This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...process of increasing and decreasing the current was but eight minutes. Improvement was manifest from the first application, and at the present time, after twelve applications administered during the course of a month, the cure is complete. I have been thus minute in detail since this method of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...process of increasing and decreasing the current was but eight minutes. Improvement was manifest from the first application, and at the present time, after twelve applications administered during the course of a month, the cure is complete. I have been thus minute in detail since this method of application may be taken as typical of very many that are called for in neuralgic cases. There is no special law as to the number of cells to be used; but it is a very important general law, that the strength of current should not be carried to the point of pain, and as there are such wide degrees of susceptibility among individuals, the current strength necessary, must be determined anew in every case by the physician. In this latter case, the applications were stabile throughout, for the reason that from the beginning there was manifest improvement, and there was, therefore, no good reason for changing the method. If, however, there had been no benefit, or but very slight, it would have been proper to have used the labile method, thus bringing the whole length ot the arm successively in contact with the electrodes. In pursuing this course, the sponges must be pressed with great firmness on the skin, and drawn with a slow, steady and equal motion; for it will be remembered that every change in the position of the poles causes some disturbance of the current analagous to an absolute interruption, and is therefore often contra-indicated in some irritable conditions; and in the case just cited, would, in all probability, not have proved nearly so efficacious as the stabile method. Chorea (St. Vitus dance).--I know of no disease in which there are stronger indications for the use of electricity than in cases of chorea that have assumed a chronic form....
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