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Title: An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Bigelow, Horatio R. (Horatio Ripley) Massey, George Betton, 1856-1927 Prince, Morton, 1854-1929 Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906 Hayes, Plymmon Sandford, 1850-
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Hysteria Uterus Electric Stimulation Therapy Uterus Hysteria
Publisher: Philadelphia : F. A. Davis London : F.J. Rebman
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ribing to amber a soul. He supposed that somehidden principle of life lay in the yellow jewel from the northern seas. The discovery was never forgotten, and the peculiar property ofamber was noticed and commented upon by various ancient philosophers.Theophrastus, three centuries later than Thales, observed the attractivepower of electron, and perhaps lectured his two thousand disciples uponthe animated gem. Pliny, the elder, also described the phenomenon,and believed, apparently, that the amber was rubbed into life by theaction of his fingers. But the germ of the great science lay hidden inmystery. No ancient philosopher could for a moment have supposedthat there was any connection between the animated electron and thewild electricity of the thunder-storm ; that the same power was active Becquerel, Traite de TElectricite ; Pliny, N. H., i, pp. 37, 329. Ges Carthager, Botticlier, p. 75, thinks the Phoenicians reached Prussia. See Pliny,H. N., iv, p. 27; xxxvii, pp. 11,12. A-188 BLEYER.
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GALVANISM. A-189 in both, and that the secret of the amber was that of the thunder-boltof Jove; that the precious electron was to create and to give a name tothe most wonderful of modern discoveries. Yet electricity, in all its varied phenomena, never suffered thepuzzled ancients to rest.^ It flashed along the spears of their long arrayof soldiers and tipped every helmet with a plume of flame. It filledeven the immovable Caesar with a strange alarm. It leaped down fromthe clouds and splintered the temples and statues of Rome, and did notspare the effigy of the Thunderer himself. It was seen playing aroundthe ramparts of fortified towns, crowning their sentinels with a strangeeffulgence. Often the Roman or Greek sailors, far from land on thestormy Mediterranean, saw pale, si>ectral lights dancing along the ropesof their vessels or clinging in fitful outlines to the masts, and called themCaesar and Pollux. But the science of electricity was still unborn. Mean-time in ancient Etruria,

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