About the book  "... Life on Earth originated and developed in interaction with electromagnetic fields. Electricity is inherent in the living in its most complicated form - the vital activity of man. Scientists have done much in studying this amazing interaction of electricity and the animate but much in nature is still concealed, much must be analyzed and understood. This book will help to widen the reader's understanding of the interaction of electricity and the living organism, although it makes no claim to exhaust the subject ... " The book was translated from the Russian by George Kittell and was published by Mir in 1978  CONTENTSTo the English Reader 7 By Way of Preface 8PART ONE ELECTRICITY CURES 11Chapter One Electrophysics of Inanimate Nature 111. Motion, Motion, Motion... 112. Electric Conduction in Metals 133. Electrical Resistance of Solutions 184. Neither Conductor nor Insulator 195. Semiconductors with Impurity Conduction 226. Organic Semiconductors 27Chapter Two Electrophysics of the Living Organism 351. Amazing Electrical Conductivity 352. Significance of Changes in the Electrical Properties of the Living Organism 423. Examples and Evidence 45Chapter Three Physical Properties of the Biosphere 53 1. Electricity Round Us  532. Where is Magnetism and Where are the Magnetic Fields ? 573. Magnetic Storms and Man 604. Electricity and the Ratiobiosphere 66Chapter Four Items from the Prehistory of the Use of Electricity in Medicine 741. First Discoveries 74 2. An Important Investigation 76 3. The Prize Awarded to Marat 78 4. Dispute between Galvani and Volta 81 5. V.V. Petrov’s Experiment The Beginning of Electrodynamics 85 6. Use of Electricity in Medicine and Biology in the 19th Century 89Chapter Five The Physician’s Electric Assistant  931. The Origin of Biological Currents 93 2. The Electrocardiogram 96 3. The Electrocardiograph 101 4. Remote Diagnosis 104 5. Taking Medicine Without Powders or Pills 112PART TWO ELECTRICITY IS DANGEROUS 118Chapter Six In What Way is Electricity Dangerous ? 1181. Events in Vasilevsky Island, St. Petersburg1182. Electric Trauma and Some Statistics1213. Temporary Wiring1234. A “Horse Accident” 1255. Examples of Electric Trauma 1266. Is a Low Voltage Dangerous ? 1317. One Hundred and TenkV Power Transmission Line in the City, and the Electric Safety ofMedical Instruments 134Chapter Seven Biophysics of Electric Injury 1391. Fundamentals for Study 1392. The Dispute Continues 1413. Man—a Self-regulating System 1444. Something Unexpected 1465. Danger! 1496. Electricity Kills Animals as well as People 152Bibliography 156