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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
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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person considerably so;while the one over the left shoul-der fairly illustrates one nearlydestitute of animal magnetism, orindividual electricity. Not that anyone is entirely destitute, but manydo not possess a sufficient supplyto exert any perceptible influenceover any one. To be a successfulelectropath, one must possess thehighest amount of positive indi-vidual electricity, as representedby the hand above the head in thepicture. Now, while I am well aware ofthe fallibility of this mode oftreating disease, when adopted asa specialty by persons possessingthe greatest amount of magnetism,and while I know that cures ap-parently effected by this power oragency alone, are seldom permanent ones, but reliefs of temporaryduration, the truth cannot be gainsayed that the possession of thismagnetic power is of vital importance to one who desires to be asuccessful electrical operator. I have found, in giving instructions intherapeutic electricity to physicians, that they differed greatly in the
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MAGNETIC HANDS. THERAPEUTIC ELECTRICITY. 299 power of employing it efficiently, even when they seemed to beequally proficient in the theory and practice. In other words, whilethey perfectly understood the modus operandi of making the manip-ulations, and the currents to be employed, the results of theirexperiments were widely different. This want of uniformity in theirsuccess I have attributed to the difference in the magnetic powers ofdifferent individuals, and how wisely, I leave it for the reader to de-cide, after having perused what I have herein written, and whatwill be further found in Part Third of this book. In all disorders involving the nervous system, electricity, appliedproperly by a good operator, is an excellent substitute for popularanodynes. It has been the general custom of the medical professionto resort to stupefying narcotics to allay nervous irritability, whichunquestionably produce temporary relief, but, as certainly, ultimateinjury. I may truly say, that I have a

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