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Title: The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bennett, Homer Clark, 1865-1928
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Electricity in medicine Ohm's law X-rays Electricity Electricity X-Rays Electromagnetic Phenomena Electric Stimulation Therapy
Publisher: Lima (Ohio) : Literary Dept. of the National College of Electro-Therapeutics
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ey from all the flowers,appropriating and using only the best from each; in other words, the com-ing doctor will be treating his patients with whatever he thinks will re-lieve or cure most safely, quickly and pleasantly, whether it be drugs oflarge or small doses, or no dose at all, baths, massage, electrification, light,heat, vibration, diet, hygieue, exercise, rest, suggestion, sunshine ormoonshine. The doctor who is not posted in electro-therapeutics will sel-dom see any indications for its use, while the doctor who is well acquain-ted with its properties and power will be always finding cases in which itcan be applied with great advantage, as there is scarcely any limitation toits usefulness in some way or other. In this rapid age where most of usare nervous dyspeptics, electro-therapeutics has a great field for useful-ness. The combination of nervous unbalance, termed Americanitis, es-pecially calls for the soothing application of electrification to restore thenormal equilibrium.
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What is Electricity? This question is often asked by the unthinking and thinking alike,and has never yet been answered definitely. Many theories have beenoffered, all with some points in favor, but they are none of any practicalvalue to us. Occasionally we are amused by some one making a discovery,(save the mark,) claiming to have found out what electricity is, and heeither guards his secret (?) closely, or gives a very old and confusing joblot of meaningless words, as a definition. So do not be afraid to show your ignorance as to what electricity is,for you are in very good company, as the wisest do not know, and in thatrespect we are all wise. While we do not know what it is, we do know what it is not. It isnot a tangible entity. It is not an energy, as many claim. Electricity isa condition. Electrification is an energy, or manifestation of the electriccondition, and we know some of the laws governing electrification, andcan, by following these laws, bring about certain manifestatio

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