The embrace of a rigid biological determinism...
+..IDM beautiful! +..minimal +.. a song for foxes Field Notes by Noodle Therapy + Sun & Smoke by Theef + Feral Verdure by BIG BRAVE To treat their patients’ nervous prostration, these doctors invented an enormous variety of nerve tonics whose ingredients remained trade secrets. Many contained dangerous substances, some of which proved addictive: strychnine, morphine, cocaine, and lithium salts, for example. Others proffered animal extracts designed to fortify the nerves. Hydrotherapy was another treatment they frequently employed; while in their consulting rooms, patients connected to elaborate machines received jolts of electricity to provide painful stimuli to the body. Electrotherapy had been popular in some circles from the eighteenth century onward, but for many it had the odor of the charlatan and the quack. As neurologists began to demonstrate the role of electricity in transmitting nervous impulses, however, it was not difficult to persuade themselves an...
