The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-23
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rested their misery and destruction
4 This discovery extracts from their bo
dies atom by atom, every particle 0
4 metallic substance, from every part %
the human system, Where do we get
this great hope? In amanoir presents
led to the French. Academy of Science
by NJ Dumas, which has for its sauthers
two men, whose names will strike the
FEARS of the public for the first time to,
Eday. But if they prove what they
promise to, they viii soon take rank
Eamong the greatest benefaetorss of hui
Emanity.S These authors are Andre Poly,
of Havana, and Maurice Yergnes.-
The esinvention consists of an application
of chemical electricity to accomplish
the above purposes, and of all the mar
FveIloas things that electricity has a.
tchieved, ! this is the boldest and most
triumphant Ezssz
The modus operandi is as follows A
metallic bath is insulated from every
thing, and partially filed with acidula-
ted water, to convey more readily the
electrical currents The patieut lies
upon a seat insulated entirely from the
bath When gold, silver, mercury is
in the system, nitric or hydrochloric
acids are employed. When lead is sus-
pected, the acid used is sulphuric.--
This done, the negative pole of a bat
terry is lut in, connection with the bath.
while the positive pole is in the hands of
the patient. Now the work of purif-
cation commences. The electricity pre-
cipitates itself, hunts, digs, searches and
discovers every particle Of metallic sub
stance concealed in the most profound
tissues, bones, joints and nerves of the
patient, resolves them entire in primi
tive FERNS, and extracting them entire
from the human organism, depozits
them upon the sides of the bath, where
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they can be seen with the naked eye,
After the end of one of these. opera,
tions, chemist of HAVANA, M- Eos
sane, > having analysed 9I2 drachms of
the liquid in the bath, he saw forming a
metallic gIobule of the diameter Of nine
tenths of a amilliDetre and this was mer-
curry. At another time the same chem
list saw very light white precipitated
substance which gave two globulcs of
metallic lead perfectly visible to the
naked eye, and NJ. Poly announced that
he had taken from the tibia and thigh
bone of q patient quantity ofmercury
that had been there, creating intense
suffering for fifteen years.
Providence has had its usual hand in
this discovery. One of the inventors,
NJ. Maurice Yergnes, who was engaged
at times in electric gliding, silvering,
&C., where his hands came in continual
contact with nitrate and cyanuret of
gold and silver, had them covered with
ulcers, caused by particles of the metal
being introduced into his blood, and no
medical skill, could, eradicate them.
One day he dipped his hands into the
bath, taking hold of the positive pole
of the battery, and at the end of fifteen
minutes, to the surprise of the bystand-
ers, metallic plate of ,163 millimetres
in length by 100 in width, placed in con-
nection with the negative pole of the
battery, was instantly covered with a
thick coat Of gold and silver extracted
from his hands. The discovery was
made. This event took place April 10,
1852 The inventors use thirty couples
Of batteries of Bunson's and Groves
combined, it being found that a more
energetic current will be evolved by
this combination than by the use of
either singly. Each couple is forty mil
limeters by 2l7 in hight. The number
Of these couples or batteries at the COM
of an application, so as not
20 cause too much suffering for the pa
:ient depends altogether upon the tenn
,erament of the patient and the nature
If the disease. For example, avery
,ervous or delicate person. would be
to the action of ten or twelve
couples every FIVE minutes. A person
# sanguine orlymphatic temperament
an endure more The same ratio ap-
lilies to the quality of acid in forming
he bath; for instance it takes less for
nervous person than for a person of
EMPHATIC or sanguine temperament.-
The metallic particles extracted from
he body of the patient are deposited on
he whole surface of the bathing tub,
the metal is formed in larger
Quantities opposite those parts of the
ody in which the metal lay concealed.
IS to the size of the metallic spots
7hich are thus formed by the applica-
ion of this discovery, they vary in size
rom that of the size of pin to the
ize of a pea, and some are micsoscopic
I have seen,' says Mr.. Poly, & after the
rst bath of a person who had been COM
laining of terrible pains in his arm,
aused by mercury, the exact shape of
he arm imprinted on the negative plate
f the battery-the deposit being form
d entirely of mercury drawn from the