Electropathy : a new method of treating disease by electricity.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Electropathy : a new method of treating disease by electricity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing with those germs is a far better one than the tedious and always uncertain plan of disinfectants, however carefully applied. The principal object in thus dealing with disease- germs is, therefore, to maintain the vigour and vital forces of the system, whilst everything should be avoided which is calculated to lower the energies or reduce the constitutional vigour. Excesses of all kinds render persons who indulge in them less able to resist the attacks of disease, and individuals who have not exercised proper control over themselves; and have thus debilitated their constitutions.should promptly adopt measures to recruit the lacking energy, and more especially, to adopt such means as will restore the natural secretions. Now, we have already pointed out that whilst it is incorrect to say that Electricity is life, it is, nevertheless, a truth* that no vital functions are conducted without it, but that, on the contrary, all vital functions are associ- ated with it in the form of the continuous current The common idea of galvanism or electricity is, that it is something to make the muscles contract and jump. Now, we wish to point out that it is only the interrupted or induced current which does this, and that, in fact, the muscular contractions or spasms produced by the galvanic battery as usually applied are due not to the current, but to its sudden inter-