An essay on the medical application of electricity.

  • John Birch
Date:
1803
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Credit: An essay on the medical application of electricity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in his hand, when the footsteps of a friend stopped h.s purpose. He had resolved however to effect “dt WaS in the most distressful agitations about it, the morning he first applied to me In the evening of that day, he declared he was so sensible of the divine interposition in preventing his wicked design ; that he found himself able to return thanks; and this relief of his mind was fol- lowed by arefreshing sleep, from which he awoke a new being: that he felt sensible of the powers of electricity every day after it’s application, be- ing capable of mental exertions immediately. He could not be satisfied, he said, without mak- ing this declaration to me, as no one but him- self could have an adequate idea of the sudden change the first electric shocks wrought in his mind. After this conversation I dismissed him, and he fulfilled his engagement that summer with his usual applause. Nine years after, I visited this man at New- bery in Berkshire. He had been perfectly well, and received my visit with the most grateful thanks. A gentleman, who had been long a patient of Ur. Monro’s, with a moping melancholy, and who had reached the age of 26 without any re- ] lief. t
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