New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-15

ELECTRICTTY AS A MEDICNE.-Of all the wonder.
ful uses to which electricity has been put of late
years. there is none valuable than that by which
the subtle element is made to act the physician part
and drive diseases and humors such as defy the ordi
nary methods Of medical treatment triumphanty and
forever from the human system The application of
electricity and galvansm to certain classes of human
ament is becoming, by its invariabe success highly
popular throughout the country. One practitioner
in that department, whom we have in our mdst-Dr.
c. p Crane, at No. lag st. Joseph street-has been
so uniformly successful for several years past that we
may now regard him as fairly on the high road to
fame and fortune. Touching the application of elec,
trcity to medicine and DIR. Cranes practice in that
respect we append the following remarks taken from
| the columns of city cotemporary:
The application of electricity to medicine has long
occupied the attention of the medical world and the
identity OF the electric with the nervous fluid has
been theme of discussion in almost every convoca-
| ton of medical men on either continent while the
world has teemed with essays upon ESSAYS in proof of
the fact, until at last it has become settled notion
that the nervous system OF the animal organization
Is but telegraphic apparatus by which different Dor
tons of the animal are enabled to keep up commune
cation with each other, while the brain is the central
office which receives and transmits these messages as
directed.
Derangement of any one of the subordinate lines
may occur without materially affecting the general
organization, and though a line may be tempora
rily down." the general working still may be good
| While 1t must be admitted, and when admitted
regretted, that the faculty, whole have only in
dulged in general hypothesis on this subject vet
there have been few Adventures aud inuuisitiye
spirits who have gone further and reduced the
dial virtues OF this powerful agent to something like
| a system.
Accident did as much, perhaps, in directing intei
gent inquiries into the channel by which the medca
virtues OF electricity are being evolved, as it did il
directing Volta in the formation of his celebrated
electric pile, or Galyani in the formation of his bat
terry each observed certain phenomena to follow
invariably, after the application of certain agents o.
the Jdxtaposition of matters bearing a certain rea
ton to each other.
Nergnes followed in the track which had been ira
Versed by such lustrious predecessors Volta Gal
yani Franklin, Morse and host OF minor stars il
the roadot science, and evolved some new aud equa
important truths to the happiness and we-being 0
| mankind.
The consequences that have flowed from the ex
periments Of Vergnes yet to be developed TO tb
| world And 1t would be a source of genuine gratif
cation to many seekers after scientific truth If som
gentleman, who is really cOnversant with the subject
would trace the various steps by which it has arriveI
at its present degree of progress.
In our own midst there is one gentleman who /
thoroughly conversant with, this theme in all its re
lations. We mean DIR. C. P. Crane who is we know
most thoroughly acquainted with the whole subject
and we would be glad IL some one of the many scien
tlic societies in the city would invite him to ectur
before them.
In the meantime, the Doctors application of th
agent IN the treatment of chronic diseases has bee
prolific OF much good and is commanding much al
tentlon from the intelligent of all classes.