Dr. John Wesley (Year 1753) zapped?????

Following are a couple paragraphs that quote John Wesley, the well-known
Methodist minister who used electricity for healing in London in the mid
1700's.
Tim Campbell

By early 1753 Wesley procured an electrical machine and began to think about
its practical application to the alleviation of human suffering. He
experimented with the machine by shocking himself for lameness and neuralgia.
A cure was certain, but gradual. He advised a person with a "stubborn
paralytic disorder to try the "new remedy. Immediate relief followed. He
recorded in his Journal, "By the same means I have known two persons cured
of an inveterate pain in the stomach, and another of a pain in his side which
he had ever since he was a child.15

Added to this report was a hint of the disdain in which he held the medical
practitioners of his day, who he felt were consumed with greed and committed
to expensive drugs. Wesley said that they would probably ignore the value of
electricity with these words: "Nevertheless, who can wonder that many
gentlemen of the faculty (physicians), as well as their good friends of the
apothecaries, decry a medicine so shockingly cheap and easy (i.e.,
electricity), as much as they do quicksilver and tar-water."


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