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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a free passage ofnervo-electricity through the pneumo-gastric nerve leading to thestomach is not unfrequently the principal cause. Cut the pneumo-gastric nerve in the neck of any animal, and the process of digestionceases at once—apply the galvanic battery to the end leading to thestomach, and it is immediately resumed. The further this subject isinvestigated, the clearer the reader will see the value of electricity inthe treatment of disease. Water, it has been beautifully re-marked, is valuable as a medical agent, but its efficiency consists,not in the element itself, but in its subservience as a handmaid ofelectricity. Electricity is the queen of medicine: water merely apool in which she bathes her feet. The author of this quotation is,however, a little sanguine, and makes electricity the queen insteadof duchess. Golding Bird, who has devoted much time to the investigation andapplication of electricity, says : Conscientiously convinced that the 288 CX)MMON SENSE REMEDIES. Fig. 7a
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agent in question is a no less energetic than valuable remedy in thetreatment of disease, I feel most anxious to press its employment-uponthe practical physician, and to urge him to have recourse to it as arational but fallible remedy, and not to regard it as one eitherexpected or capable of effecting impossibilities.. The same writeradds, that electricity has been by no means fairly treated as atherapeutic agent, for it has either been exclusively referred towhen all other remedies have failed,—in fact, often exclusively, ornearly so, in hopeless cases,—or its administration has been care-lessly directed, and the mandate, Let the patient be electrified,merely given without reference to the manner, form, or mode of the remedy being foronce taken into consider-ation. In this countrythere are hundreds ofgood mechanics whomake various electro-magnetic machines, andsell them for family use,with a circular or pam-phlet professing to giveunerring directions for their use in different di

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