The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

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(For the other Letters on Medical Galvanism Invalids are so-
licited to send to Mr. liaise for his Pamphlet, which contains
them.)—See below.
FIALSE'S LETTERLS on MEDICAL GALVANISM.
GALVANISM.—How does Galvanism act in the cure of
Diseases? This is a question which is daily put to me, and the
following is my reply to it. Galvanism first acts by arousing
any nerve or organ from its torpid state, and then supplies
those parts with nervous energy, until they have acquired such
a healthy. state as no longer to require this extra supply. I
will explain myself still further. In cases of asthma and indi-
gestion, I invariably find that the nerves at the pit of the sto-
mach and at the top of the spine are in a such torpid state, that
the patient can hear a tremendous power without feeling the
least uncomfortable. In the course of a few days, however,
these nerves get roused, and the patient cannot bear half the
power; the nerves now conduct the galvanic fluid to those parts
which are deficient of it ; an extra secretion of gastric juice
takes place, the accumulation of phlegm is prevented, and thus
both the digestion and breathing are improved. By and by the
nerves get into a still more active state, and the body now
generates a sufficient supply of nervous influence for all its
functions. This is how galvanism acts in cases of indigestion
and asthma. It acts differently, however, in some cases of
sciatica and rheumatism, particularly in chronic cases ; here
it acts by removing the obstructions which the nervous fluid
meets within its passage along the nerves ; for it must be re-
membered that the nervous fluid travels quicker than even
light travels, and it can easily be imagined that wherever there
is an obstruction to its passage in that spot must there be a
pain. In paralysis how does it act 7 Just the same as it does
in cases of indigestion, or a paralysed stomach, for such it is.
It first arouses the nerves into action, and then supplies them
with nervous energy. Take a bar of iron, bend it in the shape
of a horse-shoe, coil some covered copper wire round it ; try
its magnetic power ; it has none ; it wants galvanic or nervous
energy. Now apply the ends of a wire to a Falvanic battery,
again try its magnetic ppwer, and lo ! it will sustain a ton
weight. The ungalvanizbd iron is the paralyzed limb, the
powerless limb : the galvanized iron the healthy. limb, the
powerful limb. The great beauty of Galvanism is, that in
nineteen cases out of twenty, it shows its beneficial effects be-
fore the patient has been with me a fortnight; and in ordinary
cases I find three or four weeks' galvanism quite sufficient.
How different this from all other systems ! My recent cures
of obstinate cases of indigestion have been so astonishing as to
astonish myself ; and, 1 contend, that no man or woman who
suffers from this distressing malady should neglect a moment
to try the remedial powers of galvanism. Indigestion is indeed
a distressing malady; it is the cause of tic doloureux, sciatica,
most nervous complaints, neuralgia, headaches, dimness of
sight, defective hearing ; in short, of almost every complaint.
I have had patients with the sensation of many hundred eightw
on the top of the head; others as if their brain were continually
stirred up with a spoon ; others again, with toads, serpents,
and all sorts of noisome reptiles continually before their eyes ;
and others with a continual discharge of artillery inside their
heads; with an endless variety of the oddpst sensations imagi-
nable, and which it would be almost impossible for a person
who has been in a state of continual health to have any idea of.
Now, i P all those cases, I have found that the cause was a de-
rangement of the digestive organs, and in proportion as the
organs were restored to health, so would all these odd fancies
vanish. I have lately had a lady with me who had some know-
ledge of chemistry, and this knowledge was tested in a very
peculiar way. She knew that the atmosphere was composed of
oxygen and nitrogen gases; that the oxygen was the vital air,
and the nitrogen the poisonous air. Well, she took a fancy
into her head that her lungs and body had such an affinity for
the poisonous air, that she breathed nothing else, and that her
body was surrounded by an atmosphere of nitrogen only. This,
she said, was the cause of all her sufferings; and that unless I
could alter the electrical state of her body, so that she might
have as much affinity for the oxygen as the nitrogen, I should
never cure her. Her stomach was in a most dreadful state. I
tried to reason her out of her foolish ideas, but I found it would
not do, and I am convinced, for the hundredth time, that it is
but labour lost to ae with a deranged stomach. I galva-
nized the stomach, and in one week she declared that the elec-
trical condition of her body was changed, and that she inhaled
the oxygen as well as the nitrogen. The fact is, her stomach
now began to perfectly digest foon, healthy blood was formed,
and healthy ideas manifested themselves. I think it right I
should state, that before this lady came to me, she bad been
using for several weeks one of those ridiculous galvanic instru-
ments which shopkeepers are in the habit cf selling at two
pounds or three pounds each. Its effect on her (as on all others
who have used them) was to aggravate her complaint exceed-
ingly. I cannot too strongly caution parties against the use of
those instruments. WILLIAM HOOPER HALSE,
22, Brunswick-square' London.
GALVANISM.—InvaIids are solicited to send to Mr. W. H.
HALSE, of 22, Brunswick-square, for his pamphlet on MEDI-
CAL GALVANISM, which will be forwarded free on receipt of
two postage stamps. They will be astonished at its contents.
In it will be found the particulars of cures in cases of asthma,
rheumatism, sciatica, tic doloreux,paralysis, spinal complaints,
headaches, deficiency of nervous energy, liver complaints, ge-
neral debility, indigestion, stiff joints, all sorts of nervous
disorders, &c. Mr. Halse's method of applying the galvanic
fluid is quite free from all unpleasant sensation ; in fact, it is
rather pleasurable than otherwise, and many ladies are ex-
ceedingly fond of it. It quickly causes the patient to do without
medicine. Terms, One Guinea per week. The pamphlet con-
tains Mr. Halse's Letters on Medical Galvanism.