PREFACE 



WHEN this book, a plainly \Yritten account of 

 laborious research, passes into the hands of 

 reviewers I would ask those gentlemen to remember that 

 a great humanitarian question is involved and that while 

 my personal opinion upon matters of detail may seem worthy 

 of attack, the fundamental truth I have put forward, first 

 in Electro-Pathology and Therapeutics, second in Studies in 

 Electro-Physiology and for the third time in the present 

 volume is of too great importance to mankind to be passed 

 over, or to be, to all intents and purposes, shelved, by 

 saying there is very little that is new in it. 



One outcome of my research work has been Dielectric 

 Therapy, the use of a standardised paraffin in the treat- 

 ment of local pyrexia. There is abundant evidence to prove 

 that by the use of this remedial agent pneumonia can be 

 deprived of its danger in a few hours, that it removes all 

 pain from burns in a few seconds and that as it does not 

 interfere with metabolism it promises to displace the anti- 

 septic method of treatment of wounds. If that is not new 

 why, I ask, is there no mention of paraffin as a remedy for 

 local pyrexia in the Pharmacopoeia? Many hundreds of 

 physicians have had experience of its efficacy. 



What I have endeavoured to do is to study natural 

 processes and to find out exactly what happens and how it 

 happens, and I hit upon a line of research which has been 

 productive of enlightenment. It has enabled me to explain 

 many things that were lacking of explanation and to view 

 physiological problems from a new standpoint ; to peer 

 through the door opening into a hitherto unexplored field 

 and to describe such things as I have been able to see. 



