ELECTRICITY AND HEALTH

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7802, 5 September 1903, Page 3

ELECTRICITY AND HEALTH

Few people realise what a wonderful curative agent hats been brought into. our . livos — if otily we know how to use it — by the electric current contained in' tihe twisted, silk-covered wires that supply our fefeotrie lamps. I was surprised the oKhen" day (says the " Science Notes " writer of the "Daily News") on visiting a medical practitioner in North London to find how much the modern doctor xelies on electricity to help him in his work. The walls of the consttlting-room. were adorned wi#a * bewildering variety of apparatus of coiled wtroe aaud glass tubes and^ lighting-rods and jars and vulcanite, wUicb took up so much spaoe that it overflowed into the drawing-room. . In one jplaoe was a sorb of , glass-covered switch-board, surmounted by two globe lamps, by which the current , could be passed through the body by holding a plated tube in each hand. By various adaptations the, current could be> turned on, either in a gentle, continuous flow of any desired strength, or in short, quick vibrations, or in pulsations, the speed at which could be determined by a regulator like tho metronome of the miusicdan. It was curious to know that the energy keeping the two. lamps alight was actually ,passing through one's body! But tihis was simplicity itself compared with tihe complex ma ( oMnery necessairy for applying the . "high-frequency "treatment, by which docfors^ have been able to refine out of Nature's most djesfcructive force a subtle energy, almost identical with the vital force that fills our bodies.