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Re: pinhigh post# 301744

Thursday, 11/03/2022 6:05:13 PM

Thursday, November 03, 2022 6:05:13 PM

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Correct pinhigh , but actually it goes back 2,000 years.

Electric current to cure arthritis and cephalaea in ancient Greek medicine

Electricity in ancient Greece was a known phenomenon as well. Ancient Greeks attributed to god Zeus (Greek: ??a?), father of gods and men, the thunderbolt as the ultimate sacred weapon (Figure 1A).8,9 Ancient Greek philosophers had tried to understand amber's electromagnetic properties and thus to interpret the divine thunderbolts' mystery. Soon, electric currents had been used in medicine to treat arthritis and local swelling and pain, and cephalaea as well. The ancient Greeks used the electric shocks from the fish "Narce" (Greek: ?????, English: Torpedo fish), an Electric Ray fish, to treat headaches and arthritis

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