The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-24
TOPICS
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOV-
cry AND INVENTION.
Making Old Men Young-nIethod Of APP
plying Electricity Is Said to Have Re-
markab,e Eesults-WUd Beasts famed
by Tobacco.
To LenGthen Life.

DR.. Julius Althaus claims to have
discovered the philosophers stone Of
the physiological world; in other
words, he says hat by suitable e%lectri-
cal treatment old mon can be made
m~lddle-aged, and middIe-aged men can
recover much of the fexibility,
strength, and appearance of youth.
HIS panacea is the ga!vanic current,
which he applies to tue brain in care
fully regulated doses. He maintains
mat a week CT two after the COM
mencement of such a treatment the
energy Of the system is considerably
enhanced.
Inc Old man takes fresh interest in
the affairs of daily life and resumes
work with some amount of vigor. He
can TAX more exercise, ne walks and
stands more erectly, and he has a
quicker digestion and a healthier sleep.
tie Is no longer a nuisance to his
friends, as his peevishness and irrit-
ability have given place to al even
and contented temper. Not less graft
1ylrS to those who arc on the down
ward grade OF life is DR.. Althaus'
statement in regard to TIE treatment
OF the hair. He, insists thnt the
growth OF the hair is stimulated and
even when gray Or white it resumes, to
a greater or less extent, it's former
brown or black color. In 100 cases
treated the results of 40 per cent were
noted as very good" in another 80
per cent as fair and in the last 80
per cent as insignificant. DR.. Althaus
ADDS that in no case was the treatment
entirely useless, and the function
which was improved in every case was
that Of walking.
Dr. Althaus protests against the
treatment being abandoned without 4
long and patient trial, for the longer
it IS maintained the better are the
general results. He has come to the
conclusion that it old people receive,
about the siXtieth or sixty-fifth year,
or indeed at n time when age has
begun decidedly to tell upon them,
proper and infinitely carried out appli-
cations of electricity to the brain,
either daily, or every other day, for
SoA 'Auo, lhoy uldy ECep llc dCul-
ties fairly we'll until the age of 80 or
~, unless the case should be compli-
Gated with serious organic disease Of
the nervous system, or other important
organs, such as paralysis, agitans, in
sular scelerosis, cancer, contracted
granular kidney, fatty degeneration Of
the heart, etc.
The letting loose upon the public OF
sensational stories as to the marvellous
virtues Of high tension currents, for in
stance, in the securing from the body,
and the casting out to the distance Of
four or five feet Of the microbes of the
system, which has of late not been in
frequent, has created some %incredulity
In the average mind as to the thera-
peutic value Of electrical treatment,
and possibly Or. Althaus' theories may
come in for their share OF this d~istrust.
At the same time, many of the phy..-
illogical effects of the various kinds of
electric current are not yet known,
and some discoveries in e%lectro-the-
rapeutic application are now being
made by a leading scientific worker in
this country which are not in any de-
gree less remarkable than the develop
ment attributed to DR.. Althaus.