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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 2, 14 June 1884, Page 3

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e>(raoit ooa own coesesf-ondknt.) Bu__s, June 11. Most of your readers are no doubt aware that of all the sciences, electricity and magnetism are those which have received the greatest attention from philosophers during the List 50 years, with results that almost stagger us when ■we contemplate them. From the simple electric spark produced by rubbin;*; a cat's biek on a frosty night, has evolved the dazzling brightness of the electric liglp* which, .-in a few years, will bt iue-1 in almost every household. Tliea again electricity in its various forms has been brought into use as a merciful healer of many of the "ills -hut flesh is heir to" ani ■which the ordinary remedies have failed to remove. ' Outward application of electricity are of daily occurrence, and even that wonder-worker Steven*;oii fouud that magnati-edoil was a gre_fc assistance to him in his miracle- work ing business. Xa eyery country aad towa in which edu cati6n"has' i n;jj(le any progress i' ere will bo found sou;.- uue that is occupying his time in experiments in electricity. The The County of Ranjjitikei has a gentleman within its boundaries, whose name I am net, permitted at present to divulge. who has for many years devoted the whole of his spare moments lo the siudy of electricity as a solvent cf all the ills of of our poor frail natures. Having studied physic in England and France, he proceeded to Berlin in 68, and there attended a course of .lectures on magnetism by one of the professSrs of that enlightened city, and it was tbrough these lectures that he became imbued with the idea that in electricity was to be found the long sought for "elixir of life." Arriving in New Zealand in 72, he at once proceeded to arrange a studio, and fix up batteries, which nrere modifications and adaptations of most of the batteries ia general use, and by which he was enabled to produce powerful currents which were in constant use in experiments in his medical practice. Though these proved highly satisfactory, yet he was convinced that however usef al outward applications of electricity were, they failed to realise his expectations, When it was proved last year that' it was possible to store electricity he. was. impressed with the idea that if a small quantity could be saved in something in the shape of a coated pill, bis difficulties' would vanish. Experi■"Cients have -now* been carried on. with ""Varied success ofor'-orer a year; The great difficulty was to discover 'a-_o*tn-pound"lHaE"would absorb the electric fluid and yet not be injurious to the patient. Thia .he olaim* to have orercojuie, arid that his electric dinamopills.will be the wonder of the' age' Tn every case iii' which he has used them iustant reliof has been given, but the cp-fta,**^! labor, of preparation, with the machinery he ha», is such that only l about' a'-dozen pills can be made in a and 'it takes nearly six hours to glypxge^ a, single pill. He affirms that all oqhiftlcrnal .maladies -are the result of losS'Xo^^l'ectrio- power, and that with HEe'^ntwaril applications/ dl electricl^nrttle"jromains permanently it the systetok Whereas by the use of tht dinamo/pjil t^ejw-holejs absorbed in the syste^ai i aa.d,a-t-ouffi**;gives .relief and ulti j_^tel^;iiFis»aSneat:cure^ .*•■-.'••' .—<•.-