ELECTRICITY AS A CURATIVE

Evening Star, Issue 19923, 20 July 1928, Page 2

ELECTRICITY AS A CURATIVE

We have frequently drawn the attention of our readers to the claims of electricity as a health giver (.says ‘ The Unit’), and on more than one occasion quoted extracts from the opinions of eminent doctors in support ol these claims. The subject was touched upon recently in the columns ot a London newspaper by a writer who explained very ciearly and simply how electricity conid be used as a curative for many ills. The electricity necessary for file and tne buiidmg up and maintenance ol the human organism was generated, he said, in the body itself as long as the use of it did not exceed the normal; but the continuous struggles and worries ol modern life, and over-exer-tions of a physical or mental nature caused the use of electricity to become excessive. If this was not replaced by a prolonged stay at the seaside, in the mountains, or in the country, very serious damage to the health may result. Lassitude, lack of energy, timidity, irritability, excitability, nervousness, headache, backache, sleeplessness, bad complexion, w’rinkles and lines were premature sighs of diminution of vitality. In this condition resistance to disease was considerably lessened. The write- continued: “Medical science has long realised that failing life electricity can be restored to the body by external means, and in the course of time has developed methods and designed apparatuses serving the end of supplying the electricity lost by the individual. Experiences now covering twenty years have proved that in the restoration of nervous strength by electricity high frequency current is incomparable. (High 'frequency currents are currents that in every second change their direction from 500,000 to 1,000,000 times.)” High frequency sets for the application of electricity to the body were previously very expensive, and were only used in hospitals and by doctors; but now they are made in a portable and compact form, so that they can be acquired by almost anyone, the price being within the reach of the most modest purse.