The Nevada journal., 1860-04-06
For the Nevada Journal.
GAEV&NisM,-No. 3,

is hnoHnl IL Will De Denenclal TO mank1nd-ls more
or less rapid in proportion as the experiment.
and study prove interesting. FROM the yeat
1900, after the Voltaic Pile became GENERALLY
known, many were the societies formed in France
and Germany, and even Russia, cold, semi-bar-
barian Russia, caught the electric spark stimu-
lating the nervous system of Professor jacob,
who wrote an article to the Atheneum that he
had found out method of converting any line,
by galvanie process, and that the Emperor had
placed funds at his the Professors disposal to
enable him to perfect his discovery. The socie-
ties published the results of their experiments
and theft combined experiences in the elements
of philosophy; in Paris, which proved SO as
founding that all the chemists of the English
school took up and carried out to perfection the
wonders obtained by galvanism: Their first eff
fort was to obtain perfect battery; Cruick-
shank, Spencer Jordan, Babbington, Wdllaston;
Daniel, Grove, and Since, made and improved
on eech others instrut,ent for manufacturing
purposes. By these they decomposed water
firstly, then they ascertained they could do the
same with all the metallic salts. While conduct
ing these experiments it was found that they de-
posted one metal on the suffdce of the other as
shown by the poles of the battery this led to
silvering and gliding on metals, which was con-
sequently more perfect and speedily executed by
this new method than by the old and more ex-
pensive process. Then solid articles in silver,
of plaster of Paris and other substances covered
with coating of plumbago or black lead, then
copying of engraving, printing, etching, etc.,
etc., and under the new name of electro metal
lurgy the uses of this wonderful science are so
numerous that it would be impossible to detail
them III the space which would be permitted in
newspaper. On the improvements as useful
BY the medical art the early societies so formed
vanic eontrivahtes to be worn by persons who
had been formerly treated by electricity. When
no sooner did they first appear under the form of
a series of jointed plates containing small cells
for acid, which was called voltaic plate chain,
TO be over the seat of the disease. although
almost useless, and was dangerous not alone to
the skin but the clothes of the wearer, as the
cells could not be so hermetically closed by
solder to keep the acid from exuding, still on
| their appearance the Empirical medical electri-
clans brought forward the wonder working gal
vanitical rings, bracelets, armlets, etc.. publish
| ing thousands of cures, so that eventually when
one member of the German school, in which I
was an associate, made the improvement in the
first chain batteries, we had to battle with the
Empiric, and of course found as much difficulty
in overthrowing the false science as there had
been to discover the true. Further improve
ments suggested themselves, and after years OF
study the present hydro electric chain was per-
fected, which, in the hands of a practical physi-
clan is invaluable, curing or relieving almost all
complaints arising from the arrangement Of the
nervous system. Still it was arduous under
taking, as any apparatus with the name of chain
was considered valueless as on account OF the
failure in first described doubt had been thrown
on electricity itself or its therapeutic properties
but after time the Lancet and Medical Gazette
in England, and in the academy Of Medicine and
Elements Of Physicians, in France, of course the
German Elements of Therapeutics and all their
other medical and philosophical works, after due
testing by various members of the faculty Of
these countries, published long articles and pa
pers in favor of the use of these chains, copies
of which 1 have by me. They promptly
tested and found most simple but truly the most
wonderful in their action, and are the only sci
enti6e treatment for the cure of such diseases in
which electricity is recommended. In fact, till
we Invented the hydro-electric chains. and they
were satisfactorily proved, electric therapy, OF
the art of curing by electricity, was condemned
and in a state of confusion and impotence from
no other cause than the limited means placed al
its disposal, but it soon found the chains pow
erful auxiliary, producing either cont nuous
current or an intermittent current, with physi.
illogical and therapeutic effects in endless vari-
ety. Ii,