Electricity is the fountain, the great vivifying principle of nature : a source of life and health ; medicine the requisite accessory to that science an address / by Dudley Adams.

  • Adams, Dudley, active 1820.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Electricity is the fountain, the great vivifying principle of nature : a source of life and health ; medicine the requisite accessory to that science an address / by Dudley Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    municated to the whole body at once, either seated, or -walking, in the interior of a Bath, prepared for the occasion, and ready at all times, during the hours appointed for attendance. It may be proper to mention, that the fluid in which the patient is to be immerged, being, this fifth element, or electricity, no article of the customary apparel need, be removed. Thus will the repressed organs be revived, and manna, as it were, or food of the mildest yet most energetic nature, be conveyed to the centre of action; the primwn mobile, or main spring of life; adding at once to health and years. A clear idea of the effects of electricity on the human frame, when judiciously applied, can- not perhaps be better expressed, than by a pa- tient in his own words. He was totally deprived of the use of his limbs; attacked by spasms, ac- companied with all the symptoms of St. Vitus's Dance; the involuntary motions attended with extreme pain, &c. He observed, when saturated or charged throughout with electricity, that he felt a kind of power take possession of his frame, or pervade his whole system, which was unknown to him before. He now walks as well as any other person, without the aid of crutch or stick.
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