Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26
ELECTRICITY CURES.
Why It Is for the Interest of the Profession
That the Public Be Kept in Comparative
Ignorance of Its Power.

Why It Is for the Interest Of the Profession
That the Public Be Kept in Comparative
Ignorance of Its Power.
The wonderful remedial effect of cleo
tricity, when properly applied, upon various
diseases, and the costly and intricate ma
chinery needed Tor this application
are well known to the profession, but
the general public have but a slight
knowledge of them. The immense
cost of this electrical machinery-for to be
of service electricity must be properly and
scientifically applied-has been one OF the
greatest factors in debarrfng sufferers from
a knowledge of its wonderful results, as
well as from participating in its beneficial
influence. The best paid practitioner in
the profession cannot afford to invest thou-
sands of dollars in machinery and app!i-
ances for the purpose of giving his
patients treatment by this great agent.
While the physician ana surgeon follows with
intense interest the wonderful development
of electricity in the alienation and cure Of
disease, and bitterly regrets his inability to
give his patients the benefit of these dis
coveries, it is not to his interest to explain
or extol to his patrons the benefit they
could derive from a remedy which he is too
poor to employ.
In the great centers of civilization
throughout the world this difficulty has
been overcome, in part, by the establish
ment of central electrical and medical insti-
tutes, with the machinery and appliances
necessary for the proper treatment of dis
eases which electricity has demonstrated its
power to cure or alleviate. These institutes
are placed in charge of physicians, thorough
ly trained in general practice but who have
made special study of the power of electric
ity upon the human form and who best
know how, when and where to apply 1t.
These Institutes have been of the greatest
aid to the profession in the larger cities, as
the wider practitioners at once avail them
selves of these opportunities and thousands
and thousands of patients in these cities
now realize the advantages OF electricity as
medical agent
These institutes, or central plants" met
with such success and were so beneficial that
they have gradually been extended, and
some time ago one of the best in the world
was established in this city. 1t is located at
5O7 Penn avenue, and in charge of physicians
and surgeons who have been thoroughly
tested for their fitness, not only in the gem
eral practice of medicine, but especially for
their experience and intelligence IN the ap..
plication of electricity i'll the cure of
disease. Gentlemen of the highest order OF
intelligence, graduates of the best medical
colleges of the world, patient students and
practitioners In medical and surgical cleo
tricity for years, they are entirely and COM
petently equipped with the latest and most
costly machinery-numbering not one but q
hundred different tapplianceSand costing I'M
mense sums of money--to treat the large
number of diseases which electricity cures,
and aids TO cure.
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The physicians and surgeons in charge Of
the Electropathic Institute, at 597 Penn ave-
nue., in this city, have been selected for their
success in general practice and electrical
speciality with great care for yet another
reason. Frequently physicians in practice
in city are so skillful as to be loa5h to al
low any of their patients to pass from under
their immediate control, even when they
are morally certain that electricity is the
medicine the case demands. In numbers OF
such cases the patient applies directly to the
Electropathic Institute, with a full conf
dence that his case will be diagnosed as
thoroughly and correctly, and his internal
treatment administered as intelligently and
scientifically as from any physiciOn in the
city, while all the benefit of all the ages,
of wonderful inventions and large expendi-
ture of moneys in electrical developments
will be his also.