Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1911 — HIGH CURRENT DISEASES [ARTICLE]

HIGH CURRENT DISEASES

Many Wireless Operators Suffer* Ing With Toothach Prediction Is Made That System Will Cause Other Nervous Disorders Among Those Who Expose - Themselves. New York. —Wireless toothache, due to the high tension electrical currents produced in sending wireless messages, is the latest disease discovered by New York physicians, and it is said hundreds of wireless operators, professional and amateur, in this city and its neighborhood, are suffering from it Prediction also is made that the heavy currents discharged by the wireless telegraph will produce other nervous diseases among those who expose themselves too much to such phenomena. There perhaps are thousands of amateur wireless operators in New York city. Investigation discloses that many of them have had toothache since they began their wireless studies and experiments. What other diseases of nervous sort have followed in the wake of the current only will be revealed by scientific investigation. A prominent European physician discovered the wireless toothache, and the bad effect of the high tension currents on the nerves of his patients. He predicts there will be a general increase of nervous ailments, due to that cause. That physician says the neuronic elements are affected so by the currents that a low grade neuritis is produced which progresses according to each patient’s general physical condition, hygienic'surroundings, occupation and habits. The European investigator points out that the electricity artificially permeates the r"irroundlng atmosphere and that a person brought tn contact with it day after day, must have a great constitution to withstand its effects. Weak persons even may suffer from aggravated forms of nervous disorder by the wireless process, he asserts. When the European physician announced the disco ery of wireless toothache he was scoffed at by other doctors, who had not studied the question as he had. The discovery, however. is being regarded seriously on both sides of the Atlantic, and skilled minds are seeking to discover what other ailments may be caused by such high tension currents being loose tn the air. It Is recalled the X-ray affects the skin and tissues Insidiously and often disastrously. Nor is it any secret that persons who are compelled to pass long periods In rooms where big dynamos are in operation frequently show neurotic tendencies. Physicians who use the ultra-violet, high tension and other forms of electricity in treatment often suffer neurotic affections. These things indicate, it is suggested, that disease producing qualities lurk in electricity of which little ia known as yet Third rails, live trolley wires, teleghone and telegraph wires and other agencies are discharging into the air constantly currents of electricity which pass through persons tn the streets and elsewhere, and there are physicians who fear that as the. use of electricity increases, wireless telegraphy and telephony get in full swing, wireless toothache will be

merely one of a long list of nervous diseases directly traceable to excess of electricity in the atmosphere.