow or

, , , ,
T HE I NN E R A N D OUTE R AURAS 1 05
fingers, he will notice th at the ra ys will be

m o re quickl y generated and frequently w ill ,
be brighte r T hus if we may use the expres

.
,
si on the Auric potential is greater at points

,
than ove r a flat s urface having in this re spect

,
a n anal o gy t o st a tic electricity .
Yet again if t h e O bserver holds a bare a rm

‘
paralle l to the patient s body the inte rve ning

’
Auras will be come brighter and frequently , ,
but n o t always blend showing th at a mutual

, ,
attractive force exists betwee n the two Auras .
I n all th e se c ases the distance between the

patient and the Observer should be sufficie nt
to allow o ne o r two inches between their visible
Auras I t is also extremely important that t h e
.
minds of the two pe rsons S h oul d be in as passive

a state as possible in order that the will may
,
n o t affect the Auras T his is a ve ry good p o int

.
at which to de m onstrate that the Aura is infl u

e nce d by t h e w ill p o we r T he observer can d o
.
S O by h o ldin g his fin ge r s o me furth e r distance
from the patient than in the previous experi

ments ; he must th e n w ill that a ray should
e xte n d fro m t h e e n d of his finger tow a rds the
patient T he ray will s oo n make its appe a r

.
1 06 T HE H U MAN AT M OS PH E R E
ance , and it will d isappe a r dire ctly he leaves
As t o H ow t h e spect aur an in e scree n e n a bles

t h e A u ra t o be s ee n ' I t is ve ry imp o rt a nt ,
if p ossible to s o lve t h e que sti on I ts s olution

, .
depe nds up on the c on stitution of t h e Aura the ,
part of t h e e y e m ost affe cte d in its perception ,
and lastly t h e acti on of t h e scree n upon this

, ,
p a rt T h e se m ust be con side re d in o rde r

. .
I t may be re garde d as an axi o m that if a n y

“
substance e mits a fo rce which produces in th e

adjace n t Eth e r vib rati on s corre spon ding in
,
numbe r an d in wave le n gth t o the un dula

tions of a n y part of the visible S pe ctrum this ,
substance is a uto lumin ous I t d o e s not

‘
- .
sign ify wh e th e r t h e fo rce is se lf ge nerate d as -

,
in a radi o active crystal o r wh e th e r the fo rce

-
,
has be e n acquire d e xtra n e ously as in t he c ase

,
of lumin ous S ulphi de of Calcium ; and of ,
c ourse th is statemen t h ol ds g ood if th is force

, ,
on ly prod uces undulation s wh ich are in visible

t o t h e o rdin ary but which may be see n by
,
pers on s gifte d with s ome pe culiar sight or by ,
oth e rs by me ans of I n strumental Aid .
“
Reich e nbach in his , Research e s upon Ma g
obse rved an unusu al ph e nomenon around a
m a gnet etc espec i a lly as these people a re nat
, .
,
ura l l y observ a nt on a ccount of the probability
that sight is their most deve l oped sense .
T his arg um e nt wo uld be fu rther strength

e n e d if it c o uld be shown th a t clairvoyants are
,
not above the ave rage in keenne ss of vision for

o rdinary perce ptio ns We asked a cl airvoyant
.
wheth e r the S ight of clairvoyants was for o rdi ,
n ary purpose s o nl y natural O r whethe r it w as

, ,
more kee n ' H e kindl y inf o rmed us th at the

gif te d S ight was in no w ay connected with t he
o rdin a ry ; and in fact som e clairvoya nts h ave
, ,
i nf erior e ye si g ht U nde r th e se circumsta nce s

.
w e may safe ly conclude that individuals who c a n
p e rce ive the human Aura and the haz e around

magne ts etc receive th e ir powe r not from
, .
keenne ss of sight but f rom a faculty to s ee rays

,
that are not included in the ordina rily visibl e

S p e ctrum .
I f this be n ot so in what then does this

,
powe r consist All our e xp e riments point to

'
the fact that it is n e ce ssary t o have only a

dim light in which to see the Aura This m ay .
be due partially t o t h e de licacy of t h e Aura ,

T H E INN E R AND O UT E R AURAS 1 09
whose presence is extinguished by a bright

light ; but the a ll -important factor is the eye
itse lf For this reason it will be obligatory to
.
conside r the dark adaptation alone All pe r .
ce pt io n s of light are due to se nsatio n s rec e ive d
th rough the medium of th e rods and cones Of

the re tina ; and for r easons unnecessary to give
,
here it is usua lly conside red that the m ost

,
eff ective action of t he cones takes place in a

bright light while the y are almost do rmant in
,
a dim o ne O n th e other han d the rods

.
,
are more se nsitive during fe e ble illumination .
Without going into th e p articulars of their ve ry

complicate d structure it will on ly be necessary
,
to say that this attribute is due probably to th e

Rhodopsin or visual purple which th e y al o ne
, ,
contain T his substance is de rived in some

.
incomprehe ns ible m anne r from the me lanin of

t h e pigmented cel ls of the re tina and is s o ,
unstable that light is con tinually alte ring its

chromatic qualities different parts of the Spec
,
trum aff ecting it une qually .
I t h as been found that t h e yellowish green

rays are the most active and the red the least
,
so Un der a g ree n li ght the Rhodopsin be

.
com e s purpl e vi ol e t and th e n c o lourl e ss A S
, , .
soon as t h e re tina has bec ome accustom e d t o t h e ‘
dim lig ht t h e re d e n d is l e ss appare n t while

, ,
t h e maxim u m int e nsity is re moved to t h e
gre e n and t h e bl ue e n d becomes bri ghte r

, .
T his corre sponds t o the chan g e s e e n in t h e

visual purple Wh e n the colour stim ulus is
.
S light in t h e dark adapte d state the O bj ect ,
has a gre y appe arance which gradu a lly be comes ,
coloure d I n o u r opinion it is the alteration of

.
the visual pu rple e ither in qu a ntity or qualit y

that e nables pe ople to see the Aura e tc , .
If t h e Aur a be observe d through a li g ht

sp ect aura n in e scre e n without any pr e vious pre p
aration of the eye s a n umbe r of pe ople w ill be

,
incapabl e of seeing anything while a se cond ,
group will perceive the Aura more or le ss dis

t inct l y If all these peopl e p e er fir St at t h e
.
light through a dark spectauran in e scree n for

a S hort tim e an d th e n at the Aura all will
, ,
be able t o se e it s o m e imm e diate ly a n d the re st

—
within a minute Of those obse rve rs w ho con

.
-
i
s t it ut e the second gr oup a few will be found ,
able afte r p ee ring through a d a rk screen at

,
t h e light t o distin g uish the Au ra without the

,
1 12 THE HU MAN AT M OS PH ER E
but the power returns a ga in in a ve ry sho rt
time T his points to the fact that the cumul a
.
tive acti o n is not quite perm a nent .
T h e above experiments S h ow th a t S pect au

ranine has s ome marked influence upon the
eyes T he onl y p a rt that conceiva bl y is likely
.
to be affected is the visua l purple a nd if this be ,
the case it must be either incre ased in qu a ntity

, ,
o r altered in quality Unfortunatel y the S pec

.
trum as seen by mea ns of a pocket S pectro

,
scope of t he spect auran in e does not assist us in

,
any w ay except th at it S hows the yellowish

,
green t o the brightest pa rt while the ora nge is

,
e ntirely a nd the yellow is to a gre a t ex tent o b
litera ted T h e red is unaltered a nd the blue

.
,
and vi o let slightl y diminished .
T h e following rem a rks a re c o mpletel y h ypo

th e tic a l and without proof but w e Off er them
,
in defa ult of a ny other expl a nati on and ask o ur ,
re ade rs kind fo rbea rance if they disa gree with

’
them We d o not think an increase in the

.
visual pu rple alone would be sufficient of itself

to a cc ount for the perception Of the Aura a l ,
though it is quite possible that there m ay be

some augment ati on in the visual pu rple I t is .
T H E I NN E R A ND O U TER AURAS 1 13
m o re p robable that th e re is some change in its

co nstitution which afte r a time by the contin
,
uo us use of t h e S p ect a ura n in e scree n bec o mes

,
fairly pe rmanent and th at this alte ration e n

,
ables a pe rson to appre h e nd rays a S hort dis

tance beyond the o rdina rily visible spectrum .
I t will be c o ncede d that this is n o t impossible

when it is reco llecte d that t he lave nder grey is
capable of bein g pe rceive d by some people
under favourable circumsta nces .
C HAPTER IV
COM PLE M E N TA RY CO LOURS
S OON after the discovery of the Aura a friend

,
c alled our a ttention to the fact th a t if a light

,
wa s ga zed at a nd the e yes turned first t o o ne

,
side a nd then to th e oth e r of any person the ,
colou rs of the spectre were Ofte n not the s am e .
After having convinced ourselves that this

peculi a rity did occur w e thought it might
,
be a help in diagnosis but for th at purpose

,
w e knew that t h e investig a tion by means of
complement a ry colou rs must be m ade meth

o d ica l
. We began by ga zing at a gaslight fo r
the employment of its c omp lementary col our ,
not that w e thought that such a crude meth od

would be s atisfacto ry but t o disc over its de
,
fects so that the y might guide us in our future

,
experiments We n oticed that the resulting

.
ph antom was not a sing le colour as the m a in

,
po rtion had one colour but was surrounded by

,
a nother quite different T he inconvenience Of

.
1 14
a re a dvanced fo r t h e want of be tter h ypotheses .
A s t h e subject is e ntirely dependent up o n col

o ur vision s o me prelim i na ry rem a rks are re
-
quired o n that process .
I t is a gener a ll y accepted fa ct th a t there a re

,
three sets of colour sensitive nerve s in th e eyes

-
,
and that a ll the colours perceived a rise from the

stimul a tion of one two or a ll of these sets of
,
nerves either sep a ra tely o r in conjunction

, .
When more th a n o ne set of nerves a re excited ,
th e y are usua lly une qu a ll y stimulated The .
true physiological prim a ry col o urs a re those

that can stimulate only o ne set of colour sensi -
tive ne rves simultaneously One method of .
ascertaining a person s own personal primary

’
colours is to press the closed eye when there

, ,
will usu a ll y be seen sm a ll yellow d ots all over

the field Of visi on I ntermingling with these
.
a re much larger discs of blue and lastly red

,
points inte rmedi ate in si z e between the yel low

and blue di scs T he yellow are the most nu
.
me ro us a nd the blue next in number .
When a ll the c olour sensitive nerve s are ex

-
cited equ a lly t he o bj e ct is called white but ,
wh e n u nequall y it is c oloure d We have fo r .

C OM PL E M ENTAR Y C OL OURS 117
man y ye ars c onside re d th at each pe rson p os

sesses his own primary col ou rs an d acc o rdingly ,
see s a col oured O bj ect diff ere n tly to a n y one else ,
but by m e ans of ed ucati on e very one c a lls the

colour by t he same name Fo r instance let two
.
pe rsons A and B look at a co l oure d object usu ,
ally de si g nate d as a shade of ye ll ow T his .
colour might o n ly stimulate o n e set of c ol our

sensitive n e rve s of A a n d would be to him a
,
pure ye llow O n th e other hand with B no t

.
,
me re ly mi ght th e ye ll ow sen sitive n erve s be-
excite d but to a slight e xten t the bl ue se nsitive

,
-
nerves ; he woul d see it as a gree n ish c ol our .
But as A and B have both be e n ta ught that the

c olour is a ce rtain shade of ye ll ow whene ve r ,
the y see it th e y will both call it by t he same

,
name Ne ve rth e le ss if A saw it with B s e yes

.
,
’
h e would imm e diate ly say it was a gree nish y e l

low whil e B l ooki n g through A s eyes wo uld
’
, , ,
g iv e it s o m e o ther n am e E ach w o ul
. d be c o r
rect I t fo ll ows as a c orollary th at every o n e
.
,
see s n ature in hues d iffere nt from what his

ne ighbour does I t is unn e ce ssary to e nter
.
more fully into th is th e ory but acco rd ing t o it

,
the writer s primary c ol ou rs are at the presen t

’
,
1 18 T HE H UMAN AT M OS PH E R E
time red yell ow and blue Twe nty ye ars a go
, , .
purple took th e place of blue We do n ot pro . .
p ose to c onsi der any other the o ries since this ,
one will do perfectly well for our purpose .
P utting a side for the tim e being all th e ories ,
it will be found that wh e n one set of c o lour

sens itive nerves is c o mple tel y fatigued the O b ,
server is fo r the time being c ol our-blind If the

, , .
red sensitive ne rves be the ones exhausted he

-
,
will be red blind a lthough he will be a ble t o per

-
,
ce iv e pe rfectl y a ll the c o l o urs that d o not con
tain red ; in addition h e will see any colour th a t

has a mixture of red a s the hue would be if a ll
,
the red colour were removed T aking a simple .
e xample pu rple would h a ve the app e a ra nce of

,
a shade of blue T his artificial c o l our blindness

.
causes the eyes t o become hyper sensitive t o all -
col ou rs and shades of c ol o urs th a t d o n ot con ,
tain red as red in an o rdin a ry w ay helps t o

,
O bscure a ver y faint tint of any c o lour The .
following experiment has bee n tried by severa l

peopl e and will furnish a proof When a band .
of light tinged ve ry fa intly with c a rmine is

, ,
thrown up on a white scree n from a m a gic

lantern it will have a ce rtain visibilit y ; but
,
scree n since his eye s have been
s pect a u ra n in e ,
made more se nsitive t o t h e e xtrem e limit of th e

spectrum a n d most probably e ve n t o Vibratio ns
,
lying beyond and totally invisible in an o rdi

nary w ay .
E ve ry one is aware that if he ga ze intentl y

for a S h ort time at a coloured o bj ect and th e n ,
look at a blank space he will see a spectre of th e

o bject S imil a r in shape but having a differe nt
,
hue T his sec ondary c o l our will always be the

.
sa me is dependent upon the h ue of the O bj e ct

, ,
“
and is te rm e d c omplementary to t h e re al o r
”
“
primary c ol our If fo r e xample a ye ll ow
”
.
, ,
O bject be g a zed at the c ol our of th e virtu a l

,
image will be blue th e e xact tint be in g de

,
t ermin ed b y the shade of the yell o w employed ,
and t o a cert a in extent by pe rsonal idiosy n

c ra s ies When the observer has l ooked suffi
.
cie n t l y long at the obj ect th e tim e va rying ,
acc o rding to the brightness of t he light and the

ste adfastne ss of his gaz e etc h e will alwa ys , .
,
perce ive at first the spectre t o h ave the s ame

hue but this gradu a ll y bec om e s lighter and
, ,
will m o re fre que n tly th a n n o t bec om e blended

with a ed ti n t turn i n g p urpl e o r plum col
r ,
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C O M PL EM ENTA R Y C O LO UR S 121
o ure d . the se cases it must be re membere d

In
that the compl emen tary col our always includes
a red tint although at first it is masked by
,
the I ntensity of the blue col our .
S h ould h owever the o bse rve r se e at first the

, ,
purple o r plum coloured tints on the phantom

-
,
h e may be sure his e yes have n ot been c om
p l e t e l y saturated by t h e o rigi n al y e ll o w c o l o ur
,
o r e lse that th e re is a l a rger amount of white

light present th an usua l T his S h ows h ow req
.
uisit e it is t o be conve rsant with all the vary
in g ti n ts that t h e sp e ctre undergoes .After a

short time th e phan tom w ill van ish and may
re turn with quite alte re d colours Fo r the .
present pu rp ose this se conda ry change may be

ne glecte d be cause th e use of th e comple men
,
ta ry colours is not continued l ong e n ough t o

produce it O n e othe r fact re m a ins to be bo rne
.
in mind namely ; that wh e n th e backgroun d is

,
not white the complementa ry colour will not

,
appea r in its pure S hade but as if bl en de d with

,
t h e tint of t h e background S i n ce t h e co mpl e

.
mentary col ours are e ntirely subjective th e y ,
will receive the names of the ne arest col ours

of paints that could be obtai n ed th e se be in g,
1 22 T HE HUMAN AT M OSPH E R E
accurate e nough fo r all practica l purposes A f .
t e r a large n umber of experiments had been
made with the colou rs w e ca ll our primary

on es w e came to th e conclusi on that these
,
d i d not give such good re sults as m i xed ones .
N um e ro us trials have shown the fo llowi n g c o l

ours to be the most useful
1 . G amb o ge havi n g a comple m e nta ry colour ,
P russian B lue .
An twe rp B lue , G amboge .
Carmine , T ranspare n t E m e rald G reen .
E m e rald G re e n , Carmine .
H owe ve r t h e I nve stigator must determine by

,
experiment what col our or col ours suit him be st .
I n actual pra ctice use is m a de of strips of

tinte d paper three inches long and three qu a r
te rs of an inch wide pasted upon a black ca rd
,
bo ard T h e se are the largest siz e that can

.
be c on ve nientl y empl o ye d since longer one s ,
d o not give t h e complementary colou rs pe rfe ct

to th e ends When a patient stands a few fee t
.
in fron t of the O bserver these strips will give ,
bands of complementary c o l ours which when ,
used tra nsve rsely will be wider th a n the bod y

, ,
1 24 T HE HU MAN AT M OS PH E R E
t he blind so that the strip may be ful l y illumi
n at e d D irectly h e conside rs his eyes to be
.
s ufficiently colour blinded he turns towards t he

-
,
patient and looks a t some predetermined point

on the median line of the body when ( if used ,
transve rsely ) the complementa ry coloured band

will be seen reaching right a cross the body and
pa rtl y extending t o the ba ckground o n either
S ide , all being S imult a neousl y visible T his .
allows him t o notice va ri ations in the S h a des

of col our in eve ry p art of the b and Of course .
,
the tints of the pa rts of the ba nd ex tended be

yond the body can be comp a red with ea ch
other but not wi th t h e portion on the body
,
itself The above method seems a very sim

.
ple process but it will require a considera ble

,
a mount of pra ctice a nd the m a stery of one

,
or two deta ils trifling in themselves will assist

, ,
gre atly in the speed and comfort of the experi

m e nt .
Fi rst While looking at the coloured sl i p I t is

, ,
re quisite not onl y to fix the eyes on one p artie

ul a r S pot but to keep this in exact focus the
,
whole time as there is a great tendency to bl ur

,
ring which will greatly increase the length of

C O M PL E M ENTARY C O LO URS 1 25
time ne cessary fo r gazin g at it A slight effort

.
of the w ill is n ee df ul fo r this but in a short

,
time habit will make t he strain almost invo lun

tary If this spot on the coloure d slip be re
.
placed by a letter or figure a double purp ose,
will be served a fixe d point and a me ans of

,
re gistration will both be gained S e con dly a .

,
difficulty is e xperience d whe n be ginning this

inspe ction in keeping the e ye s fixe d upon a
,
give n Sp ot on th e p atie nt s body owi n g to th e

’
prone ness of t he compl e me nta ry coloure d band

to m ove ofte n out of the line of vision a n d t he
,
e ye s fo ll o w it ,thus comple te ly de stroying t he

be ne fit of t he obse rvati on As soon as the habit
.
of ke eping the e ye s station a ry upon o n e point

h as been acquire d t he compleme nta ry co loure d
,
band will re main fa irly motionle ss and S hould ,
it move away it will return again to the proper

position of its own acco rd As dexte rity is only
.
acquired by practice it is a good p lan to train

,
t he e ye s upon s o m e ina n imate o bj e ct befo re
p roc e edi n g t o the e x a mi n ation of a human

subject .
I n t h e fo l low mg d e scription unless otherwis e

,
specified the ye ll ow strip with its blue comple

,
m e nta ry co l oure d b a nd will be t h e colour im
plied Fo r brevity s sake the term C C will
.
’
. .
be e mployed for compl e ment a ry coloured a n d ,
P C will me a n the primary c o lou r or t he

. .
colour of the strip gaze d at As n atura lly .

, ,
there are slight va riations of the S kin and sh ad

ows on the body of the p atient the observer ,
ought to notice e very modific ation however in

S I gn ifica n t before commencing inspection with
,
t h e C C band . With care j udgment a nd a

. .
,
little experience most of the difficulties a ris

ing from th e se cause s will disappea r I n its .
simplest aspe ct the C C band proj ecte d on a . .
body in good h e alth will be equal in tint all,
over after due allowance has been made fo r

,
any deviation of the colour of the skin The .
extensi ons of this band on the tw o side s Oft e n ,
but not alwa ys correspond in hue T he se e x

, .
tensions as would be expected have invariably

, ,
quite a diff e rent tint from that of the p a rt of

t h e C C b a nd lying on the b ody itself m a inl y
. .
,
on account of th e colou r of the background .
When t h e exte nsions of the C C band of a . .
he a lthy subject S how a tint on the o n e S ide

unlike that of th e other the diff erence is rare ly ,
Of s eparation may occur any distance to the
right o r left If the C C ba nd ( on o n e S ide
. . .
light and o n t he oth e r da rk ) be continue d be

yond the body the extension on the light side
,
will have inva riably a lighter shade than t he

extension of the dark porti on of the band The .
dark part generally ove rlies some deranged

po rtion of t he body and it will be found that
,
this p art h a s absolutel y become d arker than the

rest Of the band However the deranged part
.
,
of the body m ay c a use the C C band to become . .
lighter instead of darker .
B ut S lightl y diffe rent is a nother variation in ,
which instea d Of the C C band across h a lf the

. .
body being changed in shade only a p a tch , ,
large or sm a ll is noticed to be dark or light and

,
wholly surrounded by the natural colour of the

band When th e patch is large it occasion ally
.
takes the outline of an o rga n in whol e or in pa rt ;

th e small patch e s not e xc e e di n g about a n inch
in di a m e ter do not of themselve s disclose what

,
o rga n is aff ected a lthough th e y ge nera lly point

,
to some disease or loc a l disturbance and almost

inva ri a bly to the sea t of tende rn ess or pa i n I n .
these instances wh e n the colour change is S light ,

C OMPL EM ENTARY C O LO URS 129
the variations may constantly be perceived more

readily W h e n the colour is fading So far ref .
e renc e has been made to som e pa rt or oth e r
of the band which has become either lighter

or darker ; occasiona lly h owever the spots are , ,
change d in colour ( Case 3 3 ) as if another hue

had been added while in o n e o r two instances
,
brown (Case 1 7 ) has been substituted for the

blue in the band .
Four P C slips h ave been chosen but it will

. .
,
be found that e ach has advantages not possessed

by th e other T hese advantage s a re genera lly
.
dependent upon some obscure c a use connecte d

with the patient Fo r ordina ry observations
.
,
the P C yellow strip giving a blue C C band

~
. . . .
is the most useful since it is more sensitive to

,
ch ange th an the yellow C C band while t he . .

,
l atte r is especia lly va luable as a control fo r

the blue C C b and owing to its so often being
. .
,
the reciprocal when there is a loca l ch ange of

,
tint T here are occasions also when for s ome

.
incompre he nsible reason it is advanta geous to

wo rk with the ye ll ow C C band rather tha n . .
t he blue . Perhaps t h e most s e nsitive of all

these ba n ds is the g reen but unfortunately it ,
d oes not undergo s o many variati ons as the
blue and the changes are also more fleetn
,
in ch a racter I n cases of d oubt its delic acy

.
of action sometimes de ci des a que stion of fine

diff erences Of colour T he ch oice of a colour
.
for the C C band is not very import ant in the

. .
ordinary w ay if it be borne in mind th a t occa

,
s io n a ll y owing to individual idiosyncra sies of

,
a p a tient b e tter results with one colour th an

,
another c a n be O btai n ed ; unfortunately there

seems t o be no m e ans of decidin g which is the
best b and to e mploy except by use .
D uring th e se e xperiments the observer will

find th a t his eyes very so on become fatigued a nd ,
as no am ount of will p ower can be of a ny assist

ance he will e ither h ave to l e ave o ff the inspec
,
ti on fo r a S hort time o r else chan ge the C C

, . .
ba nd T he fo rmer whe n p ossibl e is decidedly

.
preferable a s the other is to a great e xtent a

,
m a keshift t o be used wh e n t h e O bse rvati on can

n ot be c ontinued very much l onge r S h ould t he .
latter meth od be ch ose n an alte rn ative C C . .
b and to o n e previous ly use d will be foun d th e

best t o e mpl oy .
—
A most pertinent qu esti on one very difficult
1 32 THE H UMAN AT M OSPH E R E
skin b e ing the cause of the change of tint is ,
that when t h e C C b a nd is discoloured up to

. .
t h e edge of the body t h e e xt e ns ion beyond will

,
be similarly aff ecte d be in g lighter or da rker

,
as the case may be U n de r no circumstances

.
can the latter chang e re sult from th e influence

of the skin therefo re there is n othing else to
,
which it can be attribute d save the Aura a l ,
though it se e ms hardly cre dibl e that such tra n s

p a rent ne a rl y colourless alm ost in visible fine ly
, , ,
divide d matte r sh ould have such an effect upon

the comple m e n tary colours S ec on dl y : I s the .
thickness of the Aura sufficie nt to produce a

ch a nge in t h e C C ban d '
.
”
. E very t hi n g points
t o a n e gative answer to this prop osition ; there
is no evidence to le ad us to such a conclusion .
As the Aura is a highly attenu ated mate ri a l

( w e use the word a dv1 s e dl y ) it would h ave to
acquire a n e n o rm ous thickness before it c ould

produce any p e rceptible a lteration in the com
p l e me n t ar y colour O n e
. c a se ( N o 3 0 Fig .2 1,) .
illustrates this fact in th e strongest way I t is .
that of a woman w h o wh e n standing sidewa ys

, ,
to the Obse rver h a d the Aura over her a bdomen

,
quite four times a s wide a s over the thorax .

C O M PL EM ENTARY C O L OURS 1 33
Now as s he stood facing n o diffe rence could

,
be
seen e ith e r d irectly o r when the C C band was . .
use d since t h e c ol ou r was exactly th e same on

,
t he thorax as o n t h e ab do m e n provi n g it
,
It .
is comm on to meet with an alogous in stance s

during p re gn an cy wh e n th e woman th en has
t h e Au ra in fro nt of t he abdome n thre e o r four
times wide r than it is before h e r th orax I n .
no case h as th is e xtra bre adth ma de an y d iffe r

e n c e t o t h e S had e of t h e C C ba n d
. . .
T h e first two theoretical age n cies that can ,
produce a cha n ge in the S hade of the C C . .
ban d have thus bee n d iscoun te d and the re

, ,
remain s t h e third an d t he fourth which seem ,
to offer to some c onsi de rable exte nt a solution of

t h e proble m .T hirdly : C an a cha n ge in t h e
texture of th e Aura i nduce a sufficient alte ra
tion in t he C C ba n d to accoun t fo r change
. .
in its tint I n Chapte r I II it has b e e n notice d

that t h e I nne r Aura may l ose its lin e ate d ap
p ea ra n ce and
, b e com e gra n ulat e d T his
. stat e is
me t with in p e rs ons a pp are n tly in good h e alth ,
but much m o re fre que n tly d u rin g ill h e alth o r ,
when there is some local d isturbance of which

t h e d e tails will be d e scrib e d in anoth e r chapte r .
1 34 THE HUMAN AT M OS PH E R E
At the pre sent time a ll w e a re concerned with
is the query a s to whether t h e gr oss ch a nge of
the textu re of the Aura c a n c a use an alterati on
in the C C band o r n ot In certain insta nce s
. .
'
it doe s seem suffi cie nt ; in othe rs its a ction is

ni l and in a third set although it may assist
, ,
yet there is a nother facto r at work Referring .
to Case 3 2 it will be found th at the patie nt as ,
she stood facing t he observer and was e xamine d

,
with the blue C C band h ad a l a rge patch

. .
,
over the left h ypochondrium d a rke r th a n t he ,
rem a ining norm a l portion of th e band and th a t ,
the extension of the b a nd partook e qu a lly of the

a lteration When inspecte d through a d a rk
.
c a rmine screen the I nner Aura by the S ide of ,
the trunk showed that this part of the Aura

,
had be come coa rsely granular between the level

of the sterno xiphoid and the inte rtubercular
-
pl a nes ; a nd when she stood sideways or h a lf

, ,
side ways this could be observed in the sam e

,
regi on in front of th e trunk I n another we ll .
m a rked inst a nce ( Case wh e n the C C band . .
w as projected upon the th o ra x it w as much ,
lighter on the left side a nd beyond th an on

t h e right .
c oarse ly granular whe n see n through a c a rmin e
scre en D ire ctly she w as inspected by me ans of
.
the C C bands n o diff erence in th e ir S h ades

. .
,
could be discovere d notwithsta n ding the use ,
of diff ere n t col ou rs T his case shows that th e

.
altere d te xture of the Aura as far as could ,
be asc e rtaine d ( e xactly as in fo rm e r inst a nces )

did not affe ct t he c ol our of t h e C C band A . . .
similar case is that of a girl ( Case 2 3 ) who had

, ,
a ray procee ding from t he l eft bre ast that w as ,
S hort a n d thick and when e xamine d through

, ,
a carmine screen looked c oarsely granular .
When th e blue C C band was thrown up on . .
the S pot from which t h e ray e manate d it ap ,
p e a r e d lighter tha n t h e s u rrou n di n g norma l

band while with a yell ow C C band this sa me
,
. .
,
space looked darke r than th e re st of the ba nd .
I n this instanc e there must have b een som e

other cause than the mere ly gra n ular conditi on
of the Aura to produce the m odification of the
C C band
. . .
T o sum up
()1W h e n t h e alt e rati o n of all the S hades of

a ll the C C bands i s the sam e the gra nular
. .
,
C OM PL EM ENT A R Y C O L OURS 1 37
state of t he Aura is most like ly t h e cause of th e

modification .
At times this granular state has n o effect

,
upon the C C ba n d. . .
( )
2 When t h e C C b a nds are
. a ltere.d s o m e ,
being made lighter and some darker the re can ,
be no doubt th at the ch a nge is not e ntirely

due to the granul a r condition of the Aura but ,
th at some other factor is present .
T he fou rth a nd l a st agent na mel y

, the , ,
colour of the Aura see ms to be the only one

”
that will e xplain all the rem aining case s and ,
it supplies th e missing factor in the last ex

ample I t ma y be problematic but is ce rta inly
.
,
1
correct in man y instance s and gives a g ood

working hypothesis I t is as follows : name ly
.
,
that the Aura is coloure d a lth ough th e colours ,
m ay not be distinguish able by the naked e y e .
Ye t they a re sufficiently in tense t o modify t h e

C C band As pre sumptive evidence clairv o y
. . .
,
ants affirm that the y can see the Auras in all

colours and that often a c olour may b e only
,
loc al
.
Genera lly the Aura looks to the writer blue ,
S App d i x
1
ee en .
o r blue mixe d with m o re o r l e ss gre y or even ,
gre y itse lf T his co nstant c ol our is most like

.
l y due t o t h e e mpl o yment of the sp ecta ura

n in e screen and t o its long p e riod of action
up o n the re tina after p e ering through it a t the
light O ccasionally e ven after this preparati on

.
,
of his e ye s with t h e spect auran in e scre e n the ,
write r has n otice d that wh e n omitti n g the

,
use of t h e light scre e n t h e Aura has h a d a

,
ye ll owish o r gree nish tin ge T his latte r is .
probably t h e effe ct of th e admixture of yellow

up o n t h e blu e T h e following ph e nomenon
.
g iv e s gr e at w e ight to t h e ab o ve th e o ry A .
ray was see n e man ating from t he fo re finge r

of a man in go od h e alth t h e ray at first a , ,
lem on c o l our change d rapidly to a t ranspar

,
e n t ruby r e d . T h e ray was about one inch in

l e ngth an d half an inch wide I t procee ded .
straight outwards with out any e xpansion o r

c ontracti on a n d w s app aren tly m o re de nse
, a
tha n t h e surroundi n g Au ra B e hin d was a .
black background so that it was see n un de r

ve ry favourable circumstance s (see p age
N o w suppos e this ye ll ow ray t o be proj e cted
from th e patien t s body towa rds the observer
’
,
would be more proba ble with the bl ue ba nd ,
o wing to the range of colours it p asses th rough

whilst dis appea ring If inspected through a red
.
scre en this spot ought to reta in its red hue but

, ,
be lighter than the norm a l colour of the band .
I t ma y be added th a t even if a p a rticul ar yellow

or red ray were visible to the n aked eye it c an ,
easily be c onceived th a t the colou rs might then

be a little less bright yet could be better seen
, ,
by the aid of the C C band If in this a nd

. . .
simil ar rays the line s a s they proceed outwa rds

, ,
remain p a rallel the S pot would be sh a rply de

,
'
fine d but should they exp a nd then the edges

, ,
wi ll be blurred a nd the colours of the spot and

of the C C band gra du a lly blend into e ach
. .
other c ausing a difficulty in seeing the l a rge

, ,
and an impossibility to perceive the smaller

ones T his theory will a lso suppl y the reason
.
w h y a p a tch will a ppe a r d a rke r with one C C . .
b and and lighte r with a nother I n the next .
chapter will be found a description of gaps in

the Aura T h e se will afford a nother explana
.
tion of the chromatic ch a nges in the C C b and . . .
As the forces which produce the Au ra act

usu a ll y a t right a ngles to the body their local ,
C OMPL E M ENTAR Y C O LOU RS 1 41
cessation would be an immediate c ause of a

sp ace devoid of an y Aura a n d th e genera l re sult
,
would be towards t h e formation of cylindric al

g aps having th e ir l o ng axis at ri g ht angles , and
o n e of th e ir e nds in contact with the bod y
( C a s e When t h e Auric forces a re in c o m

p l e t e ab e yance at o n e spot and, acting p ar tly
in the surrounding pa rts incre asing in strength
,
furthe r off from the give n sp ot until they have

re gained the ir full p ower inste ad of a cy lin
de r be i n g fo rmed the vo id space will beco m e
,
conical with its pointed end towards the body

( Cases 2 4 and As might be expect e d t h e
Aura surroun din g these gaps is sometime s if ,
n o t always m o dified in texture

, T he fo llowing
.
a re the d a t a that serve a s the interpretati o n of
t h e changes in the C C band in certain in

. .
stances .
F ir s t the cyli n der as seen o n a S i d e view will

,
be considere d If the texture of the Aura sur

.
roun ding it has n ot in any way bec ome diso r

g a n i s e d , th e o ry w o ul d l e a d us t o e xp e ct a
colour ch ange in all the C C bands indis . .
crimin at e l y and that this change would cause

,
the tint to be lighter in S h ade I n this instance

.
practice corroborates the o ry If however t he
.
, ,
Aura surrounding t h e void sp a ce should be

aff ected ( especi a ll y if it has been m ade more
dense and gra nul a r ) the altera tion in the C C
, .
band might and usu a lly would result in t he

,
production of a darker sh ade a nd this would ,
h o ld go od fo r C C bands of a ll colou rs N eve r

. . .
t h e l ess it is c o nceivable although w e have

,
n e ver identified an inst a nce that the ch ange

,
that h as taken pl ace in the Aura might be one

of discoloration and then there would be
,
produced a darke r shade in some of the C C . .
b ands and a lig hte r tint in others .
S econ dly if t h e gap in the Aura be conical

, ,
and seen in a S imil a r position t he same argu ,
m e nts in the m a in will hold good but owing to ,
the sh ape Of the gap th e ch ange of shade in the

,
C C b a nd inste ad of be in g S harply de fined

. .
would have a b l urre d margin the tints of t h e ,
sp ot and t h e rest of t h e ba n d g radually blend

in g int o each other I t is s e lf evide nt th a t in
.
-
t h e wh o l e of this d escripti on the c o l o ur changes
will ta ke p lace o utsi de t he body in t he exten

sion of th e C C band
. . .
I t will be sh own late r o n th at t h e d efe cts of

1 44 T H E HUMAN ATM OS PH E R E
see n as a light pa tch which ought theoretic all y
,
to be surrounded by a dark line but this is a ,
refinement t oo subtle to be detected in practice .
T his discoloured patch will be constant with

C C bands of all colours If under the same
. . .
c ondi tions the va cant sp ace be small w e m ay ,
expect either to see a dark space or no ch ange ,
wh ateve r in the C C b a nd a ccording to the

. .
amount of modification that h a s t ake n pl a ce in

the Aura Wh e n the defect is conica l the
.
,
alteration in the C C b and will cove r a large

. .
surfa ce but the graduati on will be so t h at in

,
a ll prob a bility no chrom a tic ch anges c an be

detected .
I t w ill be convenient to t a bul a te the ch a nges

of colour induced by the Aura in the C C . .
band T he first division will conta in the de

.
rangement of the Aura ove r a l a rge portion

of th e body and secondl y in contradistinction
, ,
t o be e ntire l y surrounded by the norm a l col our .
T his classific a ti o n of course is a rtificial but is

, , ,
usef ul as the former division may include an

altera tion th a t ca n comprise h alf the circum
fe rence Of the body a nd at the s a me time the
,
causes and va ri a tions are not s o m any .

CO MPL EM ENTARY C O LO URS 1 45
1Alteration of Colour over a l a rge portion

.
of the body .
Sh a r ply de fine d
Se pa r i
at o n o f th e t w o
Gr dua l ch an
,
fro m o ne Sh de
a
g e a
3 ha des may be
to the o th e r ,
C o arse , i nduc i ng darke r Sh ade .
M e d i u m us ua ll ro duc i n li ht
y p
, g g
Due to the Aura be er Sh a de .
co mi n
g gr an ul a r . Fi ne , usua lly pr duc i o n
g li ghter
s h ade o r,
p rh p e a s, no a lte ra
ti o n .
Chrom atic changes of the Aura proble matic .
2 . patches of various sizes w hich

D iscoloured
'
can be seen entirely s u rrounded by t h e normal
colour of the C C band . . .
SE PA RA T I ON BE T WE E N THE TWO S HA DES

C i r u m ri b d l c l d g m t
c sc e o a e ran e en
W th th Au c F c g t A
P atche s sh ar l
py de
I e ri or e re a .
fine d
R y a b ca nG p m th e see n a s e
Au raE ti . but r tri c t d n re es e
b
a f Au i F c
se n ce o r c or es .
D r g d Au i c F
e an e
g t t i
r o rce , re a e s n
th e t r du
ce n re
g ll y l i g a a ess e n n
P a t ch e s
gr a dua lly t w d
o ar dg G p i th
s e es . a s n e
b l e nd i n g Au f m w t f Au i c F c
ra ro an o r or e
wh i c h b c m t g r
e oth m es s ro n e e o re
di t t it i fr m th
s an t s o e ce n re .
Co a rs e , i n duc i ng dar ker shade .
M e d i u m usua ll i n duc i n li hter

, y g g
Aur a whe n gr a n ul a r Sh a de .
Fi ne , li ghter s h a de or no a ltera
tio n .
A sso c ate i d the gr l

an u a r s ta te ,
C hr m ti c
o a ch a n
g
e
pu r e an d s i m l e ( dark
p or li ght
ch an e of
g hue ) .
148 THE HUMAN AT M OS PH E RE
to its pristine state The a lteration in th e
.
Au ra may app a rentl y not be a t a ll co mmensu

ra te with th e illness as S ome of the modifica
,
tions are much too subtle for detection b y the

crude methods of observa tions at prese nt av aila
ble but it m ay be taken for gra nted th a t future
,
method s of investigation wi l l disclose a grea ter

number a nd va riety of minute defects The .
ch anges most like ly to be detected at the present

time a re va riations in th e siz e a nd shape of the
Aura together with a lterations of colour and
,
texture .
T h e Aura O f a n yone in good health is inv ari

a bl y symmetric a l as he stands either facmg or
with his b ack to the observer Tw o c ases men
.
t io ne d elsewhere (p a ge 1 8 8 ) a re the onl y excep
tions w e h ave met with D own the front a nd

.
b ack of a pers on sta nding sideways there is no

equa lity As long a s the proper sh ape of the
.
Aura is ret a ined there seems to be no mea ns ,
except experience of telling whether it is la rge

o r sm a ll since no st a ndard of si z e exists A
, .
sta nda rd of comp a rison might possibly be Ob

t a in ed if the Aura of a patient h a d been p re
v io us l y me a sured when in good health but e ven

,
AURAS IN D I SEAS E 1 49
then it must be re membere d that the app arent

e nlarge m e nt or diminution might be onl y due
to some ch ange of texture as visibl e S i z e and

,
texture are Often associate d the o ne with the

oth e r .
For the present w e sh a ll confine our att ention

to instances in which t he whole or a large por ,
tion of th e Aura a re modifie d in shap e from con

st it ut io n a l causes
. T h e first va riation from that
of a typ ically h e a lthy Aura is that found in
women and girls suff e ring from hysteri a I n .
this complaint the ch aracteristic form of th e

Aura of the patient as she stands facing th e
,
in vestigator is symme trical on the two sides

, ,
wide by th e side of t h e trun k ; but t h e Aura ,
instead of as I n he alth gradually diminishing

and re ach ing its narrowest limits not higher
th an th e l ower h a lf of t h e thigh an d ve ry fre
quently much furth e r down suddenl y contracts
,
to its final bre adth e ith e r at or a ve ry short

, ,
distance from the pubes As sh e stands S ide

.
ways the Aura in front of the body is the full

,
average or even wide r whil e at the back it is

,
broad with a we ll -marked bulge outwards in

,
the lumbar regions At th is point it contracts

.
very sharply diminishing to its minimum .
T h e contra ction takes pl ace at t h e s ame leve l on

a side View and from thence proceeds down
wa rds at an even brea dth O nly two cases will .
be quoted now as several othe rs must be

,
referred to l a ter on for various purposes .
—
CA SE 1 3 I N a young woman of twenty
. . .
,
two years of a ge a dressm aker well developed

, , ,
slightl y anwmic very nervous compl a ins of

, ,
being weak a nd S hort of breath H e r pulse

, .
is fluctu ating h aving eighty to ninety be ats a

,
minute when quie t incre asing to one hundred

,
and thi rty or more upon the slightest exertion

'
T h ere are c a rdi a c mu rmu rs which a re const a ntly

ch a nging their positions or vanishing entirely .
S he suff e rs fro m g lobus hy s ter icus which Sh e ,
desc ribes as starting from t he umbilicus S ome .
times she has fa inting fits which l a st for a bo u

, ta
qu arter of an hour during which she decl a res
,
sh e is pe rfectl y cogn i za nt of wh a t is going o n
around her U nder the administration of a

.
tonic she rapidl y imp roved T h e genera l colour .
of her Aura w as bluish grey T he I nner Aura .
w as well marked lin e a ted about two I nches

, ,
wide all ove r he r body As she stood facing t h e

. .
chest and abdomen it was even throughout ex
, ,
cept just above the pubes where it w as d a rker

S howing that S h e w as ne a r her menstru a l period .
T his she expected in four d a ys When the b a nd.
w as used transve rsely a d a rk patch w as o b

,
se rved o n th e right lumbar re gion which w as

te nder to the touch At the level of the tra ns
.
pyloric plane the b a nd w as even across the body ,
but t h e right extension w a s ligh t er th a n the

left T he diff erence in tint w as not so m a rked
.
,
as is Often the case wh e n the I nner Aura is

coarse ly gr anul a r locally T here w as a d a rk
, .
patch on t he tw o upper dorsal spines ; this part

was tender and she often had p a in there N oth .
ing fu rther w as to be noted .
G irls w h o are more emotion a l th a n they

should be and w ho a re genera lly described
,
b y their relatives as S lightly hysteric a l al ,
though they ma y never have suff e red from a ny

grave attack S how a great te ndency for their
,
Auras to pa rtake to some e xte nt of the char

, ,
a ct e r ist ics of what has been termed the h y st e ri
cal Aura O n t he other h and women not

.
n atur a lly hysterical w h o through rave anx iety

,
g
o r trouble have a nervous breakdown do not ,
T HE HUMAN ATM OS PH E R E
FI G . 14 .
—H y ste ri ca l Aur
a in a
y o un
g g i r l .
Ve ry w i de by the tr un k for a c h ild

.
oC mpa re w i th Fi
g 2 5 . .
AURAS IN D I SEAS E 1 57
S how Auras of th is peculiar type A we ll .
marked instan ce is that of the young lady men

“
t io ned in Case 3 5 .
Whilst examin ing some chil d re n for the

hereditary size s of the Aura w e came acros s a ,
most interesting instan ce of what may be

termed the hysterical shape a ve ry good illus ,
t rat io n of t h e above d e scripti o n .
, .
—
CASE 1 4 Figs 1 4 and 1 5 E X a girl not . .
, ,
.
quite e ight ye ars of a ge w as in spe cte d in J uly , ,
1910 . S he w as a brigh t cleve r child but ve ry ,
excitable and had a n e urotic pare n ta g e o n bo th

sides (see T able T h e Aura was bluish gre y
in colour T h e I nne r Aura was about o ne a n d
.
a half in che s wi de all ove r t h e body O n t he .
left side it w as fo r th e who le le n gth of t he

,
trunk bri g ht be in g a ve ry goo d i n sta nce of

, ,
NO 1 Ray ( page
. Afte r a S hort time this
brightne ss d iminishe d and the Aura re sumed its
n atural state I t h owe ve r su g ge ste d t h e ap
.
, ,
p e a ra n ce of t h e rays proc e e di n g from di ff e r e n t

parts of the body but n on e we re absolute ly ,
se e n Round the hea d t h e O ute r Aura w as a

.
little wide r than t he bre adth of th e shoulde rs .
When she p lace d h e r h ands be hind her neck t he ,

ha ze was fou r i n ches by t h e side of the trunk ,
narrowing to a little less than three a t a ve ry

S hort dist a nc e b e low t h e pubes whence it de ,
sce nde d re gularly downwa rds I t w as not .

,
h owe ve r e asy to de te rmine the exact width as

, ,
t h e margi n e sp e ciall y by t h e lower limbs w as ,
ill defin e d Wh e n S h e turned sideways t he

.
,
O uter Au ra w as not quite three inches down

the side Of the bod y but at th e back it bulged
,
o ut from j ust b e low t h e shoulders to S ix i n ch e s

, ,
at th e lumbar re gion a n d curved in sharply a

short distance be low the nates T he C C ba nd . . .
w a s eve n all ove r t h e body T his child had a

.
ve ry wide Aura for her age which is the more ,
re m a rkable as all th e oth e r me mbers of the

family h a d n a rrow ones I t also shows as dis
.
t in ct l y a n hyst e rical typ e as it is possible to
s e e in an I nfantile Aura .
T h e next dise as e t o be considered is Ep ilep sy .
T he Aura of e pil e ptics h a s a distinct ch a racter

of its own quite diff ere nt from the h ysterica l
,
type Th e latte r as has j ust b ee n described is

.
, ,
wide and symm e trical on the two sides of th e

tru nk as th e pati e nt face s th e obse rver, whil e
the form e r is p ec uliarly u n e qual T he i n e qual .
on the left it will not e xceed th e bre adth of th e
shoulde r and may even be one o r tw o inches
o
le ss Al l down t h e trunk and limbs it is n a r

.
rower o u th e left side A detailed ex amination

.
w ill S how that the I nner Aura is e qu a ll y a f
fect ed with the O uter b e ing narrowe r on t he ,
l eft S ide and this is m o re m a rkedly the case

,
round the head B eside s it will be seen to be

.
,
more opaque than n ormal an d striation ( if not ,
lost a ltoge th e r ) is very difficult to detect The .
O uter Aur a does not appear greatly a lte red ex

ce pt I n S i ze When th e patient stands sideways
.
,
t h e Aura at the back a n d the front of the body
shows no signs of abnormality and in this re ; ,
spect differs from t h e hysterical Aura which is ,
undul y wide in the lumbar region The colour .
is usu a ll y grey but occasionally there is a

,
bluish tinge T he patien ts w e h ave seen va ry

.
from twelve to fo rt y five ye ars being four

- .
m ales and S ix females .
,
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CAS E 1 5 Fig 1 6 X X a bootm aker twen
. . . .
,
t y -th ree ye a rs old H e is a dull loo king young

.
m an and h as been an e pileptic since he was

twelve yea rs old During the l ast few years he
.
h as not had many fits H is family histo ry is .

AU RA S IN D I S EAS E
FI G . 16 .
—
Epile pt i c Aura of a man . B o th
I nne r an d Oute r A ur as n a rro we r o n the

le ft th an on the r i ght s i de .
1 64 TH E HU MAN ATM OS PH ERE
b re adth n arrowing to two a nd a h a lf by the
,
thighs a nd legs Th e I nner Aura w as two and

.
a h a lf inches wide by the trunk contracting to ,
two l ower down O n the left S ide of the t runk

.
the O uter Aura w as two and a h a lf inches in

breadth lessening to two by the thigh a nd leg
, .
T he I nner Aura w as tw o inches b y the trunk

and one and a h a lf lower down When he .
stood S ideways the O uter Aura in front w as

,
tw o a nd a half inches a nd the I nner tw o all t h e ,
way down At the b ack the O uter Aura was

.
three and a h a lf and the I nner two inches T he .
tw o Auras were less diff erenti a ted th a n usu a l .
S triae could be made out on the right side but ,
not on the left T he aura was on the whol e .

, ,
coa rse gra ined especially the I nner on the left

,
side The blue C C b and was even on t he

. . .
body but its right extension by the side of t he

,
head w as darker th a n the one on the left which ,
is exce ptional T he extensions by the side of

.
the t runk h ad their shades of colours reverse d .
CAS E 1 6 Fig 1 7 B X a girl eightee n

, . .
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. .
, ,
years of age S ister of the patient in the last

,
ca se a dressm aker fat anaemic and dull look

, , , ,
ing I n O ctobe r 1 9 08 against her moth e r s

.
, ,
’
A UR AS IN D I SEA S E
FI G . l7 .
-E il
p p e t i c Aur a of a wo m an .
about a n hour after getting up and frequently ,
a second attack during the evening For some .
time sh e attended one of the H ospita ls for Ner

vous D iseases but did not ga in any benefit
, .
O n N ove mber 2 3 1 9 09 w e prescribed I W

, ,
1
gra in of H yoscyamine S ulphate every morning .
T his acte d b e neficiall y as until Janu a ry 3 0

, ,
1 9 1 0 s h e has had o n ly two fits

, O n e w as a .
S light one on N ovemb e r 2 7 t h when S h e w as ,
awakened by some curtains in her room being

o n fire Th e fit took place immedi atel y A nd
. .
the second was on Christmas D ay after the fes

t iv it ies T h e drug w a s stopped a t the e n d of
.
D ecember I n the middle of this month S h e w as

.
e x amined H er Aura w as well m a rke d grey in

.
,
colour with no rays

, .
T hrough a d a rk c a rmine screen h e r Aur a w as

plainl y diff erentiated I t w as more coarsel y
.
gra nul ated on the left side than on the right .
A s S h e s tood facing the obse rver no striation ,
could be se en in the I nn e r Aura on the left side ,
a nd onl y ve ry fain t lineation on the right T he .
width was three inch e s down the right S ide and

only tw o on t h e left B y the right side of her
.
h e ad th e Au ra w as seven a nd a half inche s in

AURAS IN D I S EAS E 1 69
breadth against fiv e and a half on t h e l eft

, .
When she raised her a rms t he O ute r Aura w as

nine inches wide on th e right by the side of t h e
trun k gradually diminishing to four down the
,
lowe r limbs O n th e left it was se ve n in che s

.
wide by t he trunk l e sse nin g to three lowe r ,
down Wh e n S h e turn e d side ways t h e O ute r

.
,
Aura in front was thre e inch e s in bre a dth and ,
t h e in n e r two At th e back t h e wide st e xte n t

.
was S ix in ch e s fo r t h e O ute r an d fo r t h e I n ne r ,
th re e T he C C ba n ds both blue an d ye ll ow
. . .
, ,
we re e ven all ove r t h e b ody but t h e l eft e xte n ,
sion of t h e ba n d b e yon d t h e b od y was much

darke r tha n t he ri g ht .
,
—
CAS E 1 7 Fi gs 1 8 n d 1 9 X T a sch oo l . a . . .
,
boy th irtee n ye ars of age A frien d tol d us th at

, .
“
t h e boy h a d dre amy attacks an d aske d his ”
fathe r to bring him fo r e xamination H e came .
in January 1 9 1 0 an d p urpose ly n o que stions

, ,
were aske d before in spection Th e Aura w as .
distinctly e pile ptic The colour was a gree nish .
gre y and as he stood facing t he obse rve r t he

, , ,
O ute r Aura was S I X I nc h e s w id e and the I nne r

thre e o n t he ri ght sid e of t he h e ad while o n , ,
t h e l eft it was four an d two respectivel y

, .
Whe n h e p ut his ha n ds to t h e back of his neck
t h e O ut e r on the right side of his trunk w as
four inch e s in breadth n arrowing about h alf an
,
inch lowe r down ; and t h e I nne r Aura w as about

half an inch l e ss than th e O ute r .
O n t h e left S id e t h e O uter Aura was only

three i n ch e s wide and t h e I nne r n o t quite two
and a half by t h e trunk an d by t h e lowe r limbs
,
half a n inch l e ss Wh e n h e turn e d sideways

.
,
down th e whole of t h e fron t t h e I n ne r Aura w as

about tw o an d a half inch e s wide and t he O uter ,
a little more At t h e back t h e I n ne r Au ra was

.
S imilar but t h e O uter bulge d out about

, six
inch e s at t h e small of t h e back the re mainder ,
being only thre e inch es wide .
I t is worth noticing that this protuberance of

the Aura at th e back is e xtrem e ly rare in males .
T h e blu e C C ba n d S h owe d an e ve n colour all

. .
over t h e body but its e xte n sion on the ri ght of

,
the head was lighte r tha n o n t h e l eft S tra n ge .
to say th e re was a d mixture of brown in the C .
C band be yond th e body e spe cially o n the l eft

.
,
side . T h e e xt e nsio n s of t h e C C band by t h e

. .
side of t he trunk we re ve ry similar e xce pt that ,
the brown colour was not so well marke d S ub .

AURAS IN D I S EAS E
FI G 19 -E i l e t i c Aura of a bo y di ng
st a n
. .
p p
Si dewa
y s . U nusua l bul ge at
b ack fo r a m a le
.
hou rs or days or occasion a lly weeks at a time
, .
T hey do n o t howe ve r prevent him from follow

in g h is trad e Also he is liable to nervous
.
,
attacks tre mbli n g d re a d etc H is Aura w as

, , , .
i n sp ected M arch 1 9 1 0 T he col our was grey

, .
,
a n d it w a s coarse in texture e sp e cially t h e I n ,
ner Aura o n t h e l eft side As h e stood facing .
the observer th e O ute r Aura around his he ad

,
was seven inches wide and the I nner two and a

half o n t h e right side while on the left they ,
were five an d two in ches respectively By the .
left side of the trunk th e O uter Aura w as two

and a half and t h e I nner two inch e s wide
, .
‘
Before w e inspecte d him w e had not th e ,
slightest ide a what sh ape the Aura would take ,
but after observation w e think w e may con ,
clude th at some of the att acks must h ave bee n

masked epilepsy .
D iminution of the whole of the O uter Aura

on one side is not confined to epileptics a lone ,
but in no non epil e ptic c ase h as there been

-
found a co n tracte d I nner Aura if the a bo ve ,
very d o ubtful cas e be e xcepted .
.
—
CA S E 1 9 T his is a ve ry interesting c ase N . .
D in April 1 9 07 when she w as twent y tw o

.
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A URAS IN D I S EAS E 177
yea rs old ove rworked herself at a school teac h

, ,
ing all day an d studying fo r an examination at

the same tim e S he ha d ve ry little S l ee p as s h e
.
,
was no t in bed until th e small hours and was

obliged to ge t up e arly S h e wen t h ome for the
.
E a ster holi d ays n o t fee lin g we ll and two days ,
after deve loped a high te mp e rature t h e c om ,
mencemen t of a n attack of meningitis which af

fecte d both sides of her brai n S h e was s o ill
.
that the nurse thought sh e h ad pas se d away ;

however she recove red bodily but was for two
, ,
ye ars a changed person me n tally I nstead of .
having be en unselfis h rath e r studious an d

, ,
a men able to re ason sh e becam e pe rve rse s e lfish

, , ,
and unable to con centrate h e r th oughts .
I t may be inte re sti n g t o n o te that K e rnig s

’
S ign w a s we ll marke d d u ri n g h e r ill n e ss re ,
maining to a slight exte nt for a ye ar an d a half ,
but six mon ths late r coul d n o t be de tecte d I n .
S e pte mb e r 1 9 08 h e r Aura was e xamin e d

, , T his .
w as bluish in colour we ll marke d and as S h e

, , ,
stood facing th e obse rver was much wide r o n

,
t h e left tha n on t h e right si d e T h e blue C C

. . .
b and w as e ve n all ove r t h e body but the right ,
extensions were much darker than the left .

June 1 9 09 H er bodily he a lth w as good a nd
, .
her mental powers had much improve d .
S h e has given up teaching doing house hold ,
work instead S he reads a fair amount but not

.
,
heavy boo ks N ove mber 1 9 09 she was exa m

.
, ,
in ed ag a i n T h e same character of Aura w a s re

.
t a in e d but the inequality h a d lessened

, T he .
Etheric D ouble w a s plainly visible on both sides

be ing a little over one eighth of an inch in -
width A S S h e stood facing t h e O bserver t he

.
,
O uter Aur a around her he a d w as five inches

wide on the ri g ht a gainst seven on the l eft
, .
By the sides of the trunk t he O uter Aura was

seven inches o n t h e right and eight on the left .
B y the thighs a n d legs there w as ve ry little dif

ference the e xte nt being about four inches
, .
T he I nner Aura was about three inches wide

and equal on t h e two sid es When sh e turne d .
S idewa y s there w a s a breadth of about three and
a h a lf inches in front an d four a nd a half at th e

,
b ack while th e I nn er Aura w as nearly two an d

,
a half inches back and front T h e important .
point to notice is that t h e I nner Aura w as

,
equa l on the tw o s ides Wh e th e r this would

. -
ha ve been th e case shortly after her ill n ess ,

far as could be asce rtaine d w as even all over the ,
body being about two a nd a half inches wide

,
.
While she stood facing the observer the Aura

w as a bout ten inches wide on the right side of
the he a d a nd trunk a nd not moreth an eight,
on the left I t narrowed gradu a lly to about

.
five inches b y the lower limbs being here sym ,
metrical On the two sides T he dista l margin .
of the O uter Aura w as a bout three inches in

brea dth a t the front and se ven at the back ;
T h e blue C C b a nd was dull a cross the e pigas

. .
t rium being more ultr a marine th a n blue

, T he .
right extension of the b and w as lighter than the

left .
,
—
CA SE 2 1 Figs 2 0 and 2 1 N U a lady. . . .
,
thirty four ye a rs of a ge w ho has never bee n ro

-
,
bust but h as never suffered from a ny severe ill

ness Sh e h as l a tel y p assed through a very try
.
ing time which h a s aff ected her he a lth m aking

,
he r dep ressed and thoroughl y run down S he .
compl a ins of p a ins in her head on the left side ,
and in her shoul de rs a nd thorax Upon exami .
n ation the gre at occipita l nerve w as found to be

,
ve ry tende r a nd there was a lso tende rness by the

,
l eft side Of th e spine as fa r down as the lowest

,
T HE HUM A N AT M OS PH E R E
FI G . 20Gr ul Aur by h d nd t unk

.
- an ar a ea a r
O f w m
a L i ght c l u d p tch v r
o an . o o re a o e
th l ft b
e et d l w r p t f th r
re as an o e ar o o ax .
A m ll d k
s a
p t u m b
ar ili c
er su o ne a r s .
AURAS IN D I S EAS E 1 85
do rsal ve rte bra This w as e speci ally m arked

.
whe re t he n e rves eme rge n d also in the usual

, a
corresponding sp ots on the th o rax and abdom en .
S h e w as i n specte d in June 1 9 08 , When sh e

.
face d th e obse rve r it was n otice abl e that her

Aura w as much wide r o n t h e right side than it
w as on t h e l eft there b e ing n e arly thre e inches
,
diffe rence by t he trun k but this was not so

,
gre at by t he S ide Of t h e h e a d When she .
turned sideways th e Aura showe d n o variation

from what migh t be exp ecte d in he a lth The .
blue C C b and had a much lighte r shade ove r

. .
the l eft side of the thorax than the right Th e .
line of demarcati on was th e median line of t h e

body but t he change from one side to t h e other
,
w a s gradual . T h e yell ow C C band was cor

. .
respo n din gl y modified I n front of t he abdo

.
men the tint was even all ove r When the .
back w as examin e d th e l eft side was lighter

than t he right the spin e s of the ve rtebrae be ing
,
t he line of de marcation . I n N ove mb e r 1 9 09

, ,
s h e w a s insp e ct e d agai n as s h e was in fair health

, .
As She stood facing th e obse rve r it was foun d

th at her I n ner Aura w as about three i nch e s
wider by the S ide Of t he head an d trunk and ,
e ve rywhe re else it w as only a little more than
tw o inch e s
. T h e O uter Au r a w a s e ven on both
side s b e in g e leven inches round her head ten
, ,
by t h e sides of her trunk and five by her legs

, .
Wh e n sh e turn e d side ways the O ute r Aura in

fron t of the body w as five in ches wide at the ,
small of t he back seven and lower down the

,
limbs fou r inches Although the O uter Aura

.
w a s equal in width on t h e t w o sid e s yet it ex,
h ibit e d a cu riou s diff ere nce inasmuch as t h e

e xte rior margi n o f t h e right w a s more sharpl y
de fined than t h e l eft givi n g at first sight the

,
impre ssion of narrowing T his condition will

.
be re ferre d to late r o n .
I n addition to t h e a lteration in the shape

othe r changes could be distinguished T he I n .
ner Aura by the S ide of the head an d the thorax

as far down as t he lowest ribs w as granul a r ( fine )
,
and not so transparent as on the right side Be .
low this level there w as no diff erence o u the tw o

sides T h e blue C C b and showed a large
. . .
patch in front on th e left having a lighter sh ade

,
th an on the right T his included t he whole of

.
t h e mamma and t h e thorax be low T h e lines

.
of demarcation were distinct and sh a rp t he up ,

fo r arriving a t a de finite conclusion bec ause SO ,
far on l y tw o c ases which could come under this

he adin g h ave been seen A careful se arch has
.
been made fo r o thers conseq uently w e think

,
this pe culi a rity must be very ra re I t must be .
borne in mind that a S light difference in the

S i z e of the Aur a on the t w o S ides is ver y di fficult
to distinguish in males and young girls before

puberty and the detection is n ot made easier
,
S hould as sometimes occu rs the outline Of the

, ,
Aura be le ss distinct on the one side th an the

othe r Accordingly w e are almost restricted to
.
O bse rv a tion u on women for this investig a tion

p .
I n e ach of the two ex a mples given the pa ,
tient had certainl y avera ge if not greater abili

,
ties than usual I n neithe r w as there any bod

.
il y defect to ca use the ine qu a lity as both were,
well m ade a nd properl y proportioned women .
The health of e a ch h a d b e en good al l th eir lives ,
as they h a d escape d a lmost entire l y the common

ailments I n one of the m the Aura on the di
.
minished side did not S h ow so sharply a define d

margin as on t he side on which it w as norm al ,
but h aving m ade eve ry p ossible a llowance for

this eff ect th e re w as not t he slightest d oubt
,
AU RAS IN D I SEAS E 189
abo ut t he irre gularity To sum up in these .

,
two ins tances the symme try of th e Aura is with

out any S ignificanc e .
—
CASE 2 2 K N a tall h e alth y woman
. . .
, , ,
twen ty nin e ye ars of age whose only seri o us

-
,
illne ss was ulce r of t h e stom ach a fe w yea rs a go .
S h e w as i n sp ected S eptember 1 9 08 As she , .
stood facing t h e obse rve r her Aura w as see n as

a light blue mist broad by the side of her ,
he ad and also by t he side of h e r trunk coming ,
down to t he middl e of her thighs be fore it

wholly co ntracte d an d then it followed the o ut
,
line of t he bod y For some un accountable re a

.
son it w as much wide r o n the right S ide be ing ,
about twe lve inches at the broade st part and

three in t he narrowest pl ace O n the left S ide .
it did not e xce ed nine inches in th e widest part .
As she stood sideways it was nearl y fiv e inche s ,
wide in fron t of the body and about three down ,
the limbs At the back it came down broad to

.
t h e middle of t h e thighs b e fore it commenc e d ,
to contract .
—
CASE 23 E E a youn g lady n early twe nty
. . .
,
yea rs of age in good health with t he exceptio n

,
of a small cystic tumour of the left bre ast .

Sh e is strong and n e ve r had any illness H e r .
famil y his tory is howe ver by no means fault

, ,
l ess H e r e ldest siste r is slightly neurotic the

.
,
third one has had three fits an d he r brother s ,

’
in te llect is be low t he ave rage I n De cember .

,
1 9 09 she w a s i n specte d a n d as S h e stood facing

, ,
th e obse rv e r t h e O ut e r Aura w as perceived to

,
extend t e n i n ches o n the right side of the h e ad

and trunk while o n the left it w as quite o n e
,
inch l e ss in breadth Down t h e thighs an d l e gs

.
it w as fou r inches wide on the right an d three ,
and a half o n t he l eft side When S he turned .
S ide wa ys t h e A ura w as fou r inch e s wide in fron t

of t he trunk six at th e small of th e back an d
, ,
down the lower limbs about four i n che s T he .
I nner Aura w as three i nches all over the body ,
but stri ation could n o t be re adil y see n When .
she tu rned half side ways to t he left the position ,
of the tum o ur w as app a rent on account of the

I nner Aura being more de n se and more g ra n u
lar over it At the sam e tim e it looked like a
.
small ray bei n g streake d but not proce eding

, ,
fu rther than the margi n Whe n the blue C C. . .
band w as e mploye d t he c o l our was e ve n all ove r

,
‘
t h e body, exc e p t wh e re the t umo u r was wh e re ,

T HE HUMAN ATM OS PHE R E
22 .
—Aur a of a boy , w i th a i
con ca l
g p
a on the r i ght Si de .
the side of the body I t w as quite norm a l for a
.
boy of his a ge with the exception of a portion

,
on the right side from the level of the sterno

xiphoid pl ane to the crest of the ilium From .
the upper level just mentioned the A ura curved

inwards reaching the body at the level of the
,
twelfth rib From here it c ommenced cu rving

.
outwards regaining its full width at the crest

,
of the ilium T his gave the appe a rance of a

.
funnel shaped space de void of any Aura T he

- .
point of this sp ace seemed to touch the bod y ,
and the adj acent p a rts of the Aura did not ap -
pe ar in any w ay aff ected either in texture o r in

colour Upon ex a min ation with the blue C C
. . .
b and used transversely the right h a lf of the

, ,
body w as seen to be d a rker than the left ; in

addition the left extension w as correspondingl y
lighter than the rl gh t When the C C b and. . .
w a s employed upon t h e back the colour w as ,
n o rmal a bove the eleventh dorsa l spine but be ,
low had a darke r shade the transition between ,
the two be ing ab rupt A ll traces of the void

.
S pace v a nished if the boy stood in a n y position
except facing the observer When he turne d .

“
sideways the Aura w as seen to be pe rfectl y

,
1 96 PH E HU MAN ATM OS PH E R E
blu rred the m argins of the cu rves a s they we re
brighter and coarser th an the surroun ding Aura .
D irectl y the boy turned sidew ays no vestige Of

t h e a bnormal space could be perceived When .
the blue C C band w as used transve rsely the

. .
right extension w as seen to have a d a rker sh ade

than t h e l eft .
N othi n g m o re coul d be obse rved as the boy s

’
,
mother was in a hurry ha ving some other ap ,
pointmen t .
I n this case the brighte r a nd dens er f a lse r ays

by the margins of the fis sure were evidently
S imil a r to the granul a r appe a r a nces often seen
in a n I nner Aura and most likel y did not ex

,
tend beyond it Plainly there w as an inter rup

.
tion of this Aura a nd it is e xtremel y prob able

,
that the O ute r Aura w as S imil a rly aff ected .
CAS E 2 6 T his is an extremely inte resting

.
-
case of a little girl N H seve n ye a rs of age , . .

, ,
who in May 1 9 08 compl a ined of a p a in in the

, ,
right hip which was diagnosed as a very earl y

,
stage Of tube rcul a r hip disease C almett s tu .

’
be rculO -ophthalmic te st g ave a decided reaction .
As soon as p ossible she was se nt to a Chil

dren s h osp ital wh e re sh e re main e d as an in
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A URAS IN D I S EASE 1 97
patient until January 1 9 09 and after dismissal, ,
w as s e nt to a c o nvalesce nt home I n t h e fol

‘
lowing February within a day or two of h e r

,
a rrival h ome w e saw h e r S he was looking e x .
ceedingly we ll had no pain and had complete

,
moveme n t of h e r hip jo mt H e Aura w as - . r
fairl y develop ed of a gre yish blue colour about

-
, ,
two in ches wide I t w as se en all over t he body

.
as might be e xpecte d as in an y othe r girl of her

,
a g e exc e pt that wh e n S h e stood faci n g the o h

,
server the re w as a compl ete gap tw o inche s in

,
length in her Aura by the right trochanter

m aj o r T his w as so plainly visible and we ll
.
m a rked that he r mothe r notice d it immedi

,
atel y I nste ad of th e e dge s of t he Aura curv

.
ing in as in th e last two cases the y we re quite

, ,
straight as if a piece of the Aura had bee n

,
’
sawn out T his space could only be see n as S h e

.
stood facing an d was pe rfectly invisible wh e n

’
she turned side wa ys The blue C C band was . . .
even all ove r the body but if s he stood side ,
ways there was a lig ht patch ove r t he e mpty

space Unfortunately her family have remove d
.
to S cotland so that it h as been impossible to in

spect he r a g ain .
Anothe r very inte resting c ase h as just bee n
seen in which there w as a peculi ar ch ange in
,
the Aura re acting under a l ight c arm i ne screen

quite diff erent to a ny thing that has before been
observed .
—
CA SE 2 7 F D a ged thirty a single wom an
. . .
, ,
w h o h a s all the s y mptoms of ulcer of the duod e
num w as inspected August 1 9 1 0 H er Aura

, , .
reached about nine inches round her head and

trunk a s she faced the observer a nd gradu ally
, ,
na rrowed towa rds the knees from whence it

descended downwards unaltered T h e I nner .
Aura tw o a nd a half inches w ide w as so dis

, ,
tinct that it could be seen without intervention

Of a speci a l screen From the sixth to the tenth
.
costa l c a rtil a ges on the left it looked coarsely

granul a r a nd very distinct T his gra nular ap .
p ea r a n ce extended over the front of her body ,
as could be seen whe n she grad uall y turned

sideways When standing in this position there
.
w as nothing unusual in the Aur a s either in the
front or back When examined with the li g ht

.
carmine screen B the I nner Aura as she stood

, ,
facing from the seventh to the ninth costal

,
cartilages entirely disappeared a nd against the ,

been obse rve d save by the side of the trunk .
The rea son of this is very evident the Au ra is

,
n o t SO dee p as either at the back or front of the
body when t he patie n t is standing sideways .
T h e thickness of the A u ra e ith e r in the front or

be hind or both will hide all traces of these v a
, ,
ca nt spaces apart from any alte rati ons i n the

de ns ity I n like mann er incre ase of density or
.
O pacity O f t h e Aura will ca u s e the S p aces to be
invisible A suitable background is one condi

.
tion absolutely necessary for the ir perce pti on ,
and the background p a r exc ellence fo r this pur

pose is a dead black one ; light coloured ones
a r e absolute l y useless . T aking all things into
consideration for eve ry one of these spaces seen ,
it is e xtremely likel y that a number exist which

a re invisible .
I n Ch a pter I I I i t w as shown that the Auric

fo rces proceed from the body in direct lines at
right angles If from any cause a circumscribed
.
are a be dera nged in some manner so th a t no

Auric force emanates from it while all round
,
this affected are a the he althy part is e mitting

Auric force in th e ordinary ma n ner the re will
,
be fo rmed a cylindrical void space with its long

AURAS IN D ISE A SE 2 01
axis at right an gle s to t he body I nstead of .
the derange d are a being separated from the

,
healthy po rti on of the body by a S harp line

of de marcation ve ry fre quently there will be
,
found a zon e more o r l e ss aff e cte d incre asing in

inte nsity as the y a re farthe r from t he diseased
spot i e from ze ro until the y have atta ined
, . .
, ,
the ir natural intensity Th e re sult of this con

.
dition will be t he formation of a space conical

in S h ape an d le ss void as t h e space e xpands
, .
T his peculiar formation causes t h e space to be

much more difficult of pe rce ption unle ss it has ,
a large are a as in Case 2 5 T h e e ffe cts upon

, .
th e C C ba n d have alre ad y b ee n de scrib e d

. . .
I n conne cti o n with these insta n ce s anoth e r

example (Case 2 8 ) has lately bee n inspected ,
which is most interestin g an d up to t he prese nt

u nique I t is a case of herpe s zoste r in which
.
so l a rge a surface was affec ted that it became ,
extremely improbable that the Aura would be

wholly absen t from the area Of t he rash We .
we re prepare d to fin d somethin g abn o rmal but ,
what shap e or fo rm th e abnormal would take

w e we re quite unable to surmise Unf o rt u .
na tel y the patient s Aura wa s not well m arked

’
,
hardly up to t he ave rage in size although easily ,
S een .
Wh e n he extended his arm t he Aura adj a ,
cent to t h e rash presente d a most remark able

a ppe arance for it looke d honeycombe d with
,
vacuol e s below the arm and beside the trunk .
At first this phenomenon w as h a rd to expl ain ,
but t he difficulty vanish e d when it was remem

be re d that t h e line s of Auric forces a re at right
angle s to t h e body a n d that in this instance,
some of them would come from the trunk ,
oth e rs from the a rm and others a gain from the ,
axilla all at difie re n t angles so that they would

,
be c o n ti n u ally i n te rs e ctn in the vacuum thus ,
giving rise to t h e appearance of cells T his .
e ffe ct would als o be increased by a more or less
h e althy Aura both in fron t an d at t h e back of

,
t h e pathological porti o n .
—
CA S E 2 8 F F twe nty two ye ars of age A
. . .
,
- .
shoemake r Whe n a boy of about seven ye ars

.
of age ha d h ip dise ase an d for years suff ered

, ,
fro m absce sse s cause d by piece s of dead bone .
H e had been op e rated up o n s e veral times but ,
for t h e last fiv e ye ars has e njoyed very good

h e alth n d h s had n o ailm e n t of a n y kind for
, a a
e ntly bec ause of the healthy portion obscu ring
the unhe a lthy .
When he again faced the Observer the Aura

was normal a round his he ad but as soon as he ,
raise d his arms the appe a r ance just under his

,
right arm and a little w ay down the trunk w as

ve ry pecu liar I t w as granular but not as dis
.
,
t inct l y so a s is usu a l when the Aur a a ssum es

,
this form Against a bl ack b ackground it gave

.
t h e appearance of a haze hone ycombed with
dark holes T he effect produced is most diffi

.
cult to describe and the diminution of the in

,
tensity of the granular pa rt of the Aura seemed

e vidently d ue to the loss of subst a nce Besides .
which the O uter a nd I nner Auras seemed to be

completely amalga m ated S ince not the slightest ,
S ign of diff erenti a tion could be discerned Be .
low this disorga ni zed portion the Aura seemed ,
to h ave rega ined its proper condition for a short

space O pposite the i lium from the level of the
.
,
crest downwards for about five inches the Aura

, ,
showed a ve ry similar state to that describe d ,
only less well marke d T his was ove r the for .
merl y dise ase d joint .
C AS E 2 9 F ig 2 3 D an unm arri ed wom an

,
- . . .
,
AURAS IN D IS EASE
FI G . 23 . Ab
- n or m a l sh a e of
p Au
ra w i th
g
ra dua l re o c very . A d rk p tch a a
on th e r i ght S i d e .
2 08 T HE HUMAN ATMOS PH E R E
it continued of the s a me bre adth As she stood .
S idew a ys the re w as n o pec uli a rity of the Aura ,
either at the front or a t the back When the .
blue C C b a nd w as employed trans ve rs e ly

. .
there w as a dark qu adril a teral patch over the

right h ypochondri ac region I t commence d at .
the median line of the body the upper e dge of ,
which w as level with t he xiphoid c artilage and ,
the lower m a rgin of the body T his Space w as .
several S h a des d a rker than the remainder of t he

C C b a nd a nd its lines of demarc ation we re
. .
,
sh arpl y defin ed Upon palp ation there w as

.
,
found tende rness of the live r a nd one spot two , ,
inches a bove the umbilicus a nd tw o inches to

the right of the medi a n line w as excess1ve ly ,
tender to deep pressure Although susp ected .

,
no m align a nt tumour w as m a de out The pa .
tient however imp roved greatl y under trea t

, ,
ment .
I n O ctober 1 9 08 anothe r inspection w as

, ,
m ade T h e Aura w as unch ange d e xcept o n

.
,
the right side H ere it did not curve in so

.
far a nd b e gan to widen before it contract e d

,
pe rm a nently T he fin a l n a rrowing occu rred o n

.
the s ame level a s it did on the left side v iz , .

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AURAS IN DIS EA SE 209
about the middle of the thigh S ix months .
l ate r the inner curvature of t he Aura on the

right side could still be plainly see n but it w as ,
considerably less othe rwise the re was no altera

,
tion A S the Aura appeared to be gradually

.
returning to its natural S hape it was inspected ,
again in October 1 9 09 T he patient had been

, .
suffering from a re turn of indige stion for about

six we eks had been under treatment for three
, ,
and was much improved The sh ape of the Aura

.
,
as she faced the observer had become quite s ym

,
metrical o n the tw o sides of the body but the ,
affected a rea w as very diff erent in appea rance

from any othe r pa rt .
T h e altered portion Of the Aura commenced

about the level of the xiphoid cartil a ge and
“
reached to a S hort distance above the crest of

t he ilium . The Aura in this p art h a d a dull
l ook w as co arse in texture a nd not so blue as
, ,
in the hea lthy p art whe n it w as examined with

,
out any screen o r through a light one I t was

, .
bounded above and below by streaks of a lighte r

sh ade proceeding straight from the body T hese
, .
diff ered from ord inary rays in their opacity .
When seen through a dark carmine scree n t he ,

210 T HE H UM A N AT M OS PH E R E
I nn e r Aura was n oticed all round th e body two
inches wide .
I t w as fairly line at ed a n d the E th e ric D oubl e

w as well m a rke d a s a d ark space one eighth of
‘
-
an inch bro a d I n t h e aff ecte d area t h e I nner

.
Aura w as not so wi de had no striation and, ,
w a s coarse ly gra n ulate d T his showe d that

.
while the Aura had regained its shape it had ,
not assumed its prope r te xture With the B lue .
C C band the quadrilateral space in t h e hyp o

. .
ch o n d riac re gion w as still darke r than t h e r e
maining part of t h e band but the difference ,

-
was not pron oun ce d T h e exte nsion of t he

.
ban d on t h e right side re mained of a darke r

h ue than did t h e l eft e xte n sion but h e re too , , ,
the colours were more e ve n Fig 2 3 shows th e . .
gradual improvem e nt in t h e shap e of the Aura

from time to tim e .
S om e months later this pati e nt w a s again ex

a min e d as s h e w a s in fair h e alth
, H e r Aura .
w a s natural in si z e all o ve r h e r b od y and even ,
o n b oth side s .
H owe ver it had n ot re gain e d e n tire l y its

,
proper te xture by t h e right si de H e re it was .
coarse an d opaque but be g i n n i n g to be striate d

, ,
212 THE HUMAN AT MOS PH ER E
mit the Aura both in front and a t th e back to
, ,
be investigated a great difficulty presents itself

, ,
as the re is no natural standard of measureme nt

fo r any increase or diminution in the dime n
sions .
Cons equently a llowance must be m ade for the

gre a t va riation met with in healthy subjects ,
and it is necessa ry to de pe nd to a large extent

upon experience and to ment a ll y comp a re the
,
Aura th a t is being inspec ted with one known to

be he a lth y S peaking genera ll y no grea t tr ou
.
,
ble wil l be experienced when de a ling with Auras

of m a les a nd young girls before puberty be ,
c a use they are S i m i l a r a ll over the body With .
women a nd girls of fou rteen yea rs a nd upwa rds

the case becomes more complicated and a st and ,
ard becomes essenti a l T he best one although

.
,
it too is Open to m any objections th a t w e c an

, , ,
devise is to t ake some ratio h aving the widest

,
p art of the Aura a t the side of the t runk a s a

unit in which c ase a comp a rison of the breadth
,
o f the Aur a either in front or a t the b a ck of a

,
p atient with th a t of the side will result in a

,
fraction I n hea lth y a dult women the figu re

.
for the Aura in front of the bod y w il l rarely ex

AUR A S IN D I S EAS E 213
ceed two -thirds a n d in no case h ave w e seen it

,
so large as one h a lf The dorsal Aura unless

- .
,
t h e woma n has a neurotic t e nd e nc y ra rely ,
re aches to two-thirds of the ple ural Aura ; cer

t ain ly any higher figure is pathologic a l I n .
girls havin g a transitional Aura t he d ifficulty is

vastly in cre ased and special allowance must be
,
made according to the progre ss of t he develop

men t of t he Aura So far w e h ave ne ver seen
.
,
any dimin ution of the Aura (which can be rec

o gn ize d as such ) either at the back or front but
, ,
w e a re e xp e cti n g an y time to be a bl e to observe
this modification .
Almost without exception the O uter Aura ,
shows no marked incre ase either of the whole

,
or a l a rge portion at the back save when th e ,
patient is neurotic T he conve rse by no me an s

.
holds good because in a fair numbe r of subjects

,
w ho have a neurotic tend e ncy no e nl a rgement ,
of the dorsa l Aura has been discove red Th ere .
a re two m a in va rieties of the augment a tion of
the dorsa l Aura and a lthough the division m ay

,
seem to be an artificial one yet it represents ,
quite differe nt cases .
The first varie ty is wh e n the Aura c om e s

down from the h e ad and is wide at the b ack ,
and does not contract fully until it reaches at

least the lower half of the thighs while in the ,
second va riety the Aura commences to increase

below t he shoulder becomes bro adest at the
,
lumbar region and curves inwa rds abruptl y a

little beneath the n ates I t must be full y un
.
de rst ood th a t this incre a se is rel a tive to the

bre a dth of the Aura at th e sides of the trunk ,
and the ratio is more than two thirds I n - .
a bout a dozen c ases of h yste ria in women a nd

i
girls w h o have been inspecte d a ll w thout any
, ,
exception showed the peculiar shaped Aura of

,
the second va riety ; and this variety seems to be

a lmost if not entirel y confin e d to this temper
, ,
a ment consequently it may be considered to be

,
the speci a l fe ature of the hys terica l Aura

T he Auras of the first division are cert a inly
less common th a n the second variety a nd m ay ,
occu r in seve ral distinct ailments We have .
onl y a few exa mples .
1 B. .a m arried wom an fo rty-two years old

, , ,
w ho h a d both her ov aries removed six teen ye ars

ago w as inspected in 1 9 08 As she stood facing
, .
the observer her Aura w as seen to be seven a nd

,
21 6 T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH ER E
It has bee n notice d th a t ne a rly every one of
the p atients w h o h ave an abnorm ally wide dor
sal Aura also have a bro ad front al one
, .
T h e next ste p for consideration is the

study of the partial e nlargement of the Aura .
T his always occurs in preg n a n t women but is ,
only tempora ry and must be rega rde d as purel y

,
physiologic a l I n fact as will be see n here

.
,
after th e enl a rgem e nt of the Aura in front of

,
t h e abdomen a nd breasts constitutes one of t h e

signs of pregn ancy Exc e pt in this condition .
,
the p arti a l incre ase of t h e Aura doe s not seem

to be fre que nt for w e have only noticed one ,
marked c ase T h e appe a rance w as so ext rao r

.
dina ry th a t we thought there must have been

some mistake so inspection was repe a ted a few
,
days afterwards with the s a me result .
—
C ASE 3 0 Fig 24 A woman fifty -eight ye ars
, . .
,
of age rather sto ut a n d subj ect to a tt acks of

,
bronchitis but who loses a ll cough du ring the

,
interva ls wa s inspected M arch 1 9 09 S he h ad

, , .
be en suff erin g from indigestion constip ation ,
and flatulence No o rganic mischief could be

.
found and these s ymptoms v anished under

,
t re atment .
AURAS IN D IS EAS E
FI G . fl an
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er
y a bno rma l sha e of
p Aur
a.
220 THE HUM AN AT M OS PH E R E
stances in which an a lteration of size h as been
,
observe d it has been accompanied by a modi

,
ficat io n of textu re a lso so that the tw o conditions

,
will have to be considered toge ther and since ,
this is the c ase it will be convenient to make a

,
fe w prelimin a ry rem a rks concerning the ch a nge

in texture that the I nner Aura is likely to un
de r go . I t must be borne in mind that the
I nner Aura when he a lthy consists of an ex
, ,
ceedingly fine granul a r h az e and seems to be

perforated by some force giving it a stri a ted
appea rance T his Aura va ries ve ry slightly in
.
breadth by any p a rt of the body so that it ,
is extremely probable th at it is entirely the

product of the No 1 Auric force ( p a ge 1 01 )
.
e m a n a ting from the body and a cting upon the
ether T his force is evidently very constant in

.
qu antity a nd is onl y able to exert its energy ,
within a short ra nge I ts n ature is unknown .

,
but it is most likely distinct from th at origi

n ating the O uter Aura .
Whene ve r there is any dep a rture from he a lth ,
whether general or loc a l this force is li able to ,
be deranged and consequentl y a modific ation

,
of the Aura will take place T h e disturb ance .

AURAS IN D I S EASE 22 1
always i nduces a chan ge in t h e texture of t he

Aura which can usually be pe rce ive d eithe r
,
with o r with out t h e in te rve nti on of a light

s p e ct a ura n in e scre e n but fo r t h e c o mpl e te re so
,
l ut io n of this alte rati o n it is abso l ute ly n ece s

,
sary to e mp loy a d ark carmin e screen T he .
earliest morbid chan ge that is n otice able is t h e ,
loss of striation . E ve n s h ou l d this n o t quite

disappe ar it will become fai n t and e xtre me ly
,
difficult to de te ct .
T o g e th e r with th is wa nt of lineation it will ,
be obse rve d that t h e e xce e di n gly fin e granul e s

composing th e Aura in h e alth h ave be e n re
place d by othe rs which are coarse an d opaque .
Apparently each of these large gra n ule s is

,
fo rme d by the amalgam ation of seve ral small

ones .
T he si z es of these gra nules va ry ve ry much l n

diff e rent cases but the re is ge ne rally found to
,
be a p redominant numb e r of o n e siz e which

gives a distinctive aspect to t he p art affecte d .
T h e y may be conve ni e n tly classifie d by t h e

te rms Fin e Me dium an d Co a rse g ranule s as
, , ,
the case may be .
With t h e appe ara nc e of the se gra n ule s all

structure is lost T he force which ori gi nates
.
t h e A u ra is usually pre sent and re m a ins una l
t e re d in strength a s is shown b y the bre a dth of

,
t h e A u ra re maining constant When once the

.
g ranular ap p e aranc e is present a long time ,
may e lapse before the Aura will return to its

p risti n e state An e xample may be cited of a
.
lady wh o showe d this peculi a rity seven weeks

afte r havin g a stiff n e ck .
N e a rly five mon ths aft e r her neck w as ex a m

in e d it was agai n inspected
, Wh e n observed
.
in t h e ordin a ry manne r there w as a slight p a tch

p roceeding upwards from the lowest part of the
neck T his patch at th e b ase w as about one
.
and a h a lf inches wide and two in he ight

, .
T h e distal margin consisted of a number of

points o n e high e r than the other until the
highe st w as re ach e d ; on t h e othe r side of this -
pe ak it be cam e lowe re d in t he sam e manne r .
With a li g ht re d sp ect aur an ine scree n the spot

l ooke d fin ely granulate d p reviously having bee n
,
much c oarse r Wh e n t he C C bands we re e m

. . .
ployed t he blue a n d t h e g ree n were darker on

,
the ri g ht side whil e t h e ye ll ow was e ven on t he

,
two si d e s .
sent T his one sided diminution of the I nner
.
-
Aura is more diagnostic of epilepsy th a n the

narrowi ng of t he O ute r Aura which is much
more conspicuous and w as first discovered I t
, .
is extremel y probabl e that t h e diminution of

t h e Au ra really comm e nce s in t h e median line ,
bo th in the front an d at t he back N ev erth e .
le ss w e have found no m e thod of verifying this

,
supposition .
Cases in which t he I nner Aura is altere d lo

,
cally are more fre quen t tha n those in which the

,
whole or a large part of it o n o n e side is de

ranged As might be e xp ected so me situations
.
,
are more liabl e to be aff ecte d than oth e rs O n e .
very common plac e wh e re to find the Aura

modified is at t h e back ove r th e lower lumbar
,
re gi ons a n d sa crum slightly varyin g in posi

,
tion with d iff eren t women an d pre senting t he ,
usual granular app e arance when se e n through

a dark carmine screen Wh e n this condition .
occu rs t h e invariabl e tal e told is that t he pa ,
tient suff e rs pain o r at l e ast a gre at dea l of dis

comfort in t h e back during menstrual periods .
As th ese occur at re gular sh ort intervals there ,
is ofte n n o t s uffici e n t tim e fo r th e Aura to re

AU RA S IN D IS E A S E 225
sume its n atural state befo re a fresh attack of

p ai n takes place We h ad n otice d lon g before
.
w e we re abl e t o d iscern t h e alte ration of t h e
texture that the C C ba n d ve ry fre que ntly

, . .
gave a d ark patch in this position an d w e we re ,
greatly puzzl e d as to h ow it w as produce d .
T his dark patch in the C C ba n d does n ot . .
occur in girls befo re pube rty no r in women ,
wh o have passe d the ir grand climacte ric and ,
disappea rs during pre gnancy A s an a dditiona l .
proof the youn g lady late ly refe rre d t o ne ver

,
h ad any pain in this re gi on durin g mens trua

tion and the C C band d id not show t h e
, . .
slightest change in c olour Howeve r with he r .

,
the C C ba n d sh owe d a small light co l oure d

. .
spot about o n e an d a half inches in diamete r

,
over the first lumbar spin e .
When questi on ed whethe r she ha d any pain

or tendern ess in that place she replied that ,
there had bee n no pain o r tenderness fo r t he

l ast fort ni ght but pre vi o usly she had h ad a
,
good deal and once t he pain was s o acute that

,
she h ad to go to bed T his is another instance

.
of the lengthy period taken by th e Aura to be

come no rmal afte r being g ranular .
C a n t h e I nn e r Aura en large l ocall y is a ' ”
questi on that has bee n de cide d by observation

up on pre gn ant women in th e a ffirmative a n d ,
under th e se circumstances t h e change is physi

o logical Wh e ther it d oe s t h e sam e in unhealthy
.
conditi o ns is quite anoth e r proble m and o n e by,
no m e ans easy of s o lution I n the first place

.
when t h e I nne r Au ra has b ecome granular as

sh own through t h e dee p carmin e screen this ,
granular p o rtion of t h e Aura is ofte n wider

than t h e healthy B ut does the granulati o n
.
take place in the I nne r Aura o n ly o r does the ,
O uter partak e of t h e chan g e 3
T h e structure of t h e O ute r Aura must als o

be tak e n int o c o nsid e rati o n I n h e alth t h e
.
part l yi n g just outside t h e I nner Aura has

large r granule s tha n t h e m o re distant parts .
T h e diff ere n t siz e d gra n ul e s imp e rc e ptibly grad

u a te int o o n e a n oth e r Wh e n any l ocal disturb
.
ance arises th ose granul e s adj ace nt t o the I nn e r

,
Aura s ee m to be similarl y aff ected but not to

t h e same e xt e nt . As t h e I nn e r Aura be co me s
derange d th e re is a p am p ass u alte rati on o f t he
’
O ut e r as ca n fre qu e n tly be d e t e rmin e d by

,
chromatic chan ges sh own in the C C band over . .

sh ape or si ze to any grea t extent ; the chief
morbid ch a nges show themselves in a lterations
of the texture I t is appa rent from the c ase s
.
which h ave been qu oted th at variations in ,
sh ape a nd size of the O uter Aura are more fre

quent and extensive while th e structura l modi
,
ficatio ns are ei th e r slight or so de lic a te in th e ir

n a ture a s to be almost imperceptibl e .
I t is impossible t o sa y much conce rning the

colour of the Au ra as the prep a ration of the
,
eye s for the m echanical m e th od of pe rception

of the Aura re nde rs it impossible to appreciate
a ny
g re a t v a r i a tion in range o
“
f colo ur Th
. e
colours a re for the most part limited to blue

and grey or the admixture s of the two in dif
,
fe ren t propo rti o ns . T e mperam e nt a nd m e ntal

powers ra ther than any te mporary c h a nges of
,
bodily h e alth see m t o be re presented by th e hue

,
of the Aura For the sa ke of anal ysis w e h a ve

.
divided the c o l o urs i n to three sections T he .
first cl ass c o ntains pe ople with blue Auras ; t he

sec o nd those w h o have Auras blue m ix ed with ,
m o re o r less grey ; and l a stly those w h o have

perfectl y grey Auras T he following is the re
.
sult of the first hundred c ases inspected I t is .

A URAS IN D IS EAS E 22 9
onl y righ t to me nti on that the propo rtio n of

h e althy p e rsons is much large r than o ur sub
se que n t inspe cti ons have contained .
1 . Blue S e ri e sFo rty c ase s

. .
N 0 i n d ividu a l be l ow som e ab ove , t he
ave ra ge in men tal p owe r .
2 . B lue with more o r le ss g re y S e ries

The ,
.
T hirty six cas e s i n clu d i n g :

-
,
O n e case of h e mipl e gia .
T w o e pil e ptics .
O n e case of m e n in g itis H e r mental .
p owe rs see m to be recove red afte r

thre e ye ars .
3 . G re y S eri e s . S e ve nte e n case s including,
Tw o ecce ntric p e ople .
S ix epil e ptics .
O ne ge ne ral pa ra lysis .
T hree m e ntally dull .
Of the seven re m aining patie nts no note w as

made of the colour of the ir Auras .
T his tabl e sh ows c oncl usive ly that t h e o w n

e rs of the blue Auras are t h e most m e ntally fit .
A g rey Aura seems to indicate a de fici e ncy

of t he intellectual faculty if congenita l but it ,
re m a ins unce rt ain whether t he l oss of bra in

p owe r through dise ase c a uses th e Aura to be
c ome grey although this is prob a bl e
, .
I t is nec e ss a ry to add th a t when t h e Aura is

,
said to be blue etc th e re will, as a rule be no

, .
, ,
bri g ht c olou rs visibl e b ecause the haze is faint

,
and almost colourl e ss .

the modificati o ns are most plainly to be seen .
I n orde r t o obtain a full solution of the v a ri

ous problems a long pe ri od of ha rd work and
such a large numbe r of case s are required
as is far b e yon d o ur capacity an d resource s .
T h e utmost w e can hop e t o d o is t o give s o m e

,
slight assis tance to oth e r worke rs o n this

subject .
Ge nerally it is inadv isabl e if not impos sibl e

, ,
t o e xamine by this me th od t h e whole of the

body at a single sitting e sp ecially if C C
, . .
bands of several c o l ours be e mpl oye d as the ,
e ye s of t h e observe r bec ome tire d and inca

p a b l e o f appr e ciati n g slight diff e r e nces in t h e
shades of c o l o urs Fo r t h e same re ason if the his

.
to ry of t he patie nt be kn own to a ce rtai n e xtent ,
greate r and earlier atte ntion can be give n to

t h e pa rts of th e bod y most likely t o be a ff ected .
Again when t h e sh a pe a nd the ge ne ral char

,
act e r ist ics of t h e Aura a r e bei n g i n ve stiga t e d

,
a n abn o rmality ma y ofte n be d et e ct ed which
will point t o t h e p ositio n of some de rangement .
T h e following re marks u n l e ss otherwis e st a ted

, ,
refer to the blue complementary coloured ba nd

as in previous chapte rs .
C OM PL E M ENTAR Y C O LO URS IN D IS EASE 2 33
Wh e n t h e C C band is employe d ve rtic a lly

. .
upon the th o rax and abd omen of health y me n

an d childre n th e c ol our w ill remain e ve n
,
through out its wh ole length un l e ss th e re ,
sh ould be any irre gularity of p igm e n tati on in

t h e skin .T his state ment n e ith e r a p pli e s t o
g irls ab o ve t h e age o f p u b e rty n o r t o adult ,
women because in this class of c ases th e band

—
,
will have at o n e time the col our e ve nly dist rib

”
ut ed thro ughout whil e at an o th e r it w ill be

,
darke r a sh o rt distan ce below the umbilicus .
Th e place wh e re this cha n ge is m ost promi

n e nt l y seen is ab o ut two o r three inch e s ab ove
t h e p ube s T his m odificati on will be fo u n d t o

“
coincide with t he sexual functions .
O n e of thre e thi n g s is signifie d by t h e ve rti

cal C C band be in g m on ochromatic on t he
. .
abdom e n of women Th e most comm o n ca use .
is that th e woman h as finish e d h e r last men

s t r ual p eri od at l e ast tw o o r thre e da ys and ,
that she doe s not expect h e r next before another

four o r five days If the woman reckons its
.
commence me nt within this tim e mos t prob ably ,
h e r p e ri o d will be fo u n d to be delayed A sec .
ond ca use is amenorrhoea and a third ea rl y ,

pre gna n cy At the approach of t h e m enstrual
.
pe riod the C C band will bec ome darkened

. .
l o w down at first slightl y but incre a singly as

, ,
t h e tim e draws near Th e colour graduates

.
from the lighter t o t he d arker tints imper

ce p t ibl y with out any definite line of de marca
tion so that c o mparis on is be st made betwee n
,
distant parts of t h e band T his gradual shad .
ing is of great imp o rtance as it ofte n se rves to ,
distinguish betwe en t h e shade of th e Aura due

to sexual functions a n d that which is due to
,
dera n ge me nts of th e abdominal o rgan s .
D arkening of the C C ba n d in t h e lower p a rt

. .
of th e abd omen from other causes will c e rtainly

be an insuperabl e impedime n t t o the calculation
of the me nstrual p e ri od If the patie n t be the
.
mother of childre n it will freque ntly be n eces

,
sary to make som e all owa n ce fo r t he pigme u

t at io n o n this p a rt of t h e b o dy but gene rall y ,
no great difficulty will arise from this cause if ,
due care h a s been take n A n inte re sting case

.
in c on necti on with this subj ect is that of a

woman thirty e ight ye ars of a g e wh o showe d
-
,
an incip ie nt darke ning of th e C C band just . .
above t he pubes Wh e n info rm e d th at sh e

.
be found that the b a nd is sufficientl y wide in
most c ases for the obse rver to see whether there
is any difference in colour on the tw o l ateral
halves of the b ody and roughl y to determine
,
their position . S ubsequently t h e tra nsv e rse

band can be use d to make a ll the deta ils
clear T his l a tter band h as a gre at adva ntage
.
over the vertic a l b a nd fo r during the gre a ter

,
p art of the time of obse rva tion only the centra l

are a is be ing used which is less difficult to see
and more free from errors of obse rvation than
when the ends are employed C a se 2 1 i s in
.
structive a nd serves as an e xample When the

.
C C band w as employed ve rtically down the

. .
medi a n line of t he thorax a nd a bdomen ,
the left side of the former w as seen to be lighter

than the right for a considera ble length as the
,
higher margin of th e light p o rtion w as the

uppe r part of t he mamma while t h e nethe r
,
border w as the l ower p art of the ste rnum T he

.
vertical b a nd sh owed also that the two shades

of col our were separa ted by a sharp line of de
ma rca tio n which corresponded with the median
line of the b ody Lowe r down t he band on the
.
abdome n there was a small patch of a different

C OMPL E M ENTARY C O L O UR S IN D I S EAS E 2 37
shade on the e xtre me rig ht e d ge a little way

above the umbilicus T his gave a useful indi
.
cation fo r furth e r in vestigation with the trans

verse C C band the results of which have bee n
. .
,
de scribe d elsewhere .
When t h e observe r begins to e xamine t he .
spine with the C C ha nd h e will find it ad

”
. .
,
v a nt a ge o us t o d ivid e t h e i n sp e cti o n i n t o two
parts as t he band is not sufficiently l on g to

,
cove r t he wh o le sp ace from th e neck to th e

sacrum sim ulta n e ously I t will als o be adv is
.
able to n otice p articularly t h e col ou r of the ,
skin ove r t h e ve rte bral spine s as fre que n tly ,
the se parts have a diff e re n t h ue from t h e a dja

ce n t p orti on of t he b ody T his may be quite .
a natural pigme ntation o r t h e alte rati on of ,
the colour may be produce d by pre ssure of t h e

clothes Directly t h e obse rve r l ooks at t h e
.
spine he will m ost like ly de tect some alte ration

,
of the shade of t h e C C ban d sh ould the re. .

,
e xist any abn o rmality Th e c o mm o n e st abn o r

malit ies discl ose d by this ba n d on t h e back a re ,
patches on the spinal c olumn itse lf e ither ,
li ghte r o r darke r as the case m ay be T hey

, .
may be situated up on any pa rt throughout its

238 THE H UM A N AT M OS PH E R E
l e n gth Howeve r the most fre que nt place is
.
,
j ust ove r the l owe r vertebrae and t h e sacrum in

women where the band is c onst a ntly da rker
, .
T h e r e as o n for this has already been st a ted .
T w o o th er ve ry like ly p ositi ons fo r altera ti o n in

c ol our a re t o be found ove r the last d o rsal a nd
first lumbar ve rte brae and over t he se ve nth
,
ce rvical and upp e r dorsal vertebra With the .
e xc e pti o n of t h e sacral patch th e se are a s often,
light as dark and it is not unusu a l t o fin d o n e

,
o r m o re patch es of e ach va ri e ty occurring si

mu l t a n e o u s l y .
An other fairly c omm on abnormality is th e

appearance of a light o r a d a rk streak by the
side of t h e spinal column the spine itself re ,
main in g n atura l .
T h e sp o ts a re inva ri a bly associ a ted with pain ,
o r te n de rne ss n ot n ece ssarily just at the time

,
of inspection as se ve ral we e ks e ve n may have

,
e lapse d b efo re t h e s e pai n marks e ntire l y vanish

- .
Th e sam e cas e m e n ti o n e d ( on page 2 2 2 ) had

a small li g ht p atch ove r t h e sec ond and third
lumbar ve rte brae an d o n n o other pa rt of the
bo dy T h e p atie n t de clare d that sh e h ad had
.
no pain th e re for a fo rtn igh t but previously fo r,

stood facing the observer the Aura w as ten
inches wide a round her head the s a me width ,
by t he side of the trunk but it suddenly curved ,
inwards arri v1 ng at its minimum a little below

the level of the pubes from whence it proceed ed
,
downwa rds eve nly The outer m a rgin w as not

.
very plainly marked When she turned side .
ways t h e A ura bulged out to about eight

,
inches in width a t the lumb a r regi on and ,
curved inwa rds rapidl y to a short dist a nce be

low the buttocks where it bec a me contracted
,
and continued downwards evenl y All down .
the front of the trun k and limbs it w as about

four inches wide T he I nner Aura w as a bout
.
two and a half inches broa d over the bod y .
T here were fa int ra ys proceeding upwa rds from

each sh oulde r and anoth e r ran ro m the lower
,
right ribs o utwards O ver t h e lower lumbar

.
vertebra a nd s acrum the I nne r Aura w as gran

ular and the adjacent part of t he O uter was
,
simil a rly affected When the C C b a nd w as

. . .
used over the thorax a nd abd omen the colour

w as even a ll over ; on the b a ck the b a nd showed
a strip of lighter colour near to a nd para llel

with th e spine re aching from the third to the
,
T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH ERE
25.
— Hy ste ri ca l Aur a in a wo m an . W i de
r
by the t un k co n tr i
a ct n
g sh a r l
py ,
a n d n ar r ow by the le gs .
C O MPL EM ENTARY C O L OURS IN D IS EA S E
FI G . 27 .
— T w o di s c o l o re d at
p ches o n the ba c k
see n by the d
ai of th e C C
. . ba n d . Uppe r
o ne li ght , an d l o we r da r k .
me rous am ong hyste rical ne rvous or excitable,
girls and w om en .
D irectly t h e i n sp e ction of t h e ve rtical C C . .
band has b ee n conclude d an d after having thus

,
ascertaine d as far as p ossible t h e position of any

local abnormality t h e tra n sverse band will
,
supplem e nt all th e informati on that can be

gain e d by this me th od of t h e use of bands I t .
wi ll have enabl e d t h e o bs e rve r t o e xamine t h e
two side s of t h e b ody a n d at t h e sam e time to

,
n otice whe th e r o n e of its e xte n si on s has be e n

aff e cte d Ge n e rally t h e ba n d will be foun d t o
.
be wid e e n o ugh to i n clude all t h e aff ecte d are a ,
but occasi onally two observati ons will be re

quire d T his stage of t h e inspe cti on is th e o n e
.
at which to de te rmin e wh e th e r t h e d isc o lore d

patch is spread over th e wh ol e bre adth of th e
body or o nly ove r a p o rti on ; also t o dete rmin e
,
wh e ther it is situate d o n o n e side of the me di an

line or crosses it ; o r wh e th e r it is on ly a small
,
spot surroun de d by t h e unalte re d C C ba n d . . .
Wh e n a large are a is chron ic a lly aff ected it ,
usually has a d e e p e r h ue but e xc epti ons a re ,
not ra re Fo r e xa mpl e se e Cas e 2 1 Althou gh

. .
any part of t h e bod y may have a large patch of

C OMPL EM ENTARY C OL OURS IN D ISEAS E 249
alte red C C y et this is met with m ore fre

. .
,
que noy in ce rtain positions tha n in oth e rs A

. .
common situation is th e hypoch ondriac with

half th e epigastric re gi ons The follow ing c ase .
is a ve ry good illustration of th e above re mark .
—
CAS E 3 2 A childl ess woman aged thirty
.
, ,
w h o has bee n marri e d s o me years S h e has .
s uffe re d for ove r twelve m o nths fro m pai n in
the stomach which is incre ase d afte r a meal

,
and often is only re lieved by vomiting S h e is .
constan tly sick suffers from pyrosis but neve r

, ,
has had any h a mat emesis T he dre ad of p a in .
prevents her from takin g p rope r food co nse ,
que ntly she has becom e emaci ated weak and , ,
ana mic .
From these and other symptoms we thought

th e re was an ulcer of the stom ach but under ,
treatment she gradually improved and became

convalescent Wh e n she was examin ed in
.
April 1 9 09 it was found that h e r Aura w as

, ,
blue and there was n o abnormality in shape ,
except that it was rathe r small Around h er .
he ad it was a little smaller in width than he r

sh oulders and as she stood facing th e obse rver
, ,
be low the arms with h e r h ands placed behind ,

her head it w as e ight inches wide by the side
,
of th e trunk coming down to about the middle

,
of t h e thighs before it permanently n a rrowed to

ab out tw o and a h a lf inches From thence it
.
procee ded d ownwards w it h o ut a lt erat ion When

.
s h e turned sid e ways t h e Aura was seen t o be
ab out three inches in extent down the b ody and

limbs At t he b ack it w as a littl e ove r two
.
inche s wide wh e n level with the spine of the

scapula and th e sam e width at the most p rom
,
in e n t part of t h e nates wh e nce i t continued

,
downwa rds unaltere d B e tween t he shoulde rs

.
and th e buttocks there was a slight bulge ex

tending t o five inch e s at its widest part Rays .
emanated from diff erent pa rts of the body be

ing brighter th a n the rest of the Aura T he re
.
were tw o from the shoulders o ne on each side

,
proceeding upwards by the side of t he head ,
one from e ach flank going upwards and out

wards and on the right side another down
,
wards All these rays were visible as she stood

.
facing us but upon her turning sideways a n

,
oth e r ray w as see n projecting from the lower

lumb a r verte bra upwa rds and outwa rds .
Wh en th e C C ba n d was thrown up on he r
. .
e at solid food without discomfort S he wa s a .
second time inspected in Ma rch 1 9 1 0 The , .
O uter Aur a rem a ined the same a s desc ribed

above while the I nne r Aura w as seen to be
,
abo ut two inches all round her body As she .
stood facing the observer the I nner Aura w as ,
l ine a te d o n the right side but o n the left from

,
t h e l e ve l of the nipples t o the crest of the ilium
it w as co a rsely granul ated and when she turne d

,
sideways the granules were seen all over the l eft

side of the thorax and abdom e n between t he
same leve ls When the C C b a nd was em
. . .
ployed upon this part of the body transversely ,
the l a rge patch could be pl a inl y seen but w as , ,
perhaps not quite a s marke d a s it had be en

,
previously T here w as a slight alteration in

.
the shape the lower margin from the medi a n

, ,
line cu rved outwards following the curve of the

costa l c artilages T he left e xtension still re
.
mained d a rker th a n the right Tw o p atches .
of a ltered co lour were visible on the b ack o ne ,
by the right side of th e third and fou rth dorsal

ve rtebra H e re she h a d h ad p a in but not lat
.
,
t e rl y .
T he other spot w as on the second and thi rd

C OM PL EM ENTARY C O L O URS IN DIS EAS E 2 53
lumbar verte bra He re she always has dis

.
comfort duri n g h e r m enstrual pe riods T his .
is a fairly typ ical case as re g ards t he shape of

t h e d isc o l o re d po rti o n of t h e Au ra I t s ee ms .
curi ous that the p art of the Aura havin g an

alte re d tint sh ould be rectangular an d have ,
t h e margin s o strai g ht . S e ve ral similar instance s

have been see n O ccasi on ally h oweve r th e re is
.
, ,
a variation co nsisti n g e ither of an irre g ularity

of the e dges or e lse that th e margins fo ll ow
,
t h e o utline of t h e st o mach .
I t would be s up e rfl u o us t o e nter into d e tails

of the case of a n unmarried woman twenty ni n e -
ye a rs of a g e wh o w as brought by D r Me rrick
, .
,
as it is s o similar to t h e prec e ding case I t .
m ay be re marke d h owe ve r that wh e n she was

, ,
examine d by m e a n s of the C C ba n d the are a . .
that see me d to be aff ecte d was almost ide n

tical with that of t h e p revious case ; but the re
was o n e ve ry i mportant diffe re nce inasmuch as ,
t h e c o l o ur was li g ht e r inst e ad of darke r than

, ,
t h e re mai n d e r of t h e ba n d B ase d up on our

.
forme r state men t that t he light col oure d patche s

we re usually te m po rary w e gave as o u opi n i on
, r
th at this p atie n t s ailment was only a slight

’
2 54 THE HUM AN AT M OS PH E R E
one and were pl e ased that our dia g nosis turned
,
out to be correct A wo rd of explan ation is

.
necessary We had intentionally not inve stigate d

.
t h e case in t h e o rdin a ry manner as this had ,
bee n done by D r Me rrick and it w as looke d

.
,
up o n more o r l e ss as a test c ase f o r corrobora
tion by observation on auric changes .
He re we have two instructive cases in which

the C C band gave diametrica lly opp osite col
. .
oration although t he p oint of obse rvation w as

,
in exactl y t he same part of the body Th e ‘
reason for this diff e rence is certainly difficult to

a sce rtain but it must be surmised that some
,
alte ration existed in th e Auras of the two pa

t ie n t s too subtil e fo r o rdinary percepti o n y e t ,
which was abl e to influence the C C band . .

,
and the only suggestion w e c a n off er is that

t h e ch a nge w as a col our such a s is expl a ined in
Chapter I V .
I n the latter c ase wh a tever the a ilment may

,
have been th e re was in all probability a strong

,
nervous element at wo rk and ve ry likel y the

derangement wa s e ntirely fimctzonal I n t he
'
fo rmer c ase there w as chronic g astritis with its

c o rresponding ch ange s of tissue .
drium H ere alteration in sh ade m ay be eithe r
.
too light o r t oo dark T he p atch in this position

.
h as more frequently than not as its inn e r m a r ,
gin the me di a n line of th e b ody I ts uppe r

, .
e dge is leve l with t h e st e rn o xiphoid plane-

,
while its lower is ab out t h e leve l of the c ostal

pl a ne T he se b oundari e s are only approximate
.
and the variations fro m th e se are fre que nt .
Wh e n th e disc ol o re d patch is see n in this

p osition it in variably be token s ten de rne ss of
,
t h e live r often associate d with sup e rficial h y

,
p e ra st h e s ia G en e.rally there is m or e o r l e ss
dera ngement of th e alim e nta ry can al be yond

t h e stomach and in tw o cases w e strongly sus
,
p ec t e d duodenal ulc e r .
Another place where it is very c omm on t o

fin d disc o lorations either light o r dark m o re ,
ofte n th e l atter is in o n e of he groins

,
.
S trange t o say we have o n ly see n it onc e in

both groins at t h e sam e tim e T h e c ol ou r .
changes may be ve ry slight a nd bare ly visible ,
or th e y ma y be c onsid e rabl e and e asily seen .
T h e margins are r a rely sharp in o utline and ,
ge nerally shade o ff ve ry g radually in to t he

,
m a in c ol our of th e ba n d The patches i n dic ate

.
C OMPL EM ENTARY C O LOURS IN D IS EASE 25 7
that the patient h as tende rness and ofte n pain

in these re gi ons whil e t he darke r t h e h ue t h e
“
m ore intense th e pai n is likely to have be e n .
I t must be borne in mind that t e nd e rn e ss in

,
the groin is not always acc ompanie d by chan ge

of c o l our in t h e C C ban d Also it is n ot
. . .
,
comm on fo r these patche s to a ppe ar with out t he

patie nt h aving alte ration s in t he Aura in oth e r
parts Fo r e xample w e must refer our re ade rs
.
to Cases 3 4 an d 1 3 .
I n ste ad of these large disc o l o re d are as on ly ,
sm all on es may be visibl e I n this case th e .
patches comm on ly indicate th at t h e aff ection

causin g th e alte ration of th e tin t in t h e Aura
is e ntire ly l ocal and ofte n re ve al the situati on
,
whe re there is p ain which m ay be accomp anie d

,
by te nde rne ss .
O n e striki n g i n sta nc e of t h e accurac y of th e

fo re go ing obse rvati on is se e n in t he following
incide nt D r Merrick wish ed to see t h e Aura
. .
in this case and broug h t his p atient for e xam

inat ion . K n owing that t h e p ati e nt was suffe r
in g fro m ulc e r of t h e sto mach w e stated that ,
it was extremely probable that e ith e r the m ost

painful spot or the position of t he ulc e r c ould
25 8 T HE HUMAN ATM OS PH E R E
be detected by m e ans of th e C C band No . . .
questi on of an y so rt was aske d D r Merrick . .
w as a bl e t o s ee t h e Aura quite pl a inl y but no t ,
the discolored sp ot as he w as not accustomed to

,
the use of the C C ban d and consequently was

. .
,
not able to keep it on the right place for prac ,
tice is required to keep the coloured b and on a

limited area .
—
CAS E 3 3 T a married woman thirty yea rs
. .
, ,
of age h as bee n suffe ring from ulcer of the

,
stomach fo r a l ong tim e S h e has already been

.
in a hospita l a nd was advise d to re -enter s o ,
that she might un de rgo an operation being ,
gre atl y e maciated an d an a mic in consequence

of constant vomitin g and ha mate mesis I n ‘
s pect io n sh owed her Aura t o be well marked ,
of a bluish grey c o lour with o ut a n y admixture

of abnorm a lity T he C C band as it com
. . .
,
me nce d fa ding made a visibl e ye llo w sp ot a

, ,
little large r than a shilling o n t h e left side ,
about two and a half inche s fro m t he medi an

line a little be l ow the le ve l of the e nsiform
,
c a rtilage T his c oincided with th e m ost tender

.
and p a inful sp ot so te nder a pl ace th at t he

,
p atient would hardly allow it t o be touched .

2 60 T HE HU MAN AT M OS PH ER E
ra ised the same distance b y the side of the
,
trunk it gradually narrowe d until it h ad

,
re ache d its le ast Wi dth of four inches at quite ,
the l owe r part of the thighs whence it contin

ue d downwards a un iform breadth T he I nner .
Aura w as two and a half inch e s wide all over

t h e b o dy Wh en ex a mine d through a d a rk
.
carmin e scree n from about th e le vel of the nip

ple as far down as t he cre st of the ilium on the
,
left side this Aura w as granular very coa rse

, , ,
and if she stood sidewa ys t h e granules could

, ,
be se e n occupyin g the same space on the th o rax

“
which looke d light when the c c b and w as . .
thrown up on it T here w as besides a granular

.
patch of th e Aura o n the l ower pa rt of the

right h yp ochondrium As soon as the patie nt .
turn e d side ways it w as see n th at the Aura

,
exte nded four inches a ll down the front of the

b ody a nd in the widest p a rt at the b ack seve n
,
inches T he C C b and showed a lighte r patch

. . .
on the left side of t he thorax commencing at ,
t h e median line of the bod y the upper edge ,
bein g o n the leve l of the nipples while the ,
lowe r margin followed the o utline of the costa l

ca rtil age s I n this light Space there w as an
.
C OMPL EM ENTARY C OL O URS IN D IS EAS E 26 1
e ve n still lig hte r o ne exactly coinciding with

,
t h e ye ll ow s po t see n at her first i n sp e cti o n .
Also the re was a small p atch o n the right just ,
where the Aura was g ra n ular .
T he fo ll owi n g is a n oth e r i n sta n ce of th e small

disco lo re d patch be in g obse rve d e xactly o n the
p lace wh e re a p a i n existe d o n a la dy w h o com
,
p lain ed of p ain in the right mamma (T his was .
foun d to be malign an t an d subse quently re

moved ) D urin g t he e xaminati on sh e said s he
.
felt a pain i n t h e back but d i d not say in wh at

,
p a rt Whe n she turne d roun d t h e C C ban d

. . .
immediate ly sh owed a light alm ost circular S pot

,
about t h e size of a shillin g ove r t h e lowe r angle

of t he scapula o n t h e left si de I t was he re and.
,
n owh e re els e th at th e pain existe d Beca use

, .
this spot was li gh t in c ol our a p ro gn osis w as ,
g iv e n t o t h e e ffe ct t h at j u d i
g g n by the c o l o u r
of th is p atch th e pain woul d n o t re main l ong
, .
I n a fe w d ays th is pain quite d isapp e are d .
No thing fu rth e r will be sai d ab out t h e a p pe ar

a nce of the C C ban d upon th e rig ht bre ast as
. .
w e have no t see n sufficie n t case s fro m which
to draw an y conclusi ons and this was a com

,
p licated one .
2 62 THE HUMAN AT M OS PH ER E
D u ringthe c onsiderati on of the shape of the
Aura in ill he a lth it was remarke d that in cases
,
of hysteria the O uter Aura took a characteristic

,
fo rm very different from what is found among

,
non neurotic people while at the same time

-
,
the I nner Aura remained unchanged From .
its grea t constancy this peculi a rl y shap ed Aura

may be t aken as a prima facie evidence of this
prote an m a lady With the C C band the
. . .
chief a lterations disclosed are disc olored are as

in different parts of the body more commonly ,
light than d a rk a nd tra nsito ry Exception

, .
must be m a de of the three places mentioned

below I n every c ase of hysteria examined w e
.
h ave found a discolored patch on one or more

—
of the following pl aces the groin ( usually the
l eft ) the sacrum the spinal column ne a r the
, ,
l ower dors a l vertebra T hese spots a re gen .
e r al l y darker than the main portion of t he

C C b and but a re by n o means diagnostic
. .
,
of hysteri a as they a re consta ntl y found upon

,
other patients T he m ost frequent localitie s of

.
the light coloured p a tches are in front of t he

a bdomen and the lower p a rt of the thorax and ,
at the b ack on any p art of the spine also nea r , ,

s houlde r ; als o one slanting upwa rds and out
wards fro m t he left side at t he waist while on ,
t h e right sid e there was a light pa tch running
para lle l with the b ody Whe n she turned side .
ways t he Au ra in fron t was about two and a

,
half i n ch e s wi d e but c on tracte d t o two down

,
t h e l i mbs At t h e back it was two inches wide

.
by the sh oul de rs bulgin g out to fiv e at the

,
small of th e back an d then narrowing to two,
at t h e m ost pro min e nt part of t h e nates from ,
wh e n ce it c on tin ue d downwards un changed .
T h e re w a s a ve ry d isti n ct but c uri o us ray ,
e ma n ati n g ap p are n tly fr o m t h e umbilicus pr o ,
ce e d in g u p war d s and o utwards T his trave rsed

.
the wh ol e of t h e visible Aura and was l ost in

space b e i n g at least n in e in ch e s i n le ngth
, .
Wh e n sh e was e xamine d in fron t by m e ans of

the C C ba n d t he c ol our was e ve n through out
. .
,
un til it re ach e d half wa y be twe e n t h e umbilicus

a n d p u b e s wh e re it b e cam e darke r as it pro
,
ce e de d do w n wards T his d e e p e n i n g of t h e c o l
.
ou r was due to t h e fact that h e r m e nstrual

pe ri od was at h a n d Wh e n t h e band was used
.
tra n sve rsely th e re was a d arke r patch ove r t he

,
left ili ac re gi on c ommencin g ab out an inch

,
C OMPL EM ENTAR Y C O L OURS IN D I SEAS E 2 65
from the median lin e of t h e body N0 oth e r .
place in front showe d any colour change T he .
e xte nsi o n on the right sid e at t h e leve l of t h e
waist was of the usual col our whil e that on th e ,
left was darke r and had a peculiar brown tinge

( an impossibl e o ne to d e scribe ) T he re was as .
,
might be expected tende rness on the l eft S ide

,
just ove r Poupart s ligam ent and e ve n gre ate r

’
te nde rness on t he c o rre sp onding part on t h e

right side T his was curious as the band did
.
,
n o t sh ow a n y c o rre spondi n g abn o rmality .
When h e r back was inspe cte d by m e ans of

th e C . band there we re seen three distinct
,
are as a l ong t he sp inal c ol um n havin g a lighte r,
shade th an t h e main part of t he band Th e .
up p er o n e was o ve r t h e s e ve nth c e rvical ve rt e
bra being about an i nch in le n gth th e secon d

, , ,
about two inche s l on g was situate d ove r the

,
l owe r dorsal sp i ne s while th e third was over

,
t h e sacrum b e ing a b o ut the sam e size

, T he .
spines of the dorsal ve rtebra we re te nder but ,
not so se ns itive as on e ither side T h e se nsitive .
pa rt was exactly mapped out by t h e light patch

as seen by the C C band T he sp ot on the
. . .
sac rum wa s a lso tender and th e p a tient h a d

,
consta nt pain there Th e m ark on the cervic a l
.
re gion was by far the most in te resting ; as the

woman said sh e had no pain o r te nderness at
,
that place whe re up on her m othe r immedi

,
“
ate ly e xclaimed : Why that is wh e re you are ,
always complaining of p a in ' T h e answe r w a s

“
that she w as free from pain and te nde rness
at th e tim e and thought that w as what w as
,
wante d .
T his c a se w as s e e n at the time wh e n we were

trying e xperiments fo r separating the O uter
fro m the I nn e r Aura and had only p a rtially ,
s uccee de d H a d we made these observati ons a t

.
a little late r peri od the light patch on the ,
right side lyin g parall e l with th e body would

most likely have been prove d t o be a granular
state of the I nne r Aura (se e p a ge 2 20 and
other cases ) I t is interesting to note that
.
while the Aura by the side s of the body w as

quite typical of hysteria y et at the b ack and ,
the front it w as not as bro ad in proportion as

is gene rally se e n in th a t complaint T here w as .
more blue in t h e c ol our of the Aura than might

have been e xpected .
Wh y the C C b and shoul d S how a dark

. .
2 68 T HE HUMAN ATM OS PH E R E
It is quite re as onable to suppose that the Auras
of neurasth e nics would assume a form closely
a llie d in character and sh ape to th at perceived
in hyste ria Howe ver this does not se em to be
.
,
t h e cas e with any o ne w h o has had a ne rvous
bre akdown from undue stra i n of mind upon

body if th e case has shown n o previous te n
,
de ne y to e xc e ssive e m otion I n some and per .

, ,
haps m ost of th e se instances the Aura will ,
re tain its natural form Th e next case is a ve ry

.
striking illustrati o n of this .
S ometim e s h owever this aff ect ie n will pr o

, ,
duce an alte rati on of which case 2 1 is a ve ry

good e xampl e wh e re a lady had an uneven
,
O ute r Aura with n o c o rre sp o nding change of

t h e I nner e ither in size or sh a p e
, .
CA SE 3 5 C H a you n g l ady tw e nt y -five

— . . .
,
ye ars of a ge Wh e n she w as be tween e ighteen

.
a n d nin e t ee n she c o mm e nced attending a n in
valid re lative fo r e ightee n months during which ,
tim e sh e had n o t a si n gl e undisturbe d night ,
although sh e was wo rking h ard all da y T he .
conse que nce was that upon the de ath of h e r,
rel ation sh e had a n e rvous bre akdown and

, ,
fro m b e ing an unusually bright girl sh e be ,

C OMPL EM ENTARY C O L OURS IN D ISEAS E 2 69
came dull B y nature sh e possesse d an amiable

.
,
d isposition but for tun ate ly this part of h e r

“
, , ,
characte r did n ot alte r O utward ly sh e was a

.
we ll forme d woman but she h ad an undeve l

-
,
ope d ute rus an d had only m e nstruate d three

,
time s in h e r life S h e underwe n t some inte rnal

.
ope ration in th e coun try th e nature of which ,
c oul d n o t be asce rtain e d All aroun d h e r e yes

.
t h e skin is d ee p ly p igm e n te d of a d ark vi o l e t,
h ue g ivi n g at a sh o rt dista n c e t h e ap p e arance

,
of two black e ye s Wh en we first saw h e r sh e

.
,
was suffe rin g from functi onal h e miple gia on the

rig ht side with alm ost e ntire loss of se nsati on
,
from t he clavicle downwards a n d w as only abl e ,
to walk a few ste ps w ith out t h e assistance of a

stick Un de r tre atment S he soon reg ain e d t he
.
use of h e r limbs and sensati on gradu a lly be

,
came natural .
O n e p e c u liarity of her case was that the

affecte d thi gh was n early two inch e s larger in
circumfe re nce than th e h e althy o n e ; the l e g
was also bigge r but n o t to t h e sam e e xten t
, .
Th is e n larg e m e n t disapp e are d withi n a fe w

months afte r he r rec ove ry whe n b oth her l owe r
,
limbs we re foun d to be symme trical A ye ar .

late r she ha d a slight re lapse but it did n ot ,
last l ong D uring he r illne ss sh e w as always

.
desirous of ge tting we ll and did everything she ,
could to h e lp and neve r sh owed any signs of

,
u n due cravi n g fo r symp a thy .
I n J a nuary 1 9 09 she seemed quite we l l with

, , ,
t h e e xc e pti o n of a little indigesti o n and slight
m e ntal sluggishne ss S h e state d h owever that .

, ,
s h e had pai n in the ri g ht side of t h e abd o m en ,
a n d the l owe r part of t h e back Whe n in .
s p ect e d s h e sh o w e d an Aura much large r than

,
t h e aver a ge I t was w e ll marke d t h e c o lour

.
,
be ing a gre y blue I t e xte n de d ten inches at

.
t h e widest part a n d cam e d own fr o m o ver t h e

,
head to the l owe r third of t h e l e gs befo re it

fin ally contracted be i n g alm ost e gg shape d
,
- .
At her ankl e s it was ab o ut two in ch e s wide .
T here were rays tw o in n u mb e r proceeding

, ,
from h e r waist at right a n g les o n e o n e ith e r ,
side but the y di d not reach t he oute r limit of

,
t h e Aura When sh e turned side ways t he

.
,
Aura in front was ab out two and a h a lf inch e s

in width narrowin g very little d own the thighs
,
and le gs At t he back it was two inches by the

.
sh o ulde rs ; in the lumbar re gions it was four ,

fif t y six ye ars of a ge has be en paralysed thirty
-
,
one yea rs T he paralysis w as a seque l to spe

.
cific dise a se H is right a rm is slightly affecte d

.
,
but he is a ble t o carry o n his e mployment as

an uph olsterer though with difficulty owing
, ,
to this infirmity which is incre ased by defective

,
sight H is right leg is the limb most affected

.
,
and is sm a ller than the l eft so that his wa lking ,
power is limited H e is completely blind in

.
o n e e y e from neuritis and the other i s much ,
imp a ired from the same c a use At the present .
tim e his genera l c onditi on of he alth is good h

.
H e is ma rried and his children S how no signs

,
of hereditary t a int .
H e was first examined in 1 9 08 and again in

1910 . T h e tw o observations cl osely agree d but ,
in the l atter the tw o Auras could be sep a rate d .
As he stood facing the observer the I nner Aura ,
w as the s a me width on the tw o sides being ,
ab out tw o a nd a h a lf inch es but th e re w as a ,
great diff erence in texture as on the left it was ,
m o re distinctl y lineated th an on the right side

of the b ody At first sight it lo oked as if it
.
were narrower o n th e latte r but that illusion ,
a rose from its being more dim T he O uter .

C OMPL EM ENTARY C O L O URS IN D ISEAS E
-\ s
FI G . 28 .
—Aur a of a ma n . N a rr o w e r on the le ft
s i de of the he a d an d on i ght s i de o f the
the r
bo dy ,
tha n o n the c o r re spo n di n g parts
o f the o o s i te s i de
pp .
suff ering from a n acute illness he would of ,
necessity have to re main in bed Fo r obvious .
re ason s be side s t h e d ifficulty of a background

,
a n d t h e arra n ge me n t of light etc it would in

, .
,
m ost of th ese case s be inadvisable if not abso ,
l ut e l y improp e r t o troubl e them with an inv es

,
t ig a t io n which of n e cessity must be pr o longed
a n d fatigui n g while in our p re se nt state of

,
knowle dge t he bene fits would be very problem

at ica l
. Chronic case s such as can be in,
sp ect e d with impunit y will sh ow ch a nges in

,
t h e Aura but n on e of th e se h a ve a ny dia gno s

,
tic value Although the investigation of the

.
Aura of these patients is very interesting yet ,
we h ave prefe rred t o turn our attention to

oth e rs wh om we th o ught m o re like l y to give
,
re sults which might be usef ul fo r diagnosis .
T h e o n e ai m of o ur re se arch has been t o utilise

t h e Aur a as a m e ans of d i a gn osis We S h a ll .
,
h owe ve r quote one o r two c ases which will

,
give an ide a of what changes are likely to be

found Th e following instance is very inter
.
e stin g .
—
CAS E 3 7 T fo rty three yea rs of a ge w h o
. .
,
-
,
is a married woman c ompl a ined th at one day

,
C OM PL EM ENTARY C OL OURS IN D IS EASE 27 7
as sh e was g e ttin g up wh ile c oughin g sh e ,
broug ht up som e bri g h t bl ood Acc o rd i n g to .
h e r acc o un t it was quite a te aspoo nful Al .
th ough a ve ry careful e xamination was m ade ,
w e c o ul d n o t d e t e ct its o r g a n ic o ri g in Tw o .
days afte rwards h e r Aura w as insp ecte d prior

to t he usual examin ati on by a uscultation e tc , .
T h e Aura ha d t h e usual sha p e a n d S i z e fo r a

woman of h e r age an d sh owe d n o abn o rmality
,
until t he C C band was e mploye d across h e r

. .
ch est A ligh t sp ot about th e siz e of a fl orin

.
,
on th e l eft si de in t h e secon d intercostal space

'
a n d ab o ut o n e i n ch fr o m t h e sternum was im ,
m ediate ly seen As soon as a steth osc ope was

.
p lace d ove r this sp ot fine cre pitation could ,
be h e ard dee p down a n d w e b e lieve wh e th e r

, ,
rig htly o r wrongly that this was t he p lace

,
from which t he bl ood e xude d Eve n if we .
had not see n th is light sp ot on th e C C ban d . .

,
w e do n o t thi n k w e sh o ul d have misse d this
inflame d p atch an d c onsi de r that this disco l

,
o re d spot w as due to a l ocal i n flammati on and ,
that t he C C ban d woul d n ot have sh ow n an y

. .
alte ration ha d it be e n e mp l oye d two d ays pre

,
v io us l y
, directly afte r t h e h a mo pty s is T his .
278 T HE HUMAN ATM OS PH E R E
was the on ly p a rt of the lung in which w e
could detect any disease .
Of all the ch e st c o mplaints t h e o ne p ar

ex cel lence , in which the change of th e Aura
might be of assistance is incipient phthisis but
, ,
at p resent w e h ave not any distinctive case to

bring forwa rd and in fact w e h ave been disap
,
pointed with those th a t were e xa mined Of .
cou rse in bronchitis o r emphysema where the

, ,
whole of the lungs is affected mere ly loc a l al ,
t e rat io n s of the Aura cannot be expected ; but
should there be any ch ange in the Aura it will ,
t ake pl ace a ll ove r the thorax equally and any ,
slight va ri ation th at m ay be present will be too

faint for distinguishing .
T he foll o wing c a se m a y be t a ken a s a typic a l

ex a mple and shows h ow littl e c a n be lea rned
,
at present from th e state of the Aura in chest

c ompl aints .
CASE 3 8 B L sixty yea rs of age S he

.
-
. .
, .
h as suff ered fo r years from asthm a and emphy

sem a with occasion a l bronchitis and has h ad
t w o or three att a cks of cellular pn e um o nia .
When inspected th e re was nothing ab out the

shap e of the Aura that was unusual But a t .
,
of th e rays e mitte d from the fin ge r tips by -
mere ly willing that this should be the case h as ,
bee n m e ntioned and can be demonstrated at

,
any tim e Mesmerists w ho natura lly have

.
,
strong wi lls and w h o have devoted themselves

to th e de ve lopment of this p ower to modify th e
Aura by mean s of which th e y c a n influence
,
oth e r pe ople by subj e cting their will p owe rs ,
ar e furth e r e vid e nc e that w ill can and d oes

c ontro l th e Aura .
T e mp e ram e n t o r t h e s um t o tal of t he me n
,
tal an d physical p owe rs of the ind ividu a l ,
has alre ady bee n n otice d as a m odifier of the

Au ra n d it is e vide nt th at this mo difica
, a
ti on is m o re e xte nsive when the men ta l powe rs

of t h e subject a re great I t is n ot merely the
.
area of th e Aura that is aff ected but a lso its,
substanc e as is illustrate d by t h e Aura of d ull

,
people hav in g m o re grey in its col our with' ,
at the sam e time a c o rresponding co arseness

, .
T h e alt e rations pro duced by t h e will a nd tem
p e ra m e n t ar e e ntir e ly physi o logical eff ects .
As will and mind a re high a ttributes of the

brai n a n d e abl e to i n flue n ce the Aura as a
, ar
wh ole it may c e rtain ly be exp ected that any

,
C O M PL E M ENTARY C O L O URS IN D IS EAS E 28 1
de range ment of the o rgan will modify the Aura

in s o me way or a n oth e r . Most like ly a m odi
fica tio n of t h e wh o l e Aura take s plac e but the ,
change s are so re fined in th e ir n ature as to be

im pe rce ptible to o ur senses ; neverth eless the ,
m ore crude changes are capable of detection .
T h e crud e cha n ge s th at are Visible may be

so stra n ge that n o t eve n th e m ost imaginative
pe rson c ould be like ly to foresee th e m For .
e xample wh o c o ul d h ave c o nc e ive d t h e h y st e r i

,
cal Au ra A n d t h e m o re w e c on template
'
,
t h e m o re i n c o mpre h e n sible it s ee ms . Am on g
women th e ovoid S hap e ( Fig 1 1 ) of the O ute r
.
Aura is e vid e n tly th e hi g h est fo rm an d th e,
m o re the Au ra app roximate s to th is shape t h e

m o re pe rfect it is T h e main peculiarity of
.
t h e hysterical Aura li e s in its b e in g d is p ro
p o rt io n a t e l y wi d e by t h e si d e s o f the tr u n k
and in th e lumbar re gi ons at t h e back and to ,
t h e bre a dth d own t h e thighs a n d l e g s T his

.
“
Aura is to use a botanical te rm S p atulate
, ,
”
when seen with the p ati ent faci n g the observer .
We ca nn ot te ll h o w th is sh ap e has arisen but ,
surmise that th e re may have been arrested de

ve l o pme n t b e l o w t h e tru n k reta inin g t h e i nf a n
282 THE H UMAN AT M OS PH ER E
tile fo rm beca use that type toge ther with the
, ,
adult fe m a le Aura around the head and body ,
will give the peculiar shape seen in hysteri a .
A further confirmation of this View is the fact ,
th at t he Aura bulges out at the lumb a r re gions ,
yet contracts at the same le vel as at t h e sides .
I t is useless in our p re se n t state of knowledge

to speculate why this pe culiar configurati on oc
curs in wo m e n w ho are hysterical T he only .
oth e r practical questi on t o be so lved is whether

t h e Aura if it have a n o rmal sha p e c a n change
, ,
to t he ab ove typ e Pe rson a lly we thin k it ex

'
t re me l y un lik e ly as w e have n e ve r s e e n any

,
case in a transitional state nor one that ,
woul d lea d us to supp ose that s uch a change

might take plac e O n e curious po in t is that
.
,
in cases where this fo rm of A u ra occurs there ,
has n e ve r as y e t bee n seen an y variation in

shap e o r siz e of th e I nne r Aura alth ough th e re
,
ar e oft e n l ocal change s of substanc e ,pe rh aps in

greater vari e ty of situations tha n in any other
sing le dise ase I n e pil e psy quite a diff e rent al
.
t e ra t io n of t h e Aura is e n c o u n te re d.
H e re i nstead of th e O ute r be i n g only o r ce r

,
t in l y t h e m ost a ff e ct e d ( s in h yst e ria ) b oth

a a ,
a nd the I nner A ur as as the l atte r
ar e dis tinct,
never see ms to be deranged over a l a rge sp ace ,
without some variation of the fo rmer taking

place ; on the other hand the O ute r m ay be
alte red while the I nner rem a ins unch anged .
T here is n ot t h e slightest doubt that the

Aura is affected locally when there is some
loc a l disorde r of the nerves but whether the ,
a lteration is the direct outcome of the nerve

disturbance (simil a rly to a functiona l derange
ment of a n orga n ) or whether it is the aff ected
,
o rga n that produces the ch ange in the Aura ,
i s at present uncert a in M ost prob a bly e ither

.
may be the cause and in many insta nces the

,
t w o a re j o intly concerned O n e fact stands out

.
prom i nentl y vi z that a loc a l disturb ance in

, .
,
fl uences the I nner Aur a with much gre a ter

frequency th an it does the O uter a nd when ,
the l atter i s affected the former ra rely esc apes

derangement ( Cases 2 3 2 4 2 5 are instances
.
, , ,
in which the outer Aura has become loc ally

altered ) T his is the re verse of what usua lly
.
occurs when the wh ole or the gre ater p art of

the side is aff ecte d .
A case of neuralgia may be t aken as a n e x

C O MPL EM ENT A R Y C O L O URS IN D IS EAS E 285
ample of t he m anner in which the nervous sys

t e m primarily operate s up o n this Aura Case
.
2 1 is a ve ry g ood e x ampl e .When seen l ate in

1 9 09 it w as n otic e d that t h e wh o l e of the I nner
Aura adj acent t o the painful parts was altered ,
as it had l ost all stri ati on an d had bec ome

coa rsely granular in appe a ran ce T h e O uter
.
,
too showed si g n s of de rangem ent as the distal

, ,
porti on w as le ss p lainly see n than is usual ,
giving it the asp ect of havin g l ost p a rt of its

substance as it might be othe rwise stated No
, , .
2 Auric fo rce w a s n o t s o gre at as if healthy ,
but at the same ti me there was n o alte ration

in its ge ne ral ch ara cte r If t h e fo rce h ad bee n
.
still less th e Aura would h ave bee n se e n smalle r

th an normal T h is was th e c on dition of the Aura
.
when first see n i n 1 9 08 an d it is e vide n t that

,
in 1 9 09 it w as re g aining its n at ural con dition s .
I n an acute case of n eural g ia a g irl th ir

, ,
teen ye a rs of age ha d a spot at t h e level and

,
two inche s to t h e ri ght of the third do rsal ve r

te bra whe re sh e had p aroxysms of p ain comi n g
,
on sudde n ly an d ofte n lastin g fo r h ours T he .
m ost c ommon time fo r its acce ssion w as at

night som etim es just b efo re sh e went t o be d
,
o r s oo n afte r and at e ith e r time the p a in would
,
awaken he r T he re w as no tenderness over the

.
place an d no cause c ould be found to account

,
fo r it I t w as ve ry intractable t o tre a tment fo r

.
s ome wee ks but had improved a little when she

,
developed appe ndicitis an d immedi atel y the pain

,
vanished and neve r returned H e r Aura w as .
e x a min e d and was fo u n d quite n a tur a l a ll over

,
the b ody with the e xcepti on of a sm a ll p a tch

,
just ove r t h e p a inf ul spot which had become

fin e ly g ra nular I t was only in the I nner Aur a
.
that any chan ge c o ul d be disc overe d a s the ,
patch of the Aura affected must have bee n ve ry

small I t would hardly be like ly for the O uter
.
Aura t o S how any change since the surro und

,
in g h e a lth y p o rti o n must have o bscured a ny

that did take place I n this inst ance the blue
.
C C band sh owe d a dark spot while in the

. .
,
last c ase the affected Aura induced a lighter

sh ade .
A m a n suff ering from sci a tica ex hibited sim

il
ar changes in th e Aura d own the Whole of his
thigh .
Wh e n a n ervo us derangement c a uses a local

o rganic cha n g e of tissue it is p rob abl e th at th e
,
In none w as th e re any pain and they were onl y ,
discovered by accide n t I n n o case could any .
alterati on of t h e O ute r Aura be discovered ,
but each deranged the I nne r Aura O n e fibro .
ade noid caused t h e I nner Aura to assume the

similitude of a small ray n o t m o re th a n o n e and
a h a lf inches i n length be ing ab out slightly ,
m ore than half th e width of the I nner Aura ,
and this ray w as fin e ly granul ate d When .
viewe d with t he blue C C b a nd it exhibited . .
itself as a sp ot lighter th an the re m aining por

tion of the b and especially as the col our w as
,
fa ding With the yell ow C C b a nd this patch

. . .
w as darker .
T h e sec ond fibro a de n oid inst a nce w as alm o st

-
ide ntic a l T he remaining case too w as ve ry

.
, ,
S imilar , as only the I nner Aura w as aff ected

fo r its wh ole width and the ch ange consist ed
,
of a c oa rse granular state repl acing t he ordinary

Aura just over the tum o ur When this w as .
examined by me ans of the C C bands the blue . .
sh owed a light and the ye llow a d a rk p atch

,
.
From the above re marks it may be t aken fo r

g r anted that
, althou g h the n e rvous s y stem has
a ve ry g re at pe rhaps a predomin ant contro l
,
C O M PL EM ENT A R Y C O L O URS IN D IS EAS E 28 9
ove r the Auras y et other tissues whe n in an

, ,
unh e althy state d o influe n ce th e m as we ll

, In .
conn ecti on with this subj e ct it will be i n terest

ing to c ompare Case 3 3 with Case 3 1 I n the .
fo rm e r t h e p atie n t had an ulcer of the stomach

which cause d t he part of th e C C ban d in . .
fron t of it to be alte re d be side s causi n g a good

,
sp ace aroun d it to be lighte r in tint than the

rest of th e ban d Also t he Auras we re c oarse
.
l y granu lar in t h e g astric re gi on I t must be.
notice d that th e re was no change in tint of

the band near th e dorsal vertebra .
I n t h e latte r case although the wom a n w as

,
suff eri ng from constant vomiting y e t the re ,
w as o nly a slight gr a n ul a r a p p e ara n c e of t h e
Auras in the gastric re gi on an d th e C C band

, . .
did n ot discl ose an y ch ange of c ol our in the

front of the body but on the back there was a
,
n a rrow streak l ying cl ose to the spi n al c olumn

on the left side from th e third to the ninth
,
dorsal vertebra which was decide d ly li g hter in

,
c ol our than the remainde r of the band and h ad

sharply define d marg ins .
I n the first of thes e cases it l ooked as if the

,
dise ase d o rg a n was alm ost e ntirely th e facto r

producing the a ltera tion in the Auras while in ,
t h e l a tter t h e de ranged stom ach onl y aff ected
t h e Auras slightly but t h e m a in ch a nge in

,
t h e band was due t o t h e n ervous system .
Although it seems fairly certain that some

dise ased o rgans do produce a ch ange of some
kind in the Auras y et there are instan ce s in
,
which w e have l ooke d for it without any suc

c e ss Tw o o r three cases of granul a r kidney
.
have been inspected but in none has any alter

,
ati on of t h e Au ra bee n detected O n e of these

.
patien ts had bee n affl icte d with this c omplaint

fo r man y years an d inspe cti on took place a
,
sh o rt time befo re h e became hemipl e gic with

a fatal re sult I t is p ossible that t h e re as on
.
w h y in th e s e cases the Auras sh owed n o altera
ti on is that t h e de pth of the supe rincumbent

h e a lthy tissue annu lled t he influence of the
dise ased o rgan together with th e fact th at the
,
change i n the kid n e y is a dege neration of a

passive rath e r tha n an active type .
sh ape of the Aura and its texture T hese will .
be considered se riatim .
When a wo ma n is inspected fo r e arl y preg

n ancy it is advisable in the first place to as
,
ce rtain whe th e r her Aur a is norm a l in shape

a n d size n o t mere ly by the sid e s
, but by the ,
front and back I n nearly every c ase of preg

.
n ancy which we have e xamined the O uter Aur a, ,
all down the front of the p atient has seemed t o ,
be wide r o n the whole than usual neve r e xceed ,
ing h owever the limit given o n page 1 6 At

, , .
pre sent it cannot be de cide d w h eth e r t h e re is _ _
any abso lute increase o r whe the r the enlarge

,
ment is illusive and due to t h e te ndency of the

Aura to be slightly altered in texture a nd thus ,
made m o re perce ptible .
Whe ther this be the c ase or no there can ,
usu a lly be obse rved s om e slight increase of the

O uter Aura at t h e l owe st part of t h e abd o m e n ,
when th e patie nt is stan din g sideways to the

observer Also if she has n ot turned roun d
.
,
quite as much but sufficiently to a llow th e

,
c ontour of the bre ast and nipple to be sil

h o ue tt e d upon the bl ack background it m a y ,
h e re also be seen to be a little enl a rged At

, , .
T HE AURA D UR I N G PR E GNANC Y 293
the s ame time in both these positions the I nne r

Aura will look more de n se an d bright g iving ,
t h e eff e ct at first of a g ranular app e aranc e .
T his is e sp e cially n otice abl e in fro n t of t h e n ip

ple s wh e re it is mo re prominen t than around
,
t h e o th e r p arts of t h e bre ast a n d s o m e times

,
fo rms the appe aran ce of a small ray .
O n e m ost im po rtant fact t o be re m e mb e re d

is th at t h e I nn e r Aura is no t g ranular but ,
re mains striate d T h is lin e atio n sh ows th e re

.
is no m o rbi d action takin g p lace but that there ,
is on ly a n incre ase of p hysi ol og ical acti on .
Afte r t h e p atie n t has had h e r Aura in specte d

d ire ctly it is nec essary t o c omme nce t he c ol our
,
test Fo r doing this sh e must face th e obse rve r

.
wh e n h e e mpl oys th e C C ba n d ve rtically and

. .
,
h e will pe rce ive the colour e ve n thro ugh o ut t h e

en tire length if she is in good health an d pre g
,
n ant H e ou g ht to take special n otice of t he

.
pa rt of the ban d on th e lowe r po rtion of th e

abd ome n ne ar the pubes T h e full sig nificance .
of this te st is that t he patie nt sh ows no sign

,
that the act of me nstruati on is ne ar at hand .
Whe n th e C C band is employe d transverse ly

. .
over th e bre asts th e c olour with wom e n wh o

,
T HE HUMAN AT M OS PH ER E
are not pregnant or wh o are not nu rsing an
,
infant and have no affection of the m a mma ,
is naturally e ve n (exce pt ove r the a re ola and

nipples ) n o t so le ly o n the bre asts themselves
, ,
but also o n the adjace nt parts of the body .
I n pregnanc y and in lact a ti o n it is common to

find the C C band o ver the breast to have
. .
a lighte r shade T he lighter tint is due to a

.
change in the Aura similar t o th a t which has

bee n c onsidered in Chapte r VI T his alterati on
.
of tin t has n o m e aning in itse lf but is a good ,
co rrob o ration of a change having taken place

in t h e Aura surr o undi n g t h e bre asts When .
t h e transverse C C ban d is thrown up o n the

. .
e pigastric and h ypog a stric regions n o ch ange ,
of c o lour will be sh own although the p atient

,
m ay be sufferin g from nausea and vomiting ,
pointing to the fact that the gastric disturb

ance is not s o depende nt up on a local dera nge
ment a s upon s o me nervous influence .
Case 3 1 is an an a l o g o us instance where the

stom ach troubles were d ue to pregnancy If .
t h e patient has previously been suff ering f rom
an aff ec ti on of the sto mach this statement of ,
cou rse cannot hold good No oth e r assistance

, .
dissimilar Wh e n this is so the front is more
.
,
like ly to be lighter in sh ade confirm atory of the ,
alteration of the Aura in this p art as h a s been ,
discusse d a bo ve .
T o sum up the signs of e a rl y p regn ancy as

shown by the Au ra a re : ( 1 ) A slight increa se
of t he O uter Aura at the lower p art of t he ab
domen and in front of the breasts .
T h e I nner Aura is incre a sed in distinctn e ss

'
but re mains striated .
( )
2 T h e C C b
. a nd shows. no disc o lor a ti o n
on the lower part of the a bdomen .
N o discoloration over the stom a ch even if ,
nause a is pre se nt T he band is often lighter

.
on the bre a sts .
( )
3 Absenc e of t h e dark p a tch on the lumbo
sacra l region .
T h e tw o following a re illustra tive c a ses

CA SE 3 9 L K aged twenty nine S he
.
-
. .
,
- .
has been m a rrie d ne arly two ye ars and hopes ,
s h e may be pre gn a nt as sh e miss e d o n e period

,
and a second is nea rly due at th e present time .
Wh e n inspected as she stood facing the o b

,
serve r he r O ute r Aura w as ten inches wide

,
round the head and trunk by the side gradu ,

THE AURA DUR I N G R EGNA N CY
P 297
ally diminishing to fiv e at t h e ankles T he .
I n ner Au ra was two and a half inch e s in

bre adth all ove r the body When she turned .
side ways t o the obse rver the O ute r Aura at the

,
back was four inc he s in bre adth wide nin g to six

at the small of t he back I n front taken as a
.
,
wh ole it was about four inche s wide all the

,
way down but there was a S light incre ase in

,
front of the bre asts an d a slight bulge at t he

l owest part of t he abdome n I n the se tw o .
place s the I nne r Aura looke d coarse and con

sequen tly mo re distin ct but was striate d
, .
When t h e C C band was use d o n this por

. .
tion t he e xtension in fron t was lighte r th an at

t h e back A S sh e a g ain faced t h e o bse rve r t h e
.
,
C C band whe n use d vertically was even all

. .
,
t h e way down t h e fron t with t h e e xcepti on of
t h e small parts over t h e bre asts When used .
transversely over the breasts the se we re lig hte r

,
i n sha d e than t h e a djacent p arts T h e re was .
n o alte ration in t h e tint of t h e gastric re gio n .
Whe n the back was examin e d the colour was

unalte re d in an y p lace T he le sson s to be
.
lea rned from this case a e first that t h e

, r ,
wom a n did not Show any si gn s of approach

in g m e nstruation althou gh it w as due Next
, .
the Aura disclosed t h e fact that there w as

physi ol ogical activity goin g on in the breasts
and in the part of t he abdomen just above th e
pubes T here w a s no doubt about the case
.
being one of pre gnancy .
CAS E 2 1 (continued fro m page — I n this

insta nce t he lady be lieved herself to be preg
n ant h a ving misse d two monthly pe riods and
,
w as n e ar h e r third Howeve r there was n o

.
,
alterati on of the Aura round h e r right bre ast ,
nor a n y increase of the abd omen just above the

pube s n e ither was th e re an y discolorati on in
,
this place wh e n the C C band was employe d

. . .
O n t he back there was a prominent dark patch

as se e n with th e C C ban d ove r the sacrum
. . .
I n this case t h e o n ly sign of pregnancy was

t h e absenc e of t h e d is coloration of the C C . .
band j ust ove r t h e pub e s Th e diagn osis w as .
made that pre gn ancy was o ut of t h e questi on ,
that mens truation would n o t take place within

four o r fiv e d ays but wh en c oul d n o t be fore
, ,
tol d As a matte r of fact it occurre d j ust seven

.
days afte r th e i n sp e cti on .
A S pre gn anc y proc e ed s the ch a nge s of th e ,

two cl asses which a ltho ugh they are not very
, ,
unlike y et have a distinction which is by no

,
means a rtificial I n o n e group the Aura is not

.
so much incre ased as in the second ; besides the ,
shape is m o re regul a r and follows with greater

e xactitude t h e contour of the body When the
.
woman stands sideways t o the observer and the ,
Auras a re differe ntiated i n to the I nner and O uter

by the carmine scre en the former will be seen
,
t o be S lightly en larged a n d to keep a propor

t io n at e width t o t h e O uter Aur a throughout .
I n the s e c on d gr o up t h e p atients have their

Auras broade r and m o re distinct in front of the
m ost promine nt p a rt of t he abdomen th an be ,
side the l e ss protubera nt portions causing th e

,
Aura to be c onical and giving the impressi on

,
th at it is wider than it is in re a lity When the

.
two Auras a re separated t h e I n ner too will be

, , ,
seen t o have a te nde n cy t o be c om e c onical be ,
ing a little wide r in front of the most prominent

part of the abdomen but n o t to th e e xtent of
,
t h e O uter
. T his is a good instanc e of the I nner
Aura growing l a rger and subse que ntly diminish
ing as it re ga ins its n atura l S ize shortl y after
parturiti on
THE A U R A DUR I N G R E GNAN CY
P 3 01
Wh e n C C ban d is e mpl oyed th e whole

th e . .
,
of th e bfe ast except the nipple and the a reola ,
will usually appe ar lighte r than th e ne ighbour

in g parts of the b od y wh e ther the p atient be
,
standing facing o r sideways .
Th e C C ba n d wh e n thrown upo n t h e th o
. .
r ax o r abdom en will s o m e tim e s be e ve n and
at othe rs d arke r o n th e latte r I f t h e woman .
turns sideways t o t he obse rve r an d th e trans ,
ve rse C C ban d be thrown upon t h e abdome n

. .
,
in the second group of case s wh e re th e Aura is

conical the extre me poin t of t he protube ran t
,
abdomen is usually lighte r and th e fron t is ,
lig hte r than the back e xtension I n th e first .
group of cases the C C band is eve n through

. .
out.
T h e pal e n ess o f the colour ove r the bre asts

an d abd o m e n associate d with t h e e nlarge m e n t
and de fin ition of th e I n ne r Aura indicate s that ,
it is extreme ly probable that some ch ange in

t h e Aura has taken plac e a n d is a n extra ,
“
p roof th at a change of texture in the Aura
c a n caus e a suffici e nt alterati o n in t h e C C . .
ba nd to chan ge its tint The fol lowing c ase is

.
ext remely i nteresti n g :

C A SE 40 —M rs
. T age d thirty ye ars w as
. .
,
pre gn ant fo r t h e fou rth time When inspected .
s h e had re ach e d the sixth month T h e histo ry .
s h e gave w a s th a t she had been feeling ex ceed
in g ly we ll t h e whole time but thre e wee ks pre

,
v io us l y S h e was aw akened in a fright by a ro w
in th e h ouse From that time all movement of

.
t h e child ceased a nd the abdom e n w as ge tting

,
smalle r alth ough previous to the upset the

,
m ove ments of the child were uncomfortably

strong S h e w as depressed thinking th e child
.
w a s d e ad .
I nspecti on of the Aura at t h e sides and b ack

sh owe d it natural in e ve ry respect I n front as .
,
s h e st oo d sid e ways t o the o bserve r t h e I nne r ,
Aura w as ab out three inches broad d own the

th o rax and l ower extremities e xcept that it w as ,
slightly m o re m a rked in front of the nipples .
Before t h e prominent abd o men it w as about

two and a half in ches wi de T h e O uter Aura .
was three a n d a half inch e s down the whole of

t h e body e xc e pt in fr o nt of the abdomen whe re
,
it w as c onical an d be came about e ight inch e s

wide T he main inte rest w as ce ntred in the
.
conditi o n of the I n n e r Au ra T his a bove the .

,
soft than is usu a l at the six th m onth of gesta
tion N o signs of any uterine souffl e nor foe
.
tal he a rt be ats coul d be distinguish e d Tw o

- .
months later she w as delivered of a de ad male

infant .
I n c onclusion we kn ow our shortcomings a nd

only h ope that o ur re ade rs will ove rl ook th em ,
as the subject of seeing the Aura through the

interventi on of scree ns is quite a n ew one S o .
many unforese e n difficulties h ave arisen and ,
peculi a ritie s de tected from time to time that it

has bee n necessary to comm e nce observations de
n one more than o nce We sh a ll be quite satis
.
fie d that o ur lab o ur has n o t b ee n wasted if sci ,
ence especi a lly as regards medica l diagnosis

, ,
has been adva nced one iota and w e ferventl y

h ope that more competent investiga to rs will
take up the subject as there is a vast field fo r
useful research .
L astly w e must th ank our friends s om e of

,
th e m w h o h ave put th e mse lves to gre a t person al

inconvenience fo r their kind assistance
, .
3 08 TH E HU MAN AT MOS PH ER E
rapid incre ase of he r Aura in eighteen months .
When seen in the S prin g of 1 9 09 it was ba re ly

seven i n ch e s by the waist and now it is quite
,
nine inches M enstruation has set in and she

.
l ooks a picture of health When last inspected

her Aura w as very distinct h e althy in sh ape
,
and appe a rance and e ven in brightness a ll

,
round h e r body without sh owing any signs of

,
—
rays in short an ideal o n e for our purpose
, .
Before commencing any exp e riment w e showed

her how the Aura emanatin g from the tip o f
o ne finger could be e xte n de d o r diminished a t
will and aske d her to try and influence hers in
,
the same manner T his she almost immedi

.
,
atel y succee de d in d oing so w e requested her

,
to ende avour to perf orm th e s a me in diff erent

p a rts of her body to which sh e a greed The
, .
first pl ace chosen w as t h e crest of the i lium as,
that was considered a ve ry suitable pl ace be ,
ca use w e h ad never seen a beam radi a ting from

it a lthough theore tic a lly it wo uld be a likel y
,
situation for a ray be ing a promine nt ridge

, .
Af ter a bout h a lf a mi n ute from the comme nce

m e nt of w illing th e I nne r Aura looked
,
brighter and gradually extended outwards a nd

APP EN D I X 3 09
upwards as fa r as th e margi n of the O ute r

Aura When the ray th us fo rmed had re ach e d
.
this poin t sh e stopped willing a nd the ray

,
rapid ly re cede d .
T h e next p lace ch ose n was the lowest part of

the th orax while sh e was stand ing in th e same
,
position viz facing th e obse rve r I t is n o t

, .
, .
at all un comm on to p erce ive rays proceeding

straight out from this situati on and also it is ,
one of the m ost fre que nt p laces fo r rays of the

first orde r o r patches of light to appear Th e .
result was hardly what was e xpe cted as inste ad ,
of a ray procee ding outwards th e whole of th e

,
I n ne r Aura fro m th e sixth rib t o th e crest of

th e ilium becam e bri g ht with o ut a n y exte nsi o n .
T h e two sh oulde rs first o n e a n d th e n the

,
othe r were the n ext two spots se l e cte d fo r th e

,
e ma n ati o n of t h e rays He re th e re d id n ot
.
see m to be an y difficulty as th e be ams man i

fe st e d th e mse lve s alm ost d ire ctly takin g an
,
upward an d outward d irecti on .
T h e patie nt n o w tu rn e d si d e ways an d be g an
willing a ray to exte nd from th e tip of h e r nose .
I n th is sh e was p e rfe ctly succe ssfu l as it p , a
p e ar e d al mo st imm e diat e ly a n d str e tched o ut

wa rds seven or e ight inch e s T his was beyond
.
t h e e xte rnal margin of t h e visible O ute r Aura .
A S S h e was e vid e ntly b e c o ming tire d th e e x ,
p e r im e n t in g was conclud e d by h e r ind u cing a

ra y to emanate fro m the n ipple T his occurre d .
instantly she be gan to will but at the same ,
time the wh o le of th e I nner Aura in front of

the breast be ca me brighte r .
I t has alre ady be e n shown that th e Aur a a d

j acent to prominences of the body is m o re sus
ce p t ibl e t o e xte rn al influences o wing t o the fact
,
that the auric p otential is gre ate r upo n p oints

th a n upon pl ane s urface s Fo r th e same re a
.
son it is onl y n atural to supp ose that th e w ill

p o w e r w o uld b e abl e t o ex e rt its influence
m o re easily and p owe rfully up on th e Aura
in front of protuberan ce s than e lse wh e re T h e .
first m e nti on e d expe rim e nts conj oine d with

other S imilar ones prove that such is th e case .
B ut in comin g to this con clusi on it must n o t

, ,
be fo rgo tten th at th e con ce n trati on of the mind

up on the gi ve n sp ot which is to be i n flue n ce d ,
is much m o re e asy wh e n this is n aturally a dis

tinct p o rtion of the body than wh e n it is on ly
,
a p oint in the midst of a large e ven surface .

of a m ost difficult pro ble m and at th e sam e
,
tim e prove s th e truth of th e th e o ry pre vi ously

advance d in Chapte r I V viz that col our
, .
,
change s we re fre que n tly th e o rigin of the

lighte r o r darke r patch e s in th e C C bands . . .
Fo r this p u rp ose w e e n g a g e d an artist s m ode l ’

.
CA SE 4 2 D a marri e d woman twe nty

.
— .
, ,
eight ye ars of a ge w h o h as had two children

, ,
was i n specte d during O cto be r 1 9 1 0 At first , .
h e r Au ra was e xamin e d in th e o rdi n ary manne r .
I t w a s distinct havi n g a gre y blu e c o l o ur As .
sh e st o od facing the o bserve r t h e O u te r Aura

,
around th e head an d tru n k was about ten

inches in width but it n arrowe d sharply a ve ry
,
sh o rt distan ce bel ow the l eve l of t h e pubes ,
when it became on ly fou r in ch e s bro ad T h e .
I nn e r Aura was three i n ches by the hea d n d a
trun k a n d slightly l e ss by t h e S i de s of th e
,
l ower half of t h e thighs n d le gs Wh e n sh e

a .
tu rn e d si d e ways the O ute r Aura was se e n in

,
fron t to be five inch e s by th e trun k and four

l owe r down ; at th e back it was four inches by
the sh oulde rs bulgi n g out from that place until
,
it becam e ab out e ight i n ch e s at the waist con ,
tracti n g suddenl y just be low the buttocks to

A PPE N DIX 313
about four inch es kee pin g th is width down th e

,
l ower e xtremitie s T he I nn e r Aura was thre e

.
i n ches wide by the h e ad and trun k a n d a littl e ,
l e ss bel ow T h e C C ban d sh owe d on ly o n e

. . .
p atch upon th e sacrum wh ich was a little darke r

than th e prope r tint O th e rwise t he col our was
.
e ve n all o ve r t h e b o dy T he exte nsions of t h e

.
band by the side of t he body were a like both as ,
s h e sto o d with h e r arms upraised a n d als o in
t h e spaces b e twee n t h e trun k and arms wh e re
h e r hands we re place d up on h e r hips and h e r
e lbows e xte nd e d as s h e st oo d facing the o b

,
se rve r S h e was in exce llent he alth but as

.
,
might be surmise d from the shape of the Aura

had a hyste rical te m pe ram e nt .
As sh e was not conversan t with the process of

w illing w e th o u g h t it a dvisabl e t o c o mm e nce
,
with try in g to obtain rays from diff e re nt p arts

of the body T his sh e accomp lish e d with out
.
much difficulty but as the expe rim e nts diff ered

,
from th ose in th e last case by only minor va ria

ti ons th e y wi ll not be quoted ; h oweve r it is
, ,
worth mentioning that th e first ray took the

longest time to induce while e ach successive ,
one was quicker unti l the l ast ray fl ashed out

,
almost instantaneously As sh e was ab le to s ee
.
t h e Aur a e asily she w as als o abl e t o perceive

,
the rays quite distinctly som e tim e s e ven before

,
t h e o bse rve r c o uld . B y this tim e sh e seemed

“
at willi n g s o s h e c o mm e nce d e nde av
”
a u a it
f ,
o ur in g t o i n d u ce c o l o u r change s of t h e Aura .
B e cause it would be use less to have m e rely an

abstract ide a of a col our an d as it wou ld re
,
quire the e xpe nditure of a con side rable am ount

of e ne rgy to c onvert t h e abstract into a concret e
idea especially in t h e case of a n ovice at the
,
.
wo rk s h e was sh own a b ook w ith a re d cover

, .
E X PE RI M E N T 1 —
. S h e stood faci n g the o b
serve r with h e r han ds up on her hips and he r
elbows extended so that th e re S h ould be a S pace

,
bo unded en tirely by th e trunk and arms S he .
was re que sted to w ill the Aura in the left space

to becom e a c olour (darke r p o rti on of crimson
alizarin ) c o rresp ondin g to the bo ok I n ab out .
a minute sh e said S h e could see t h e Au ra

change d in h ue be i n g a scarlet re d but could
, ,
n o t make t h e same c o lour as the bo o k After .
wards sh e pointed out sca rle t vermilion as the

colour h e r Aura had assumed Wh a t appe a re d .
to the observe r to occu r w as this A t first , .

bl e t h e sam e tin t as was p e rce ive d in t h e fir st
p osition I t is inte re sti n g to n ote that anoth e r
.
obse rve r at a diffe re n t i nspe cti on saw this van ,
is hin g and re tu rn of the Aura in t he same man

n e r as has j ust be e n d e scrib e d .
E XPE RI M E N T 2 S h e w as n ow de si red t o will

.
-
the right space by t h e si de of the trunk a blue

col our which S h e did with c omparative e ase
, .
T h e c o lou r of t h e bl ue o btaine d was th e d arke st

shade of pe rman e n t blue After rai smg he r
arms and placin g h e r ha n ds b e hind h e r ne ck ,
t h e Au ra o n t h e right side c o ntinued blue ,
while o n t h e l eft si de it still re ta ined the re d

shade e ve n d own t h e thigh and l e g C e rtainly .
it was a we ird sight se e ing a haze on on e side

,
of a p e rson re d and on the other side blue .
E XPE RI M E N T 3 — While still standing with he r

.
arms up s h e trie d to will th e Aura on th e left

,
’
side ye ll ow S he said she could s ee plainl y that

, .
col o ur but t o the obse rver the h ue alth o ugh

, ,
chan g e d n e ve r becam e a true ye ll ow The

, .
ne are st col o ur w e have to it is the darke st ,
shade of roman ochre T he nam e s of these .
co lours have be en take n fr om the specimen

sh e et of colou rs of G Rowne y . Co Of the .
A P PEN D I X
col ours red ye llow an d bl ue the latte r is the
, ,
e asi e st t o will wh il e ye ll o w is t h e m o st d ifficult

, .
I nte resti n g as th e s e e xp e rim e n ts un d o ubte dly

ar e w e c o n si d e r th e m o n ly p re limi n ary to t h e
,
followin g crucial on e s which alth oug h not so

,
e ffe ctive ar e m o re val u abl e O u r chie f aim has

.
bee n all al on g to obtain a col oured ray e ma n a

ting from a circumscribe d are a p art of a large ,
p lan e surface not from an y p roj e ction of the

,
body Be side s ce rtai n othe r cond iti on s a re abso

.
,
lut e l y n e ce ssary fo r o u r purpose t h e first be i n g

, ,
th at th e Aura surrounding the ray shall n o t be

i n fluen ce d at all o r at th e m ost to a ve ry S light
, ,
e xte n t .T his m e a n s that t h e p ati e nt must be

able to con ce n trate th e will p ower up on a ve ry
small spot A se con d con diti on is th at t he ray
.
sh all procee d outwards at rig ht ang le s to the

body n d com e strai gh t towards th e obse rve r
, a .
I n all pro bability t h is will cause t h e ray to be

i nvisible in t h e o rdinary w ay owing to the fact,
th at th e skin make s a ba d background L astly .

,
that th e p atie n t can ke e p th e ray unalte re d fo r

a suffici ently l on g time fo r it to be critica lly
examin ed by th e ai d of seve ral C C bands . . .
A s we were aware of all th e se inherent diffi

cul t ie s, we re a g re e ably surprise d at t h e re sults
we
of th e first trials wh ich we re due n o t a little to

,
t h e painstaking e ff o rts of t h e patie n t w h o be , ,
fo re the y we re fin ish e d w as be gi nn ing to los e

,
h e r will p ow er fro m fatigue H e r powe r of p e r

.
ce iv in g t h e c o l o ure d rays was a ve ry gre at h e l

p
as she co u ld i nf o rm us wh e n t o look fo r th e m .
E XPE RI M E N T 4 — F or t h e first trial a small

.
,
are a half o n t h e right bre ast an d half ove r th e

ste rn um w as ch ose n and sh e w as aske d to will
,
t h e Au ra at this place r ed Within a min ute

.
s h e s a id s h e could see t h e spot r e d whil e it was ,
c omple tely in visible to th e obse rve r Howe ve r .

,
whe n looke d at by m e ans of th e C C bands it . .

,
could be see n darker when the ye ll ow o r blue

ban d w as e mployed and lighte r with the red
ba n d .
E XPE RI M E N T 5 . Th e next te st w as fo r her to

-
w ill a small area n o t e xcee di n g an inch in di
a me t e r som e wh e re o r o th e r up o n t h e abd o me n
, ,
to be com e re d on ly she was n o t to te ll th e posi

,
tion of the sp ot D ire ctly sh e said S he could

.
pe rce ive the place col oure d w e e xamined the ,
abd omen with the blue C C band and alm ost . .
immedi ate l y detected a darker sm a ll spot a ,

32 4 IN D E X
A ura, in m
al e s , c oarse r
in w o an m
in w o an m fi , ne r
i t uc ti h w t fi d
ns r on s o o n
limi t ti f d i g tic g t
a ons o , as a nos a en
m dific ti f
o a on s o .
narro w
o f ph l gm tic chil d
e a ren
o f quic k d i t lli g t c h il d
an n e en re n .
p ti l l g m t f
ar a e n ar e en o
p i ti
os f p ti t
on o a en
re ct gul w h ti t i lt d
an ar en n s a e re
s h ap e of
c
s our e s o f 1 47 , 27 9
s r t uc tu re o f
te x ture o f t ;
the ory o f
trans i ti onal
l tw i d
une qua on o s es
u ymm t ic l
ns e r a
v ib t i f
ra on s o
w id e .
A u ic f c
r or e
f c i flu c d by w ill
or e n en e
p t ti lo en a
y g
ra t d by b dy
s, e ne r a e o
Aut l umi u
o - ub t
no c s s s an e
B ack grounds b l ack ,
w h ite
B l ue A n tw e rp
.
bli nd .
Prus s i an
B ronch i ti s
IN D E X 325
P A GE
C alci um , su l ph i d e of 1 06
1 22
C C B and s 126
lt ti f l
. .
a era on o co our in 1 31
se p ti b t war a on e e e n th e tw o s h d
a es of 145
th tic l g ci
e o re a a e n e s in 1 33
C he s t d i se as es of 27 5
C l ai rv oyants
,
1 , 91
C l oud m agne tic I
, . 94
C o al r ed ho t
, 74
C o l our bli ndne s s te mpor ary , 1 18
Col ours co mp l e m e n tary 1 20, 231
comp l e mentary alte rati on b dy
,
, of , o ve r th e o . 145 ,
234 238 ,
c mpl m t y lt ti f i x
o e e n ar , a e ra on o , n se ua l f cti 234
un o ns
c mpl m t y i x mi ti f pi
o e e n ar , n e a na on o s ne 237
c mpl m t y v tic ll y mp l y d
o e e n ar , er a e o e 233
x mi ti f e a na on o 71
p im y r ar 120
p im y p l
.
r ar , e r s on a 1 16
C one s 1 09
C on e n g it l ff c t th ugh h d i ty
a e e ro e re . 65
E du c ti f c ta on a a or 65
E l ct icity
e r 93
Em ld g
e ra r ee n 1 22
E mphy m se a . 27 8
Ep il p y e s 158 223
,
E th ic d bl
er ou e 21 , 6 6
t p t r an s ar e n 75
Ex mi a ti f p ti t w ith c mpl m t
na on o a en o e e n ar y col our s , 1 23 23 1 , 237
,
l Ex p e r ime n ts 1 2 3 4 69
, , ,
32 6 IN D E X
Ey e s , b
a nor m a ll y s ens i ti ve to c l
o our
F ib ro -ad e no i d s
F or c e auric N o
, , . 1
Func ti onal
Galv ani c haze

Ga mb o ge .
t iti c ic
Gas r s , h ron
il ic l
G r s hy s te r a
,
lb ic
G o us hy s te r us
Gr anul e s
m
Gre e n, E eral d . .
H e mi p l e gi a
H e r e d i ty
H e rp e s zos te r 19 5, 201
H i p joi nt .
Hys te ria
I nne r A ur a
d i s t i nc t f r o m Oute r A ura
c chi g
e n ro a n on Oute r A ura
t ti y
s a on ar
I ns p e cti o n, s y t m t ic
s e a .
3 28 IN D E X
Pre g
c y ch g f A u
n an , an es o ra dur i ng
d d c h il d d i g ea a nos e d in
ig f l y s ns o e ar
P i bl
rus s an ue
P plur vi l e, s ua
Py i ro s s
Rad i c ti v i ty
o -a
Ra y mit t d f m
s, e e ro h and o f on e p e r s on to h and of a no th e r
p e r son
in A ur a
N
igi f or n o
p c d i g f m b dy
ro e e n ro o
ti g d w ith c l un e o o rs
R ch phy ic l
e s e ar , s a
Rh d p io o s n
R d o s
Rud im t y t uc tu f I
e n ar s r re o nne r
S ci tic
a a
blu p l e, a e
c mi ( ligh t )
ar ne
clu d u f
o o re , se o
c mul ti v ff ct
u a e e e of
r ed .
s p e ct aur an ine
S e nsiti v es .
S htig m t d v l p d
, os e e o e s e ns e
f cl i v y
o t a r o an s
IND E X 329
S p e ct aur anine
c mp iti
o os on o f
bl th
e na es e A ur a to be seen
S pe ct m c l
ru , o our s o f , no t th e sa m ff ct b y g light
e e e as
S t d d qi
an ar , re u re d
S t m ch
o lc
a , u er of
S t i ti
r a on
lt
U r a Oute r A ur a
im i
Ur an u n tr ate
V i s i on su bje c ti v e
Wil l p w- o er 1 01 , 1 05, 125, 27 9 , 307 , 31 1

2 REBMA N
’
S AN ALYTI CA L CA TALOG UE
Par t V .
—
F . g i l gy ( Figu
An e o o re s 9 33 to Wi th
I nd e x . P ic r b d i cl th
e, oun n o ,
t
Par VI .
-
G N . l gy —H Th
e uro o . . e Or g ans o f th e S ens e s
( F i gu re s 1 1 24 t With I d
o n e x Pr ic e,
C m pl t
.
o e e
BLOOD
H I —
E B L C H AN EM I A —M any cl o o r ed illu t ti
s ra on s .
Pric e,
S C H L E I F —H e m t l g c l A tl
a o o i a as P ic r e,
BRAIN
H OLLA N D E R — B RA I N ic D I S EA S ES Pr e,
KR U S S URGERY OF THE B RA I N With 63 illu t

A E — — s ra
ti 48 f w hich i c l
on s , o V l I P ic ar e n o ors . o . r e,
TA N Z I —A TE X B OOK OF M ENTA L D S A S S 1 32
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TH E HUMAN AT MOSPH ERE

AURA MAD E VISI BL E BY T H E A I D OF

PRIN TED IN A M ERI C A

T HE perce ption of the H uman Atmosphere

al means ,at once makes the phenomenon a

see ing t he h uman atm osphe re I determined ,

to investigate the subj e ct apart from all oc

an y accounts of the Aura until a large numbe r

A s all the descripti o ns and references to the

tion in occult Works a nd aﬁorded little assist

ance to ph ysical investigation I have decided

to insert n o quotations T his resolution places

me in a peculiar position of having n o a utho ri

advantage and a disadvantage in others

T he titl e of H uman Atm osphere a happy -

subtle invisible e manation e fﬁuv ium o r e x

hal ation from a substance as aro ma of ﬂ owe rs , ,

Webster s D icti o nary — is c o nﬁ d t o

people possessing som e kn owledge of occultism .

Th e word Aur a has h owever been retain e d fo r

would be misleading when used a lone and ,

wh en combined with H uma n is t o sa y the

least cumbe rsom e

Afte r what has been said about t he desire to

strange that the expre ssi on Etheric D ouble

from th e osophic b ooks as n o appropriate te rm ,

has as y et b een de vise d .

C O M PLE M ENTA RY COLOU RS

1 7 . Epi le pti c Aur a

ﬂti —Bo y , te n y e ars O l d

30 —W o m n ﬁfty e i ght y e ars O ld

HA RDLY o n e pe rson in te n th ousand is aware

m ately connected with t h e body Wh e ther aslee p ,

o r awake whethe r h ot o r cold which although

invisible under o rdin ary circumstance s can be ,

seen wh e n con ditio ns are favourable T his .

mist the prototype of the halo o r nimbus

constantly depicted aroun d th e saints h as be en ,

m anife sted to ce rtain indivi d uals po ssessing a

ce nt l y to n o o ne e lse Th e cloud o r atmos

ph e r e ,or a s,it is generally term e d Aur a is the , ,

pe rceive d by t h e empl oym e nt of screens con

m ake not the slightest claim to clai rvoyancy ;

p e a t e d by a ny o n e w h o take s su fﬁcient inte rest

As long as th e faculty of perceiving the Aura

pe ople h ave no means of c o rroboration or refuta

has be en the case up t o the present time the ,

subj e ct has always been l ooke d on aska nce ; but

ploy th a n in distinguis hing microbes by the a id

of t he mic roscop e The m a in diffe rence lies I n

the claim of some people th at they are abl e to

hardihood t o assert th at they h ad the power of

the deductions m ay be thought a nd perh aps ,

rightly t o be t oo d o gm atic since they are

founde d upon such a sm a ll n umber of c ases ;

T h e disc o very of a scr een capabl e of making

w e were fo r s o me tim e e xperimenting o n t h e

mechanical fo rce of certa in e manati on s from

Wh e th e r rightl y or wr o ngl y that w e had de

t e ct e d two forces besides h e at that c o uld a ct

upon our needles and th at these fo rces were

situated in the ultra red portion of the spe c

T here w a s a hitch in o ur e xperiments ; a nd ,