Introduction. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a method of pain relief that can help some people with long-term painful conditions. A TENS machine is a small, battery-operated device that has leads connected to electrodes.You attach the electrodes to your skin using self-adhesive pads.ranscutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a method of pain relief that can help some people with long-term painful conditions.
Yet before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, ''Native Son'' (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. ''Black Boy'' (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies.
Native Son was the original title of Chicago writer Nelson Algren 's first novel Somebody in Boots, based on a piece of doggerel about the first Texan. Algren and Wright had met at Chicago's John Reed Club circa 1933 and later worked together at the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago.