RE: Rad Safety Training - HazMat Team

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

1 amp!   I do hope that's a misprint.  1 milliamp would be more than
sufficient to, shall we say, "get your undivided attention". 

Besides, diathermy is treatment with heat, not current.

Dave Neil
neildm@id.doe.gov

On Monday, August 23, 1999 1:15 AM, Jean-Charles ABBE [SMTP:abbe@in2p3.fr]
wrote:
> Before Viagra existed ...
> 
> 	Before second World war, diathermie was popular. This technique
> consisted in sending a continuous 1 amp current to the testicles, using
> electrodes, to give a flogging to the tired glands. But a more convenient
> method could be used and much less tidous: small balls of radium, settled
> in place by straps, to deliver to the right place "slightly stimulating" X
> rays doses
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