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rapidly alternating liigli potential, tlie skin is lieated by bom-bardment. It is a mere question of the dimensions and characterof the apparatus to produce any degree of heating desired.

It has occurred to me whether, with such apparatus properlyprepared, it would not be possible for a skilled physician to findin it a means for the effective treatment of various types of dis-ease. The heating will, of course, be superficial, that is, on theskin, and would result, whether the person operated on were inbed or walking around a room, whether dressed in thick clothes orwhether reduced to nakedness. In fact, to put it broadly, it isconceivable that a person entirely nude at the North Pole mightkeep himself comfortably warm in this manner.

Without vouching for all the results, which must, of course, bedetermined by experience and observation, I can at least warrantthe fact that heating would occur by the use of this method ofsubjecting the human body to bombardment by alternating cur-rents of high potential and frequency such as I have long workedwith. It is only reasonable to expect that some of the novel ef~fects will be wholly different from those obtainable with the oldfamiliar therapeutic methods generally used. Whether theywould all be beneficial or not remains to be proved.