An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . eeks listened with unfeigned awe. The godsspoke from the heavens in the rattle of the passing storm, or wrote theirrage upon the earth in the ruin of the lightning-stroke. And now, likeIndra, Tinia, or Jupiter, the genius of modern civilization bears in itsright arm the thunder-bolt as its crowning attribute. It has snatchedthe lightning from the skies and made it the most docile of electric flash is busy day and night in doing the work marked outfor it by our modern magicians.
An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . eeks listened with unfeigned awe. The godsspoke from the heavens in the rattle of the passing storm, or wrote theirrage upon the earth in the ruin of the lightning-stroke. And now, likeIndra, Tinia, or Jupiter, the genius of modern civilization bears in itsright arm the thunder-bolt as its crowning attribute. It has snatchedthe lightning from the skies and made it the most docile of electric flash is busy day and night in doing the work marked outfor it by our modern magicians. It flies swifter than Ariel to carry itsmasters message, and puts a girdle round the earth. It dives in mid-ocean, rides over desert and forest. It prints our books, prepares our (A~185) A-186 BLETER. paper; it dissolves our gems and consumes platinum. An electric lightturns night into day; electric processes aid almost every kind of me-chanical labor; and the thunder-bolt of Jupiter is everywhere toiling inthe cause of human progress. Of all the achievements of modern civilization this is the most. Fig. 1.—Benjamin Franklin. remarkable. Steam is gross and material; there is little that is poeticor great in the rattle of the train or the roar of a monstrous can easily account for the mightiest of machines impelled by boilingwater. Gunpowder and nitro-glycerin, oxygen and hydrogen seem thenatural servants of inventive man. But when we attempt to catch theidea of the electric spark, it still appears almost as superhuman and ter- GALVANISM. A-187 rible as when it flashed, fear into the hearts of Greeks and Romans. Itobeys with scrupulous accuracy; it performs the smallest, as well as themost important, tasks with equal care; it is as docile as was the genieto Solomons seal; and yet it still remains shadowy, mysterious, andimpalpable. It still lives in the skies, and seems to connect the materialand the spiritual. Whence come these tongues of fire; these sharpshocks; t
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