The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-10

the attendant Paralysis of the lower
extremities suddenly left him helpless
and the doctors couldn't help him, they
said, without opening his head and re-
moving the blood clot from the motor
! center. And yet this mechanical massage
| has restored him to his present condition.
| You see, the stimulation is tremendous
/ and ii must result in restoring animation.
OF course. the foot movement is the least
of the treatment given to him. He was
massaged along the whole length Of his
spine and the treatment was applied to
the head repeatedly.
But it is to the nervously prOstrated
that his system applies the most relief
Modern civilization has increased the
number of Inconsistencies in the world
thousand fold and the conditions grows
worse daily. Now every human being Is
being put into the world with a certain
balance or equal proportion of nervous
and Of muscular energy. If the activity
on the part of the nerves is allowed to
overbalahce the activity of the muscles
neurast henia is sure to develop to a great
er or lesser extent. And every modern
invention tends to decrease the amount
of labor necessary to our livelihood. For
genera tons a certain amount of muscular
labor has been required CT every human
being. But suddenly in the nineteenth
century the invention Of labor-saVing ma
ChinCrN, Of elevators, Of street cars, Of
the telephone and telegraph removed the
necessity Cor most of the muscular effort
to which We had been so to speak, keyed
up by our ancestors. On the other hand,
the nervous force required of us is far
in excess Of that formally required. Many
persons instinctiVely appreciate the in
equality of the balance, and yet it is al
most impossible to get them to make up
the difference in healthy exercise.
Now here we have a machine which
will supply the lacking muscular eXertion
without it's othrwise consequent fatigue.
Applied to the muscles of the leg or the
arm or the chest. we can cause it to pro-
duce the very muscular action necessary
10 make up the balance between nerve
and muscle force If you sit in the-chair
and have the extremities vibrated at the
full rate of the machine you have done
more for your nerves than the daily
walking to business panacee could do
for you in month"
All sorts and conditions Of men and
women had the machine applied to them
while the writer looked on, for there was
nothing in the treatment that required
privacy Some had rheumatism and some
govt, and some had nervous prostration
which they wanted cured, and some had
nervous prostration for fear of the ma
chine itself and of what it might do for
Them and all the while the voice Of the
operator crooned low, telling Of the Won
derful success of the shaking machine
abroad, how Prince Pedowich thought it
the greatest ever and how Prince Alex
ander of Odenburg recommended 1t, and
Professor Some one-else considered it the
monitor of the coming medicineless era,
until only the verest skeptic would have
denied the efficacy of the new fad one
remark of one woman was highly sgniti
cant OF its power
Really" she said, as she left the room,
at is the oldest sensation l ever had.
That tong metal arm seems to hypnotic
me, and | am getting so cannot do with
out it. Curious isn't it?"