Electricity is the fountain, the great vivifying principle of nature : a source of life and health ; medicine the requisite accessory to that science an address / by Dudley Adams.

  • Adams, Dudley, active 1820.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Electricity is the fountain, the great vivifying principle of nature : a source of life and health ; medicine the requisite accessory to that science an address / by Dudley Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Administered medically, on a newly improved principle, and more efficaciously than hitherto practised. Eleotricitt will probably, some time, be considered as the great VivifyiDg Prin- ciple of Nature, by which she carries on most of her operations. It is a fifth element distinct from, and superior to, the other four, which only compose the material part. But this subtile, this Active Fluid, is a kind 0/Soui, that pervades, and quickens, CDerv particle of matter. • 1 > BRYDONE. iVlR. ADAMS;, in consequence of the most ear- nest solicitations, not to retire from the puUic, but to embrace the opportunity which presented itself, in the decease of the late Mr. Lowndes, electrician, and the subsequent sale of his appa- ratus, to adopt the science of medical electricity as a professional avocation; that the advantages arising from the said establishment should not be lost, but be continued for the benefit of the com- munity at large; has the honour to announce, that he effected the purchase of those justly re- nowned machines, esteemed the grandest, in point of magnitude and power, in Europe; that