Hitt's electro dynamics, or, Electricity the universal cause of motion in matter : illustrative of the diagnosis and treatment of all diseases, the motions of the planetary system, the laws of gravity, polarization of the needle, climate and physiology / by J.D. Hitt.

  • Hitt, J. D.
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1848
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    that constitutes animal circulation or being. Hence the diseases that are immediately connected with the animal circulation or department of involuntary motions, excite no pain, give no notice of their existence till their fatal termination, because sensation and perception belong to another, a spiritual department, the mind, emanating from, or belonging to the nervous system, the depart- ment of voluntary motions ; and hence again neuralgic diseases may for years excite the most excruciating agony and suffering, and the animal department exhibit all the appearance and effect of an equilibrium of elec- trical forces, constituting health. THERAPEUTICS. All combinations of matter, being the result of the previous motion of atoms to a centre of combination, are the result of electrical energy, and these combinations existing in different degrees of tenacity contain electrical energy in different degrees of intensity, giving rise to the chemical classification of compounds of electro ne- gative and positive : consequently combination contain- ing- electrical energy or activity in a state different from that which exists in a combination to which it may be applied, imparts, to some extent, its energy of action, whether negative or positive. [See proposition 7th.] Therefore any combination of matter brought in con- tact with the animal system, whether through the lungs, alimentary canal, or artificially containing electrical energy, differing from the parts to which it is brouo-ht