FIRST PRINCIPLES. Dr. Jerome Kidder's Electro-Magnetic Machine 21 Polarization 26 The Electric Circuit 28 Polarization of the Circuit 29 The Central Point of the Circuit 33 The Current 35 Modifications of Electricity 36 The Vital Forces?Animal and Vegetable 37 Extent of Electric Agency 42 Theory of Man 44 The Lower Animals 54 The Vegetable Kingdom 56 Natural Polarization of Man's Physical Organism 56 Electrical Classification of Diseases 58 Philosophy of Disease and Cure 58 PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE.[viii] Polar Antagonism 61 Importance of Noting the Central Point 62 Distinctive Use of Each Pole 63 Use of the Long Cord 69 The Inward and the Outward Current 74 Mechanical Effect of Each Pole 75 Relaxed and Atrophied Conditions 77 General Direction of the Current 78 Treating With Electrolytic Currents 79 Positive and Negative Manifestations 81 Healing 84 Diagnosis 84 PRESCRIPTIONS. Preliminary Remarks 94 General Tonic Treatment 95 Common Colds 98 Cephalagia (Headache) 100 Deafness 102 Noises in the Head 103 Inflamed Eyes 103 Amaurosis 104 Strabismus (Discordance of the Eyes) 104 Catarrh (Acute) 105 Catarrh (Chronic) 105 Diphtheria 106 Aphonia (Loss of Voice) 106[ix] Croup 107 Asthma 108 Hepatization of Lungs 108 Pneumonia 108 Pulmonary Phthisis (Consumption) 109 Neuralgia and Rheumatism of the Heart 111 Enlargement and Ossification of the Heart 112 Palpitation of the Heart 112 Torpid Liver 112 Hepatitis (Inflammation of Liver) 113 Enlargement of Liver 113 Biliary Calculi (Gravel in Liver) 114 Intermittent Fever (Ague and Fever) 114 Nephritis (Inflammation of Kidneys) 115 Renal Calculi (Gravel in the Kidneys) 116 Diabetes (A Kidney Disease) 116 Dyspepsia 117 Acute Diarrh?a 119 Chronic Diarrh?a 119 Cholic (of whatever kind) 120 Cholera Morbus 120 Cholera (Malignant) 121 Dysentery 122 Constipation of Bowels 122 H?morrhoids (Piles) 123 Rheumatism (Acute Inflammatory) 124 Rheumatism (Chronic) 125[x] Dropsy 126 Neuralgia 126 Sciatica 127 Paralysis 128 Erysipelas 129 Eruptive Cutaneous Diseases 130 Common Cramp 131 Trismus (Lockjaw) 132 Tetanus 132 Cancers 133 Asphyxia (Suspended Animation) 134 Recent Wounds, Contusions and Burns 135 Old Ulcers 135 Hemorrhage 136 Chlorosis (Green Sickness) 136 Amenorrh?a (Suppressed Menstruation) 138 Dysmenorrh?a (Painful Menstruation) 138 Menorrhagia (Excessive Menstruation) 139 Prolapsus Uteri (Falling of the Womb) 140 Leucorrh?a (Whites) 140 Spermatorrh?a 141 Impotence 142 --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.