Martin weighs in about Nickola Tesla, stating, “In 1900 Nickola Tesla, the greatest man in electrical research work, that this or any other country has ever known, directed his attention to investigating the reasons why electricity had proved a failure in the treatment of disease.” (Martin, 1921, p.442) Monell also weighs in: “In transforming the primary current into high-frequency discharges Tesla took from it some of its former properties. One man from this period was well known to the naturopathic community as one who recognized the dangers of electricity and contributed to its safe use. If introduced in large volume it has the effect of shocking the nervous system to such an extent as to produce death.” (Martin, 1921, p.442) Indeed, the judicial system in this period soon employed this feature of electricity with inhumane ferocity. For example, many who were subjected to the early electric treatments “received violent currents … it did not take long, however, to discover the error of these methods.” (Martin, 1921, p.442) When electricity is administered in low voltage to a human body, the effect is “violently contracting muscular tissue. Unfortunately, that same literature reports that the early devices often did more harm than good. Nevertheless, assumptions were made and accumulated that electricity would answer many of the woes of disease. One such electrotherapy that was prominent a century ago was the high-frequency device called Violet Ray.Īs Martin reports just after the end of WWI, “With the advent of electric lights and electric power motors, the medical profession set to work toward applying this electric force to the human system and with their then crude knowledge, they made machines known as static, galvanic and faradic.” (Martin, 1921, p.442) Although much was written about the potential of electricity, manifesting in various devices and protocols, the literature shows that little was understood about the larger and more sustained uses of electricity itself, in whatever medium of delivery or application. This fascination is still with us as we are always on the lookout for new diagnostic and documentation tools in the form of devices in providing health care for our patients. The world of electricity offered much promise to the medical arts. In an article published in 1900, Schaefer exclaims, “Nothing in modern science causes us so much amazement as electricity, the sovereign ruler of all.” (Schaefer, 1900, p.110) It was an exciting time with the wireless telegraph, the unrelenting spread of analog telephone systems, and the growth of X-ray use. The early naturopaths were themselves smitten with the mysteries of electricity. The popularity of electric devices was as pervasive a century ago as today. The Violet Ray in the early 20 th century was heralded as an important discovery in the field of electrotherapy. The Electro-Therapist using a Violet Ray machine accomplished the final cure, this by adjusting balance to the nervous system and restoring normal circulation. To overcome danger of shock Tesla also found it was necessary to give electricity in very small doses (homeopathically it might be expressed), and therefore, he reduced the amperage to practically a negative quantity in the Tesla coil with which Violet Ray is equipped. Electricity is present, not only in all the objects of nature about us, but also in every human and animal being, therefore I maintain that it is this which constitutes the primal cause and preservative force of the life of functions.
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