Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)
Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 177
he (esophageal tube,the washing out of the stomach, and the illumination of the latter organ by theelectric light. It sometimes happens tliat sword swallowers who exhibit in public squaresand at street corners are, at the same time, swallowers of pebbles, like himwhose talents were utilized by… … VAUIOUS APPAKATUS FOl! SWOKD SWALI,OWEKS. FIRE EATERS AND SWORD TRICKS. 161 afterward disgorging them one by one through a simple contraction of thestomach. Here Ave have a new example of the modification of sensitivenessand function that an individual may secure in his organs by determination…
Magic tricks
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