Google books photocopied a book about electrotherapy which you might
already have - a search should bring it up.
:The Desideratum: or, electricity made Plain and Useful By A Lover of
Mankind and of Common Sense
The Reverend John Wesley 1759
... 120 remarkable Cures by Electricity pp 43-70
p 52: William Matthews, Schoolmaster, aged thirty two, living at the
Foundery near Moorfields, had Epileptic Fits (supposed to be hereditary)
from his Birth, till he was six Years old. Thence he was free till
Thirteen. They then returned on occasion of a Fright, and continued so
to do twice or thrice in a Year, till he was seventeen. From that Time
they came almost every Month, till the Year 1753: Since then they
usually returned about once in ten or eleven Weeks. In the Middle of
March last he began to be electrified, both thro' the Head, and from
Head to Foot. April 4. He had a slight Fit, but from that Time to this,
Nov 1, has had none at all. Can all England afford such a Cure as this,
wrought by a Course of Medicines?
p. 66 "Mary Butler, aged 86, living in Eagle street, Red Lion Square,
having been afflicted with the Sciatica for more than twenty Years, was
last Month electrified ten or twelve Times, and has been easy ever since.
It seems the Electric Fire in Cases of this and of many other Kinds,
dilates the minute Vessels, and capillary Passages, as well as separates
the clogging Particles of the stagnating Fluids. By accelerating
likewise the Motion of the Blood, it removes many Obstructions."
After Wesley's writings, there is an Appendix "The Electricity of Modern
Times", dated July 1871.
*2.**The Disorders in which it has been of unques**tionable use, are,*
****
Agues,Fistula Lacrymalis,
St. Anthony's Fire,Fits, Ganglions, Gout, Gravel
Blindness, even from
Gutta Serena,Head-Ache,
Blood extravasated,Hysterics,
Bronchocele,Inflammations,
Chlorosis,King's Evil,
Coldness in the Feet,Knots in the Flesh,
*Consumption,**Lameness, Leprosy,*
*Contractions of the Limbs,Mortification,*
Cramp,Pain in the Back, in the
Deafness, Dropsy,Stomach,
EpilepsyPalpitation of the Heart,
Feet violently disorder'd, Palsy, Pleurisy,
Felons,Rheumatism,
There is a description of Wesley's apparatus in
http://electrocleansing.com/history_wesley.php
with reference to other of his writings.
Wesley's Electrical Machine Described
/It consists of a hollow glass cylinder (7 1/2 in. long by 4 1/2 in.
diameter) supported on two wooden uprights. Through it runs a metal
bar to which a handle is attached, by means of which the cylinder
can be freely rotated. A leather pad (to which is firmly attached a
piece of black silk) is pressed against the cylinder. It is
controlled, very simply, by a thumbscrew./
/ On an attached platform (8 in. long by 5 in. wide) and mounted on
a glass insulating column, is a metal arm with a thin rod (9 1/2 in.
long) attached to it, at the end of which is a small metal ball 1
in. diameter. The whole machine is mounted on four glass insulating
legs (4 1/2 in. in height)./
/Presumably the patient caught hold of the ball and as the metal arm
made contact with the rotating cylinder, got a shock - the intensity
depending upon the vigor with which the handle was turned./
/ Also on view is a Leyden jar of the period, it being 6.5 in. in
height and 4 in. in diameter. Treatment by this method of storing an
accumulated charge was also used, but it is recorded that Wesley
himself preferred the machine. Possibly the more vigorous and
obvious method appealed to a man of his temperament. Wesley is known
to have had at least four machines in his possession./ (Woodward, M.
W., "Wesley's Electrical Machine," /Nursing Mirror/, 1962.)
http://electrocleansing.com/historicaluse.php This site also has
information about setting up a device.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40552805/John-Wesley-and-the-Eighteenth-Century-Therapeutic-Uses-of-Electricity
You can download this with a Facebook or Scribd account.
The journal of John Wesley
By John Wesley, Nehemiah Curnock on Google Books
http://www.microcurrentsystems.com/gout - article which also refers to
early research and mentions Arsene D'Arsonval,
I read about that in 1890 or so in medical books
blood electrification was mentioned. Unfortunately
I do not know in which book. Is anybody there who read
something like that and can tell me where I can find this?
In
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