The record-union., 1897-09-07
USES OF ELECTRICITY.
GIVING AID AND COMFORT TO
THE HUMAN RACE.
Wonderful Things Accomplished
Which We're Not Thought
of Years Ago.

Which We're Not Thought
of Years Ago.
So frequently that one can almost say
every day, it is announced that some
thing that people used to do with their
hands, or by the aid Of steam or water
or wind, can now be done by electric
ity, that genius, which the intelligence
OF the nineteenth century, especially
in this, its last decade, has found and
bound to do its will. Even the wonder
of the X-rays bids fair to be eclipsed
by something else-one never knows
exactly what. 1t is almost an eerie
thing to think about
Some of these new applications Of
electricity viii perhaps never be any
thing more than playthings, but, on
the other hand, science, in all it's
branches, has been benefited. Below
viii be found some interesting exam
pies:
ELECTRIC LIGHT IN RHEUMA-
TISM.
Tt is possible that the story recently
circulated of the cure Of rheumatism
in Russia by means of the arc light
should be regarded more as a welcome
addition to existing data on the ply
sioIogical qualities of the electric light
THAI as an authoritative record of
standard practice. The therapeutic eff
fects of both natural and artificial light
are but little understood, and there is
no doubt that their study viii present.
ly open out a new world Of curative
possibilities.
It seems that DR. KozlovsId, a st. Pc
tersburg physician, was led to the
treatment of rheumatism and neural
gia by exposure to the electric arc by
some observation smade by DR.. Ewald.
the medical officer to SONS large iron
works.
d.. Ewald stated he had noticed that
since the Introduction of the system of
electric welding there had been a not
able diminution in the number of cases
of rheumatism, neuralgia, migraine and
other nervous diseases among the
workmen, which he attributed to the
beneficial effect of the electric light.
In order to put the matter to a test,
DR.. Kozlovski fitted up his consulting
rooms with an electric plant, including
a powerful arc lamp with a reflector.
He puts the patient at distance of
five feet from the light, protected by
blue spectacles and also by a screen
of cardboard, in which an aperture is
cut to allow the light to fall on the
affected region of the body. To this it
is exposed for from three quarters of
a.sminute to two minutes
At the same time the patient feels
a slight sensation of heat, though the
temperature is never raised more than
4 degrees Fahrenheit where the light
falls on the skin No further incon-
venience is noticed until six or eight
hours afterward, when itching and
tingling are felt, and the skin becomes
REDEEMED. Some forty-eight hours later
a peeling off of the skin occurs, which
lasts for two or three days. In three
months DR.. Kozlovsld treated thirty
eight patients, varying in age from il
to 20 years, by this system.
There were eight cases of sciatica, all
of which recovered; four of neuritis
locality not stated, two of which re-
covered; eighteen Of chronic rheuma-
tism, fourteen of which recovered, and
three of Iumbago, all Of which recov-
cred. In most cases three or four
sittings produced an amelioration of
the pain.
THE TYPEWRITER IN TELEGRA-
PLY.
About fifteen years ago, before most
telegraph operators had hardly heard
of a typewriter, there was, on a South
ern newspaper circuit, a telegraphist
who vas very slow. He was slow,
even for those days, when operators
had not begun to dream of the speeds
that are common to-day; his handicap
was cramped and laborious penman-
ship.
Then, as now. there was a penalty
for breaking the wire; that is, getting
behind and having to interrupt the
sender to have a portion of the mes
sage repeated. The operator had the
worst possible record on the wire for
breaks, and he was responsible for
much soreness of spirit and rugged
ness OF language on the part Of the
sending operators. Suddenly all this
stopped.
He made no more breaks, and from
having the worst, he soon came to have
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