Treating high blood pressure, circa 1907 (click images to enlarge and read the text):
A close-up view of the blood pressure machine:
- from Scientific American, August 24, 1907.
The report sounds so confident:
The important feature is that the cure - the reduction of arterial pressure to the normal value - is permanent, and that the progress of the arteriosclerosis is arrested by the removal of the excess of blood pressure.
Seems kind of silly today, but look - one hundred years on and we're still flirting with the idea.
Here's what else was going on in 1907, and here's an early twentieth century text on treating diseases with electricity.
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Quin
I thought the point of her post was it's STILL being discussed.
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