The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-04-04
The ROENTCEN RAYS
econcluded from Third page)


Of administering electricity. and most
valuable to busy city jewellers. Is that
ADOPTED by several New York physl-
cans. who by the use Of Yariousiy
adapted discharges from static ma
4 chimes, succeed in making their patients
y take violent exercise, whether they WISH
4 to or not, and, indeed. without any 81
Y Tort On their part. Seated comtor'apy
! In q chair through which proper con
inectiQns have been made, an lnooient
or over occupied man OF anairs may III
fifteen minutes while ccmfortaoiy reaa.
ing his newspaper. get into ms pouy
< Through the smooth and pleasoh. INV y,
current as much essential benen' as II
4 he had galloped over country roaos lor
: half a day. or bent himself doupie row
4 Ing on o river.
y TO a person whose nerves have given
way through worry or stress OF anairs
there Is nothing more delightfu OF SOON"
Ing than to receive over the pouy the
cool breeze of electricity that flows
from one of the electrodes passed over
the arms and face and limbs, While to
4 bring the electrode into direct contact
q with the body through the clothing, and
then pass ii up and down, back and
i forth, touching every part, gives SEN
& sation that Is at once pleasant and slim
ulating, as IL millions of tiny needles
were tickling the skin in every pore and
crevice There follows from this sense
y OF delicious languor that speedily leads
to desire for sleep, and would bring
relief to the most stubborn case OF In
somnia- Halt the Ills of womankfnd
come from nervousness. which Is but
avague way of saying that they need
life force, nerve tonic, which is electrici-
ty.
And in cases of neuralgia or intense
local pain of whatever sort, the patient
finds immediate relief, besides perma-
nent benefit, on receiving the flow of
current from one OF the high frequency
machines devised for this purpose.
ELECTRICITY AS, A NfASsEUR.
And, as for massage effects, there Ia
certainly nothing that can compare with
the shocking of the muscles that ensues
when the patient lays his hand on the
brass ball OF one OF the large static ma
chimes, such as are used by DIR. William
j.. Morton, OF New York, and for ten or
Z fifteen minutes feels his arms twitching
with involuntary contractions, in nowise
unpleasant. which soon send a gentle
warmth over the whole surface OF the
body, and produce sense OF eXh!lira-
I ton that could otherwise be produced In
& a healthy person only by violent eXer-
else and in an invalid not at ALL More
than ono paralyzed arm or member has
s been Drought back to Its former useful
i ness by these applications, and women
whose ordinary vitality Is so low tina,
they are always shlvering have been
Drought into q fine glow, as delightful 10
them as it Is unfamiliar
one interesting application of electri-
cry IN surgery Is the telephone bullet
& probe, invented by Dr. John III Girdner
Z OF New York and adopted In all the hos.
y pi1als and armies of the world In this
81 mover device use Is made OF the ordinary
telephone principle. 1t being literally true
Sshat the surgeon discovers bullet i'm
q pedded IN tie body by hearing IL. Had
The electric bullet finder BEEN in exist-
s ence when Garribaldi and GARFIELD xvere
4 Ehot. IT Is likely that both these rreat
lives might have been saved. IT dnss
d IT'S WORK more quickly and easily than
even the Roentgen rays could.
No battery Is used in operating the
4 telephone bullet finder, the BODY Of tbs
patient himself be.rg made to SnrntsI,
the current necessary FOR working the
teiepnone sounder. This Is done on ,be
= 1asnaliar principle that whenever two
metals are placed In r liquid slightly
ecidulated, their external ends being
connected by conductor an electric
current is set up between them, passing
through the liquid and through Ehe cir,
cult. The human body with its moist
tissues, Is regarded as the LIQUID of com
tissues, is regarded as the LIQUID Ia two
per cent. solution of common salU. the
lead bullet imbedded in the body forms
- ~ 'tAS' iiesoi SuiIdceS. WINE an cleo.
Jrode OF aluminium inserted In the pa-
tlent's mouth forms the other. wire
connects the aluminium dectrode with
an alumanum-tipped probe of flexible
material, which is introduced into the
wound in the path of the bullet with
In the circuit is a. wire heading TO the
telephone sounder. made with double
helix and exceedingly sensitive. This
the surgeo'n adjusts to his ear while he
probes for the bullet.
Now 1t becomes plain how It Is posi-
BE to locate hidden bullet by hearing.
Tor no sooner does the aluminium tin Of
the probS come in contact with the lead
OF the bullet than the circuit is conn
pleted, the patients body is changed into
battery, the liquids of the tissues hay-
ing chemical effect upon the two met
ais. and the electric current which ia
set flowing forthwith acts upon the tele-
phone sounder In ,the ordinary way and
the surgeon knows by the sound that
his search has been successful. SO long
as the probe touches only the tissue or
bone or other substance If the BODY
the circuit is incomplete and the
Telephone sounder remains mute. but let
the two metals come together and inn
mediately q distinct and chara cteristic
buzzing Is heard and continues while
TIE contact Is maintained
IN cases where there Is no open wound,
but where bullet has been imbedded
In the body long enough to allow the
desh to heal, an aluminium needle is
used instead of the flexible probe. the
needle being inserted into the part Of
the hn6v yuharp Tho h,,llaf 10 i,ao-.- a.