Contents

Prologue

PART I  From the Beginning…

  1.  Captured in a Bottle

  2.  The Deaf to Hear, and the Lame to Walk

  3.  Electrical Sensitivity

  4.  The Road Not Taken

  5.  Chronic Electrical Illness

  6.  The Behavior of Plants

  7.  Acute Electrical Illness

  8.  Mystery on the Isle of Wight

  9.  Earth’s Electric Envelope

10.  Porphyrins and the Basis of Life

PART II  … To the Present

11.  Irritable Heart

12.  The Transformation of Diabetes

13.  Cancer and the Starvation of Life

14.  Suspended Animation

15.  You mean you can hear electricity?

16.  Bees, Birds, Trees, and Humans

Photographs

17.  In the Land of the Blind

Notes

Bibliography

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