1 in a groat measure to the wearing of a ring of this description.
2 I must observe that those who make use of such ghlvano-
3 olectric rings, ought not to he anxious when experiencing any
4 slight indisposition, and should avoid resorting at once to strong
5 remedies, lest the ill effects of those remedies should be attributed
6 to the ring, and thus destroy the confidence of the wearer, and
7 lead to n false conclusion. While advising persons to wear
8 such rings, it is not, however, to be considered that they arc
9 talismans or amulets; their virtues are of another character,
10 width I will endeavour to explain. We know well what
11 mighty influence the electric and magnetic fluid exercises on
12 the material world, and that it produces many of those wonderful
13 phenomena, which the wisdom of antiquity was unable to
14 explain ; but our modern naturalists have succeeded, if not in
15 absolutely discovering the hitherto hidden secrets of nature, at
16 least in lifting a portion of the veil which conceals them.
17 There >f> no doubt that an electro-magnetic fluid is diffused
18 tlirough our most subtile nerves, its source or lottery is the
19 brain, and it is probable that the wise Creator, for that reason,
20 bus there united all the organs of sensation Through the
21 continual injld and slight stimulation which these rings produce
22 upon the nervous system, in consequence of their affinity with
23 the electric fluid existing in the body, we may believe them to
24 operate in a manner analogous to lightning conductors, and thus
25 to maintain the functions f the nerves in their normal state.
26 1 refer the reader, as regards the construction of these rings, to
27 the illustrations of those which I distributed at Lahore and
28 Vienna, us given in the second volume of this work.
29 In the. last year of my sojourn at Lahore, 18If), I observed, in
30 the English medical journals, a description of a galvano-electric
31 apparatus, consisting of one zinc and one silver plate, united by
32 a silver wire, and the statement of its effects, espoi ally upon
33 ulcers nod similar cases. This induced me to make some experi¬
34 ments in cases of this description, in which 1 succeeded; especially
35 nt the prisoners’ hospital, where two brothers had on their feet
36 two cancerous ulcers, which were completely eradicated, the one