New or electric symptoms of chronic diseases, or chronic tubercula of the organs and limbs, by which they may be easily and invariably distinguished by any person of common education and capacity : and their natural or electric remedies, which, with very few exceptions in the last stage, cure all these diseases by their electric influences, including all the forms of scrofula with cases affecting the different organs and limbs / by H.H. Sherwood.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1836
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Credit: New or electric symptoms of chronic diseases, or chronic tubercula of the organs and limbs, by which they may be easily and invariably distinguished by any person of common education and capacity : and their natural or electric remedies, which, with very few exceptions in the last stage, cure all these diseases by their electric influences, including all the forms of scrofula with cases affecting the different organs and limbs / by H.H. Sherwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by repulsion and attraction; and they all produce heat and light, and are consequently the same fluids, modified by other matter. Repulsions are constantly succeeded by attractions and these are the na'ural principles of motion. These motions are the push and pull or the repelling and attracting motions of the pulse, and those we use in walking and the same or jerking motion we feel in every shock from an electric machine. All the other mo- tions made by man and other animals, fiom the priest in the pulpit and ihe lawyer at the bar, to the dancing master and fiddler, and from these to the wood sawyer and maid at the churn: and from them to those of the animals feeding upon the plains are these mo- tions belonging to electric matter. The electric fluid in positive bodies, or those that have greater quantities of positive than negative, is repelled in large spheres in large lines from positive to negative bodies, or to those of smaller quantities of positive proportioned to its quantity in giv- en spaces, and is attracted in small lines in a negative state, from negative to positive bodies, and when those in^ a positive pass to a negative body, they move along their best conductors or mediums, and when they come in contact with nonconductors, the violence of their conclusions or repulsions and attractions is proportioned to the size oftne lines, or its quantities in given spaces. The nerves of the system, or electric conductors or mediums, are therefore necessarily large where they are united to the brain in a positive state, and branch, and become very small before they are united with glands in other parts of the system in a neg- ative state. In tubercula, the electric fluids are in some tubercles positive, and in others negative, and are repelled from those in i positive, to those in a negative state, and attracted from these to the posi- tive, through their mediums and produce in the tubercles the dull pains in its chronic form and spasmodic darting or lancina- ting pains when acute, and are always prevented from passing from a limb to an organ, or from one organ through an intermedi- ate organ to another, or from an organ to a limb by means of the ganglia of its medium, and this arrangement of the ganglia of the nerves makes the sympathy necessarily direct between the sur- face, head and central organs, and indirect between the head, cential organs and limbs, and is a necessary arrangement to en- able the brain to maintain its positive state, and the glands of the different parts of the system to transmit their separate electric fluids and sensations from one to another, and from these to the sensorum. These motions or repulsions of electric matter produce expan-