Sunday, July 21, 2019
Who discovered electrotherapy?
Who first discovered electrotherapy, now being discredited (yet again) by Elon?
I've been wrong. It wasn't Americans or Brits or Krauts in the 1880s.
It was NIGERIANS!
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Transcribed:
On the river Old Calabar, the electrical properties of the gymnotus are used by the natives to cure their sick children; a small specimen of the fish is put into a dish containing water, and the child is made to play with it, or the child is put into a tub of water and the fish put in beside it.From History of Electrical Telegraphy, p203 of the PDF. I'd love to find out how those folks determined the curative effects. They wouldn't have gone through the process of instrumental measurement and theoretical speculation. Why did they try the experiment in the first place? Did adults notice that they felt better after a mild shock? The author is JJ Fahie, a British engineer who spent much of his career setting up a telegraph system in Persia in the 1860s. He had more experience and respect for non-Euros than the typical British scholar or engineer. I'm trying to trace down the vague source he gave for this info, but so far no luck.
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