Comments on: The Jumping Frenchmen https://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818 SunSync Nutrition Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:18:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.15 By: sunsync Nutrition https://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818&cpage=1#comment-10907 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:27:17 +0000 http://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818#comment-10907 According to The New York Times (Apr. 13, 1933) …

“DR. A. D. ROCKWELL DIES IN 93D YEAR; New York Physician’s Career Marked by Adventure and Achievement; RODE WITH GEN. SHERMAN; Five Horses Shot Under Him; A Pioneer in Electrotherapeutics; Helped Develop Death Chair.”

]]> By: sunsync Nutrition https://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818&cpage=1#comment-10906 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:21:12 +0000 http://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818#comment-10906 AI: “Dr. Alphonso David Rockwell assisted in developing the electric chair for capital punishment, but later in life, he expressed regret, opposing it as a measure of vengeance.”

]]> By: sunsync Nutrition https://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818&cpage=1#comment-10905 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:19:40 +0000 http://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818#comment-10905 AI: “Dr. Alphonso David Rockwell co-authored A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity with Dr. George Miller Beard. He was also a prominent physician in New York City, treating families like the Astors and Vanderbilts.”

And: “He detailed his life in his book, Rambling recollections; an autobiography (1920).”

]]> By: sunsync Nutrition https://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818&cpage=1#comment-10904 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:16:36 +0000 http://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818#comment-10904 AI: “Dr. Alphonso David Rockwell (1840-1933) was a pioneering 19th-century American physician and neurologist known for advancing electrotherapeutics and his early involvement in developing the electric chair. A Civil War surgeon, he co-authored seminal texts on medical electricity and treated prominent New York families.”

]]> By: sunsync Nutrition https://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818&cpage=1#comment-10903 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:14:10 +0000 http://www.sunsyncnutrition.com/blog/?p=3818#comment-10903 According to the National Library of Medicine …

“George Beard, M.D. (1837–1883): Neurologist

“George Beard is credited with coining the word ‘neurasthenia,’ a term that came into great prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“Beard received his medical degree in 1866 at The College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and then joined Dr. A. D. Rockwell, a New York neurologist who was using electricity in medical and surgical therapy and with whom Beard later published favorably received book on the subject.”

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