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THE experiments which I have now for some years been carrying out as to the various forms of medical electricity have begun to furnish trustworthy results. Some of these, with the help of De Kilner, were incorporated in a paper read before the Society of Telegraph Engineers on March 9, 1882. We there stated that at present “we are hardly in a position to say how far the resistance of the body varies in health; but in disease it can be fairly stated that it sometimes diminishes and sometimes augments.” Of this fact we gave illustrations.
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STONE, W. Note on the Influence of High Temperature on the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body . Nature 28, 151–152 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028151a0
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