The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-04-11 00:00:00

WYKS.
TUB MACKIRIL SLOON bu commenoed at Wyke.
On Monday 168 t, Mr. Hatcher's boot (alight 100 fish,
very fine indeed considering that it wee early in the

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ELECTRICITY AS • CURATIVE AGENT.
In theme days ot gelentillo program end investigation,
It is scarcely possible for any tolerably well-informed
person to be ignorant of the general properties of
galvsniain and electrieity, as applied to the hum=
frame. Thanks to the diligence Lad unwearied efforts
of =ley icientilio men, the enoouragement given to
Nkomo in our educational instructions, and by societies
of various descriptions, the leading principles of electric
and galvanic currents and their general chemical and
physiological effects have become generally known.
And where the latter are not known, there is still
newel, any one of ordinary knowledge, either in towns
or in the remotest country parishes, but who knows
lite shock imparted to him from • galvanic battery.
though the may not have understood the meioses of
eleedrieity. The power of eleetrisity or galvanism in
the treatment of nervous or functional disorders has
long been admitted by medical men, and the only
dillie ilty hitherto bee been es to the method of appli-
cation ; in fact, how to use this power in • oontinous
sad beoeficial maunsr. This problem appears to have
been solved by • careful thinker and investigator from
Germany, Ur. J. L. Polvermaoher. Electricity, as we
all know, plays an important part in the animal system
—that is to say, the vital forges in the body contain
electricity : and on the presumes, absence, or in•dequacy
of this subtle agent, depend corresponding conditions
of health. Bet there remained the unquestionable
difficulty of adapting the external posers of electricity,
so as to make them act in a congenial manner with
nerve force, and thee render them really curative, and
of furnidnog fatalities by which the eurrenta could be
modidel in deAree sad duration, so as to meet the
varying requirements of patients and dissaes —the old
method being 09.111b0110010, ill-regulated, and so much
beyond control, as to be of no value to medicine. Mr.
Pulvermacher here steps in with La Important invention,
which ime prove i an incalcalable boon to many person!.
His invention consists of galvanic chain bands, belts,
andflexible high tension batteries, which can be worn
on and about the body with bet little ineonvenience.
They are constructed altogether of metal, supplying
the oemponent elements of • battery, ad pat topther '
in such a manner as to combine extreme flexibility of
form with perfect continuity of electrical foroe when
applied to the body. They are constructed in •
nwvellougly 'Utopia meaner; but what strike' uses the
most valuable point in oonnection with the invention,
ia the fact that these bands Call be worn without the
least derangement of the palient's habits, or deity
oeoupation. In a word, the inflames of the electric
!laid is placed in harmony with the normal action of
the f auctions of the body, which are imperceptible
and continuous. There is not the slightest imputation
of empiricism attaching to Mr Pulvermacher ; in proof
of this we have the statements ot such eminent Merl aa
Sir C. Loco*, Phygician to the Queen ;Sir H. HolLand,
F. R. S., Physician to the Queen; Sir W. Ferguson,
F. KS. Surgeon to the game; Sir J. R. Martin, F. It,
S.; Dr. E. Sieveking, Physician lithe Prince of Wales;
Dr. It. Quain, and F. Seymour Haden. Surgeon to the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Fulvermarther's inven-
tion lea also received the approval of theAcadernio de
Modeeine, Perim ; the College of Physician., England •
the Imperial Faculty of Vienna, end of some later-
mo,lolll6l Exhibition Juricia The favourable opinion of
scab authorities is the beet reeommendetion, and
furnishes the highest testimonial that scold be given.
Such names will cisrry more weight than any farther
remarks of ours; and we have only to add that Mr.
Pcilvernmoher ell! visit Dorchester at the White Bert
Hotel on April 12 anti 13, where he will no doubt be
glad to egoists the action of hi. 'operetta, and parties
who choose to visit him will be convinced of the
advantage to be pined from his invention.