Cold report

[Guest guest]

Last thurs a co-worker wrote me about his cold he'd had since Sunday. It had

spread quickly to two other members of his family and he and they were

miserable.

I invited him over to go over an old original godzilla he and I built years ago,

very nice unit but without the sponges. It was fun to see this thing.

Extrememly well made and stylish, with a meter and both a rough and fine trim

knob to precisely adjust the power. He brought new batteries, since he said it

must have gone dead after nearly 10 years.

No such thing. I turned it on and adjusted the meter to right setttings, and it

worked like new. No signs of wear, just a perky stingy jolt when he applied it.

It used 36 volts tamed by various resistors. It is not a substitute for today's

finer simpler units, not by far. But it was like loading and firing a fine old

musket from the Revolutionary War...elegant, simple, powerful, and ill-conceived

but admirable in spirit.

Well off he went it was hard to fix him after he had the cold so long but we

tried and he felt some better.

36 hours later, as I had suspected, I had his cold too.

5 am it awoke me with sniffles and sneezes. I got out my godzilla, the metered

one in our files, the same one you can build for yourself in 15 minutes for

under 20 bucks, and applied it 20 minutes. I used the large sponges on one side

of nose covering all of one side of the nose against the cheek and over the eye

on one side, the other one under the chin on opposite side of face, for 5

minutes, then reversed the sponges in the same positions to reverse the positive

and negative currents. I then switched to put one sponge over the opposite side

of the nose covering all of one side and one eye, with the other one under the

chin on opposite side of face.

I went back to sleep till 10 am. Awoke without symptoms. Applied same way for

another 20 minutes and went back to sleep.

When I awoke around 11, I repeated the process only 5 minutes on each side, once

more.

By 5 pm I had only vague cold-like feeling but no congestion or running nose, no

other symptoms. I went into a hot tub for an hour. After that, no more

symptoms at all. (probably gave it to those at the hot tub however.)

Anyway, this again is amazing, and I will file it in our files under colds.

bG