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A GREAT MEDICAL DISC0VERYS-MER.
curry TAKEN FROM THE SYSTEM
BY ELECTRICITY.


The following will DO received with intense in
terest i'll every community where suffering of any
kind is produced by metallic substances being in
troduced into the system in the way Of mercury,
gold, silver or lead. If it is practically true, as
scarcely any one can doubt, under the circum-
stances, it is destined to rank among the great
est discoveries that science has yet brought to
light. &C..
entifc Bulletin of Paris, is entitled The Applica-
ton of Chemical Electricity to Therapeutics and
has been translated for this paper. Though not
literal, the substance Of the article is intact. The
Bulletin says:
chemistry is about to drag from an anticipated
death, thousands of men, who, in the exercise of
their cruel profdssions-gilding, looking-glass plat
ing, white lead manufacturing, &c, and also those
whose systems have been ruined by mercury in its
various iOrms-for these science has raised her
right arm and arrests their misery and destruction.
This discovery extracts from their bodies, atom by
atom, every particle of metallic substance, from
every part OF the human system. Where do we
get this great hope? In n memoir presented to
the French Academy of Sciences by VI. Dumas,
which has for its authors two men, whose names
will strike the ear OF the public for the first time
to-day. But if they prove what they promise to,
they will soon take rank among the greatest ben
efactors of humanity. These authors are Andre
Poly, of Havana, and Maurice Nergnes. The
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electricity to accomplish the above purpose, and
of all the marvellous things that electricity has
achieved, this is the boldest and most triumph
ant.
The modus operandi is as follows;
A metallic bath is insulated from everything,
and partially filled with acidulated water, to con
vcy more readily the electrical currents. The
patient lies upon Il seat in the tub, insulated en-.
TREY from the bath. When gold, silver or mer-
curry is in the system, nitric or hydrochloric acids
are employed. When lead is suspected, the acid
used is sulphurlc. This done, the negative pole OF
il battery is put in connection with the bath, while
the positive pole is in the hands Of the patient.
Now the work Of purification commences. The
electricity precipitates itself, hunts, digs, searches,
and discovers every particle of metallic substance
concealed in the most profound tissues. bones.
Joints and nerves of the patient, resolves them into
their primitive forms, and extracting them entire
from the human organism, deposits them upon the
sides of the bath, where they can he seen with the
naked eye.
After the end of one of these operations, n
chemist of Havana, NJ. Morsand, having analyzed
9l2 drachms of the liquid in the bath, he saw
forming Il metallic globulc of the diameter Of nine
tcnths of Il millimetre and this vas mercury. AT
another time the same chemist saw IL very light
white precipitatcd substance, which gave TWO el0b.
ule5 Of metallic lead, perfectly visible to the naked
eye, and NJ. Poly announced that he had taken from
Tue llD4i anu tiilSu DOnc OF Il patient, u quantity ui
mercury that had been there, creating intense suf-
fering for fifteen years.
Providence has had its usual hand in this dis
covery. One of the inventors, NJ. Maurice Nerg.
mes. 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, tax
ing hold Of the positive pole of the battery, and
at the end OF fifteen minutes, to the surprise Of
the bystanders, a metallic plate Of l63 MILNE
tres in length by 100 in width placed in cunnec
ton with the negative pole of the battery, WA,
instantly covered with a thick coat Of gold and
silver extracted from his hands. The discover,
was made. This event took place April Ii, 1852
The inventors use 80 couples of batteries of Bun
sons and Groves combined, it being found tina
; IL more energetic current will be evolved 6y thi
combination than by the use Of either singlv.-
Each couple is ~ millimetres in diameter by q
l in height. The number of these couples or hat
; teries used at the commencement of an applici
c ton, SO as not to cause too much suffering for tn,
{ patient, depends altogether upon the Temperament
: Of the patient and the nature of the disease. Fo
u example, a very nervous and delicate person wOuit
t be submitted to the action of ten or twelve cOuple
= at first, the number increased at the rate of fy
u couples every five minutes. A person of sanguiu
IT or lyinphptic Temperament can endure more. Tn
, same ratio applies to the quality ofacid in FORMING
the bath for instance it takes less for Il nervou
u person than tor a person with ly~mphatic or san
= guine temperament. The metallic PARTICLES cN
u tracted from the body Of the patient are deposite,
on the whole surface of the bathing tub. although
the metal is formed IN larger quantities oppo,it
u those parts Of the body in which the metal la
concealed. As to the size of the metallic spot
q which are thus formed by the application of thi
discovery, they vary in size from that of the hea,
OF a pm, to the size Of a pea, and some are micro
SCOPE,
1 have SEEM says NJ. Poly, after the first bat
y Of a person who had seen complaining of terriLl
pains in his arm, caused by mercury, the exac
u shape of the arm imprinted on the negative pla.
= OF the battery-the deposit being formed entirel
Of mercury drawn from the arm"
d Here ends this important article, which, if true
d is destined to become as much a part Of the med
cal practice as vaccination.