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described and literature passed out and it looked pretty smooth but I wasn't satisfied. Since I'm a chemist and therefore know a little about physics and electricity, I asked a lot of questions—a lot more than the others did. Most of the answers were straight forward and reasonable and I could accept them. Some I couldn't buy and this lead to more questions and more answers until we came to an understanding. It began to seem that maybe there was something to it after all. But the proof of the pudding and all that . . . So I challenged the man to do some work on my chest both to see if it would work and to see if the pain was less as he maintained it was. I made an appointment, went to the office and bared my maidenly bosoms to him and he went to work.

Well after that I had to admit that he did in fact have something. I found out that the computer is controlling the current. There are 14 needles coming out of the machine with fine delicate wires to an overhead rack. When making an insertion the operator takes one of needles, pulls it down enough to reach the skin and makes an insertion. He repeats this with each of the 14 needles until they are all in place. It takes the operator 11⁄2 to 22 minutes to place the 14 needles depending on his or her skill. If the machine is properly set, it will be time to take the first needle out about when one finishes putting the 14th in. After removing number one, it is reinserted and on to number two and thru the whole 14 again. Where the computer comes in is that there is a tiny computer in the circuit of each needle. When the machine is set for 0.1 milliamps for example, each computer is activated to pass precisely 0.1 milliamps, no more and no less. This means that it doesn't make any difference whether a follicle is moist or dry, the current that the needle carries is sensed by its computer and if it is more than 0.1 milliamps, the computer cuts the current down until it is 0.1 milliamps and if it is a dry follicle and is not pulling the full amount the computer steps up the voltage until it is getting the right current. Naturally, like all computers, it does this instantly and continuously with the results that all 14 needles pass exactly the same current which is the amount set on the master control. Thus the ionization and conversion of the sodium chloride to sodium hydroxide is always just what the operator intends and each needle gets the same.

So, lo and behold, he worked on my chest and I have to admit that it was not nearly as painful as the blend method. The machine works by pulses of current under the "eye" of the computer. Thus a needle

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