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Related thread: Earthing/Grounding for health and conductive shoes - in the year of 1876
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When a man finds his head growing bald, his eyesight or hearing becoming impaired, his teeth decaying, or any other sign of physical disorder appears , he generally decides in his own mind that something has gone wrong in the particular region where the disease becomes visible. Hence we find a pretty wide belief in the efficacy of distinctly local treatment.
In offering a new reason why that may not always be the best course to pursue, I desire to correlate a few familiar yet significant facts which, electrically considered, might help in the elucidation of some knotty physiological points, viz.: For one, in the determination of what may be the true relative positions of cause and effect in many diseased states. In order, however, to appreciate the importance of an electrical view of the matter, it may be necessary to point out, that by a consensus of the highest scientific opinions, and by accurate experiment, it has been definitely settled that the nervous system of the body is purely an electrical system. The nerves are, therefore, the body's electric telegraph system, providing most intimate inter communication and sympathy between every point in the animal organism. It is but repeating dicta of the highest authorities to say that in this capacity the nerves are the sole vehicles in the body for the conveyance of all feeling, motion, and sensation, and that they most rigidly govern all nutrition and glandular action of every kind.
Bearing these facts in mind - particularly the fact that in all these functions, nerve action and electrical action are one and the same thing — it cannot fail to be both interesting and useful to consider the body's external or surface nerve equipment. Even a casual examination of this kind must at once draw our attention to the soles of the feet. For in no other part of the body's surface do we find such a concentration of nerve endings as we have here, where, in a wonderful and marked manner, the nerve fibrils, in myriads, are brought right out into the papillae of the skin. The great trunk nerve, the sciatic, leaving the spinal cord, descends through the leg, finally spreading out its branches, like a tree its roots, to meet the earth. Does it not force upon us the thought, that the unerring hand of Providence could hardly make such a provision as this without a purpose?
That such naturally provided nerve or electrical connection with Mother Earth may be physiologically important, seems at all events somewhat borne out by many common every-day facts, which, in this light, become peculiarly interesting. In the first place, non-interference with this natural earth contact seems to show to advantage in the singular immunity from disease enjoyed by any members of the human family who never wear any kind of foot clothing. For instance, negro and coolie laborers who have never worn shoes are almost perfect types of health and vigor. They have no decayed teeth, they are never bald, and their sight is remarkably good, even in old age. And it is a well known, and in this light a significant fact, that when any of these people are taken into other employment, where they have to wear shoes (all other conditions remaining the same as before), they invariably, ere long, show signs of physical deterioration such as we, the civilized, are peculiarly liable to.
Horses, if shod with leather or rubber shoes, covering the entire bottom of the hoof, in a little time become totally unfit for work.
Facts like these, of history as well as of our common experience, seem to stand undeniably in a kind of apposition to the theory that man may require earth connection. Why he requires that connection is another matter.
A circumstance bearing on this point may be worthy of mention, viz., if a man be insulated in a dry atmosphere, and he is made to exercise in that situation, having a conducting wire placed under his feet and led to earth, currents of natural electricity will pass along the wire from his body to the earth as long as he goes on exercising. This experiment, which has been repeatedly verified, taken along with co-ordinate scientific research, would seem to point in the direction of electric action as a possible basis for explanation of the above-mentioned physical effects.
@Inaut @Makrosky @joaquin
Excerpt:
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When a man finds his head growing bald, his eyesight or hearing becoming impaired, his teeth decaying, or any other sign of physical disorder appears , he generally decides in his own mind that something has gone wrong in the particular region where the disease becomes visible. Hence we find a pretty wide belief in the efficacy of distinctly local treatment.
In offering a new reason why that may not always be the best course to pursue, I desire to correlate a few familiar yet significant facts which, electrically considered, might help in the elucidation of some knotty physiological points, viz.: For one, in the determination of what may be the true relative positions of cause and effect in many diseased states. In order, however, to appreciate the importance of an electrical view of the matter, it may be necessary to point out, that by a consensus of the highest scientific opinions, and by accurate experiment, it has been definitely settled that the nervous system of the body is purely an electrical system. The nerves are, therefore, the body's electric telegraph system, providing most intimate inter communication and sympathy between every point in the animal organism. It is but repeating dicta of the highest authorities to say that in this capacity the nerves are the sole vehicles in the body for the conveyance of all feeling, motion, and sensation, and that they most rigidly govern all nutrition and glandular action of every kind.
Bearing these facts in mind - particularly the fact that in all these functions, nerve action and electrical action are one and the same thing — it cannot fail to be both interesting and useful to consider the body's external or surface nerve equipment. Even a casual examination of this kind must at once draw our attention to the soles of the feet. For in no other part of the body's surface do we find such a concentration of nerve endings as we have here, where, in a wonderful and marked manner, the nerve fibrils, in myriads, are brought right out into the papillae of the skin. The great trunk nerve, the sciatic, leaving the spinal cord, descends through the leg, finally spreading out its branches, like a tree its roots, to meet the earth. Does it not force upon us the thought, that the unerring hand of Providence could hardly make such a provision as this without a purpose?
That such naturally provided nerve or electrical connection with Mother Earth may be physiologically important, seems at all events somewhat borne out by many common every-day facts, which, in this light, become peculiarly interesting. In the first place, non-interference with this natural earth contact seems to show to advantage in the singular immunity from disease enjoyed by any members of the human family who never wear any kind of foot clothing. For instance, negro and coolie laborers who have never worn shoes are almost perfect types of health and vigor. They have no decayed teeth, they are never bald, and their sight is remarkably good, even in old age. And it is a well known, and in this light a significant fact, that when any of these people are taken into other employment, where they have to wear shoes (all other conditions remaining the same as before), they invariably, ere long, show signs of physical deterioration such as we, the civilized, are peculiarly liable to.
Horses, if shod with leather or rubber shoes, covering the entire bottom of the hoof, in a little time become totally unfit for work.
Facts like these, of history as well as of our common experience, seem to stand undeniably in a kind of apposition to the theory that man may require earth connection. Why he requires that connection is another matter.
A circumstance bearing on this point may be worthy of mention, viz., if a man be insulated in a dry atmosphere, and he is made to exercise in that situation, having a conducting wire placed under his feet and led to earth, currents of natural electricity will pass along the wire from his body to the earth as long as he goes on exercising. This experiment, which has been repeatedly verified, taken along with co-ordinate scientific research, would seem to point in the direction of electric action as a possible basis for explanation of the above-mentioned physical effects.
@Inaut @Makrosky @joaquin
