ELECTRIC PICK-ME-UPS.
London, July 6. The consulting rooms of fashionable nerve doctors are just now crowded by women who are kept going through the season by electrical treatments. A lady sullcring from season fag or nerve weariness lies on a comfortable couch, has fifteen minutes' "high frequency" treatment, and rises fresh and stimulated for a big dinnor party or Court ball. After a long day at Ascot the aid of the battery is called in to counteract fatigue, so that a lady can entertain guests at a ball or opera without signs of brain fag or boredom. ' The electric pick-me-up acts only temporarily. Like the chloroform or morphia habit, TMs followed by an pxlviuating reaction. Women in the habit of using electricity as a temporary stimulant say they "feel as "limp as a rag" ucxt morning.' 7
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 August 1907, Page 3
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137ELECTRIC PICK-ME-UPS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 August 1907, Page 3
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