- While Caspari is the au thority for the symptoms caused by electricity, the powerful effect exercised on some by the approach of a thunderstorm and the influence of an electric current is well known.
- In those who have be en electrified, there is shaking of the whole body, commencing in the maxillary bones, tingling in the parts electrified, and violent burning.
- Effects of atmospheric electricity and static electricity.
- Dreads approach of thunderstorms.
- General relaxation, sometimes with moral depression and headache.
- Anxiety, nervous tremors, restlessness, palpitations.
- Relaxation of the nerves and muscles.
- Las situde and stiffness of the limbs.
- Heaviness of limbs, swelling of parts.
- Heat in the whole body.
- Loss of the weight of the body, weakness of the parts shaken.
- Dragging sensations in all the limbs, as far as the ends of the fingers and toes, nocturnal shootings in parts that are paralyzed.
- St.
- Vitus' dance.
- Epileptic fits hastened and aggravated.
- COMMENTS - Dr.
- Seward related a number of cases in which the injudicious use of electric baths brought on tuberculosis.
- In another case, the chest and arms became stif f and paralyzed.
- A young married woman, who had general and local (uterine) electric treatment, complained after it of feeling very heavy, as if she weighed a ton.
- One patient after a bath, said his chest and shoulders “felt like marble.” He became tubercu lar and died.
- The paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. caused by electricity was in several cases quickly relieved by Morph -acet., both in the solution and in the potencies
