The Complete Herbalist
by Dr. O. Phelps Brown (1878)
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC MACHINE
Formerly electric machines were unreliable, always
troublesome, and constantly getting out of order, a source of annoyance
and perplexity. All these inconveniences are now obviated in this
machine (see cut), which is manufactured for us by the Galvano-Faradac
Manufacturing Company. It combines cheapness, simplicity and power.
The method of using it may be made known in a few sentences which are sent
with the machine. The use of electricity for medical purposes, comfined
some few years since to a few specialists, has now become of common use
in families all over the country, and it is a very valuable remedy in a
wide range of diseases, and especially is it reliable when used in connection
with my Herbal Ointment. Thus used it is important in nervous affections,
paralysis, general debility, loss of voice, when it comes from fatigue,
hysteria or fright; appoplexy, prolapsus and, muscular atrophy, facial
palsy, varicose veins, aneurism, vomiting, hydrocele, paralysis of the
muscles of the eye, cerebral softening, hemiplegia, hydatids, enlarged
joints, lead palsy, enlargement of spleen, neuralgia, numbness, rheumatism,
gout, swellings, weak or diseased spine, tumors, etc., etc. After
the application of the electric current my Herbal Ointment should be freely
applied and well-rubbed in over the afflicted parts. The beneficial
result of the union of these two powerful external remedies in many cases
cannot be overestimated -- the one arousing action and electrifying, the
other healing, soothing, and giving warmth and renewed life, health and
strength.
Price of Ointment 25 and 50 cents per pot; 2 and
4 cts. Extra for postage.
If constipation exists in any of the above diseases
a few doses of my Renovating Pills ahould be taken.
For a farther description of my Herbal Ointment send
for my "Treatise on Herbal Remedies," which is supplied free to all applicants.
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