The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-06
ELECTRICITY OF MAN,
By Professor W. M. Hand, NJ. d.. the Great
Medical Electrician of Salt Lake City, Utah.

III.
1t is generally supposed by medical men
that there are innumeraOle causes for the
various diseases that are in existence, and
that even one disease may have many
causes in nature to produce it. But be-
lieye that there is only one grand cause for
all disease. This is the disturbing of the
vital forces of the body. This vital force
] call electricity, the most subtle and fine
material of the body. 1t is the power that
moves the body. 1t is the agent by which
tue mind, through the nerves, contracts the
muscles and causes motion. When the cleo
tricity OF the body is equalized throughout
the nervous system, the blood will be equal
lied in its circulation and the natural re-
suit is health. But when the electricity is
thrown out Of balance, the blood is also dis
turOed aud the result Is disease. The med
ical man is much inclined to examine his pa
TENTS pulse aud watch the movement of
the blood. This is well enough, as by it he
can determine the velocity of the circulating
fluid. But they seem to think that nearly
all diseases originate in the blood, and
under this impression has arisen hundreds
of specifics or loStrumS to purify the
blood, as if it contained some foreign mat
ter that rendered it impure, and that they
must by medical treatment remove this
foreign matter from the system. But all
this is fallacIous. The blood contains no
foreign properties to render it impure; it
becomes impure only through the disturbed
circulation. Every particle of the blood in
the whole body must every few moments
pass through the lungs to be purified and
kept from putrifaction, and it can be puri-
fled by no other substance except what is
contained In the air at the lungs. That is
Oxygen and Electricity. If any part of the
blood is disturbed, so that it cannot make
its timely visit to the lungs, it becomes ex-
TRANSLATED and impure; and II any part Of
| il is DISTRACTED, then we have infiamma-
ton, liberation and suppuration.
| All diseases originate in the electricity
| of the nerves. then it is communicated to
| the blood. flesh and bones. 1t begins in
the finest and ends in the largest parts Of
the system. The operation of the mind
and the nervous system has been over
| looked by medical men; the brain is the
| fountain of the nervous system: it sends
| forth millions of branches TO every part
| of the body; this nervous system is filled
with electricity. Though there is but enc
grand cause Of disease, which is the cleo
| tricity of the system, thrown out OF
balance, there are two modes by Which it
may be done. 1t may be done by mental
| impression, or it may be done by physical
| impression, Thousands of our race every
year are swept from life to the darkness of
death by disease caused by mental impress
sion; the vital force is disturbed, the sys-
tenn is thrown out of balance, disease is
brought on, and they go to their graves.
In view of this fact it becomes the duty Of
medical men to study more carefully the
power the mind exercises over the body,
both as regards disastrous or a salutary
result. Hence it becomes practitioners Of
medicine to keep the brightest of hopes of
recovery before their patients. The heal
ing principle, then, is combination of
medicine electricity and mental impress
sion, which call the sanitary principles TO
the light and enables the system to do its
work