Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-07
THE TOPICAL IALkER.
The Curative Qualities of Eiectricity-Au
Experiment With tho New Force-A
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The Curative Qualities of Eiectricity-Au
Experiment With tho New Force-A
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IT has been well said that the world is only
just beginning to scrape acquaintance with
| electricity. The mysterious element which no
man has yet been able to define is daily enter.
| ing into new uses. In the art of healing cleo.
tricity has been long employed, but only very
lately has it been regarded with favor by the
best physicians. A doctor of this city. who
combines conservatism with readiness to ac.
| cept the truth whenever and wherever he finds
| 1t, said to me yesterday: you cannot get Edi-
SON to tell you what electricity is; neither he
nor any other scientist can answer that ques.
| ton. So 1t is with physicians who are adopting
electricity In their practice. We see its effects
but we do not know yet what the particular and
peculiar action of electricity is. The results
| OF its use show it to be a powerful ally to the
physician and surgeon"
Can you give me an example of its curative
| power?' asked.
"Yes-a case in my own practice, A man
was thrown from wagon and fell with his
whole weight upon one hand. when he reached
my ofhce the confused hand had swollen to
twice or thrice its natural size. With his con-
sent instead of the usual treatment applied
electricity. His hand panied him terribly
before the application; he would hardly allow
me to touch it. Iapplied moderate current
internationally, and the effect was magical
After few minutes of the electric treatment
the pain went and he could bend his fingers
without the least Inconvenience. The swelling
also vsibly diminished rapidly. That evening
his hand was SO fully recovered that he curried
three horses. had warned him not to use the
nand, which swelled again and gave him con.
siderable pain. He came to me again and re-
peated the application of electricity. The
result was permanent cure. Ordinarily I
should have bandaged the wounded member
set 1t in splints and enjoined entire rest for a
week at least Electricity effected cure in
less than day"
FROM this and other important experiments
with electricity in his practice the doctor
quoted above has arrived at q general compre-
hension of its chief effects
The current of electricity" he said, ''seems
to have disposition to dIsintegrate and dispel
any abnormal matter 1t encounters in the
human system. That Is all that can be said for
certain of the new force applied curatively It
acts with nature up to q certain point. have
profound belief In the value of electricity as
a curative agent, and 1 believe that we hardly
have glimmering Of its tremendous potency
as yet"
HE newsboys who cried the evening papers
yesterday had double-barreed slogan
that was very faithfully descriptive. One boy,
whose voice sailed like a syren's song high
above the roar of Smithfeld street traffic,
phrased it thus: "An about the ball games
awful execution"
AS the Pittsburg clubs both suffered defeat
the allusion to Kemmler's taking OF applied
equally well to them.
TRYING!
'That color's very trying"
Her cavalier said
To Mary Anna, eyeing
Her dress of fiery red.
To which the maid replying
Said ''Sir, your slave agrees
My dress, there's no denying,
Is trying hard to please', Il. ].