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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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,how soon the avenues of theskin would close up, were thedischarge of effete matter pro-duced by merely a contractingprocess of the pores. Naturehas manifestly employed amotive power, and this agentis the same which the mind of man uses in controlling his muscularorganization, and the same, too, that the Almighty employs in movingand sustaining the planetary systems of innumerable worlds. Tt is found in cases of fever that the blood is overcharged withacid, and the fever is undoubtedly, in a measure, due to the presenceof this. This excess may be easily explained. The excretions fromthe skin are acidulous, showing that electrical radiation, when active,relieves the blood and system generally, of all excessive acidulousaccumulations, as well as waste matters. Buf when the pores of theskin are closed up by sudden exposure to cold, or taking cold, or theradiation is more sluggish by protracted wet weather, or a residencein a damp location, the acidulous and effete properties of the blood
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ELECTRICAL RADIATION. THE ATMOSPHERE WE LIVE IN. 101 and tissues do not pass off sufficiently, and the system becomesAoaded with them, inducing fever or other inflammatory difficulties.Here we have physiological evidence of a too positive condition ofthe atmosphere in wet weather. The system, no longer electricallypositive in its relation to the surrounding air, active, healthful radia-tion of electricity, with its loads of impurities, is partially or whollysuspended. It is under the influence of these conditions, that rheu-matic and neuralgic invalids complain of increased pain, because thedamming up of the impurities of the system promotes the accretionsof acrimonious particles of matter which attach themselves to theliving tissue and inflame it. The application of galvanism, or elec-tricity, while this state of things existe, not only tends to detach theirritating particles from the parts to which they have adhered, butalso has a tendency to throw the body into a positive condition

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