| HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRICAL CURRENTS |
The pioneer work in the physics of high frequency currents was done by D'Arsonval and Tesla but we are
primarilly indebted to D'Arsonval and Oudin for much of our knowledge concerning the physical effects of these
currents. Nagelschmidt of Berlin was first to announce a tehcnic of theraputic application of these currets.
A great thinker long ago stated, what a glorieous achievement it would be to find a way of producing fever and
controlling it as a remedial agent in the treatment of chronic diseases. Through the efforts of the above men, we
are now able to raise the temperature of any part of the body and control it; and through our ability to do this we
are attaining some of the objects of which scientific men have dreamed.
Hyperemia is called into play by nature more often than any other reparative process. Hypermia is always
accomplished with an elevation of temperature. In general practice, the physician often produces hypermia of
the skin for it revulsive effect. One seldom or ever thinks of inducting hypermia of the internal organs for the
purpose of hastening repair.
There is no gland of the body that may not be reached and its function profoundly influenced by electric energy.
Electricity and other physical measures are potent agents for good in the treatment of disease and is safe and
sound.
From an electro-physiological standpoint, the body is the most delicate and wonderful apparatus in which we
know. Within the body are electric generators, rheostats, resonators, transformers, insulators, collecting and
dispersing electrodes and more. It produces amperes and watts. The skin presents a resistance of thousands
of ohms. The body is full of cells which develop alternating, sinuosidal, static, inductive and oscillory currents
.
Its diathermic appparatus converts mechanical energy into heat. The body as whole, exhibts a ploarity which is
usually positive but may be changed to negative by surrounding objects, etc. It receives electrical charges,
disperses them, and has electric circuits which open and close.
While body currents may flow through almost any tissue of the body, it is well known that the nerves are the all
important conductors. The human body may lose its electrical charge by being grounded, but it will reestablish
its charge in a very short time, thus demonstrating the presence of electrical generators.
When a normal tissue takes on patholgoical change, it becomes an insulator of body currents. The body
currents being the main factor in nutrition, it is logical that tissues deprived of these currents will take on
degeneration.
It has been demonstrated that in fatigue of animals or vegetable tissues, the polarity of the currents was
reversed. A high-frequency current induces hyperemia without evident electrolytic action, and at the same time
changes take place which increase nutrition. Toxic agents can be overcome and prevent the cell from being
doomed.
When the entire blood stream is thoroughly heated, there is a rise in temperature, acceleration of pulse rate,
increased volatile waste and elimination of carbon dioxide. The urine is decreased in quantity while the solids
are increased. As an equalizer of the circulation, high-frequency current has no peer. The vitality of all tissues
is increased and toxins from almost any cause are eliminated.
| By: Burton Baker Grover, M.D. |