An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . he following: The back of the lodestone,as it repulseth iron ; so also it drives back the Gout, curesBurstness and every catarrh or rheum which is of the natureof iron. Again, according to the same writer, the power ofthe lodestone is lost if it be rubbed with garlic, a statementwhich one would have thought could have been verified orrefuted without the expenditure of an abnormal amount ofexperimental * On Christmas Eve, 1920, I saw in a druggists shop window some bottlesof tonic, which was described as being prepared from
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . he following: The back of the lodestone,as it repulseth iron ; so also it drives back the Gout, curesBurstness and every catarrh or rheum which is of the natureof iron. Again, according to the same writer, the power ofthe lodestone is lost if it be rubbed with garlic, a statementwhich one would have thought could have been verified orrefuted without the expenditure of an abnormal amount ofexperimental * On Christmas Eve, 1920, I saw in a druggists shop window some bottlesof tonic, which was described as being prepared from Magnetized was in London, not a mile from Victoria Station. + Addison {Spectutor No. 56, May 4th, 1711) mentions a statement byAlbertus Magnus, that fire would cause a lodestone to lose its properties, andthat he took particular notice of one, as it lay among the burning coals,observing a blue flame to rise from it. This he conceived to be, possibly,the essential powers of the lodestone leaving it. See Note B., p. 173. HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY. Otto von Guericke. GVILIELMI GIL BERTI SIS, MEDICI LONDI- NENSIS, DE MAGNET E, MAGNET I- CORPORIBVS,ET DEMAG- no magnete tellure ; Phyfiologia noua, plurimis & arguments, &expe~ rimentis demonftrata.
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