First time I have had a reaction to anything for a very long time. Label on soap did mention to keep away from stainless and marble, which seems strange to me.
Nature is chock-full of horrifying shit like this, fungi and wasps seem to the masters of it until you look at protozoa - best-known is Toxoplasma, which increases risk-taking behaviours in rodents infected with it, ensuring easy passage to its main host and vector: cats. Scarily, it can infect any warm-blooded animal, and so some of these traits are experienced by infected humans, as well as schizotypic and other neurologicla symptoms.
Even the symptoms of Malaria, which include intense lassitude and indifference to surroundings make it easier for its main vector - Anopheles mosquitoes - to feed from infected humans and transmit the disease to new inoculators…
I had diathermy treatment once (27MHz I think, not microwaves) to try to speed up the healing of a broken ankle. Am I the only one ?
I worked on the Harwell site, although not for AEA, and they had quite comprehensive medical facilities which we could access. Being a generally techie lot it might be that they had a diathermy unit when most physio/rehab depts didn’t. As I recall the warming was very gentle.
I was given similar treatment for a badly-sprained ankle (lots of blue-black/lots of swelling). I was alarmed when first told what treatment I would get, as I’d recently started working in operating theatres, and ‘diathermy’ was (and maybe still is) a popular method of cutting soft tissues which cauterised as it cut - not the same thing at-all, as you’re cutting with a highish-frequency AC spark, with lots of unpleasant-smelling smoke produced. Apparently it’s better known as ‘electrosurgery’, but in the early 80s we all refrred to it as diathermy.
The generators were ancient - big, heavy, buff-coloured steel boxes with bakelite knobs and open frames from the late 40s.