Elements of correct techniqueE.R. Pelton, 1900 - 314 pages |
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Page 305 - ... and is marked throughout with the author's well-known practical ideas of treatment. The book is devoted to treatment and the means of making treatment successful. It is a book that physicians have long desired, and is the first work upon the subject which presents in a single volume the special and comparative merits of all forms of medical currents. To...
Page 181 - He claims that his treatment will cure every case of consumption in the first stages of the disease, 75 per cent in the second stage, and 30 per cent in the third or so-called "hopeless
Page 299 - First make yourself a skilled physician; then study the physics, physiology, mechanics and chemistry of medical electricity; then seek practical instruction in the technique of applying its general principles to the treatment of patients, and finally buy your outfit. Get experience and knowledge first, and buy last. Don't do as I did, and buy first. "Before I knew a rheostat from a megohm, and was absolutely ignorant of the difference between a galvanic and faradic current, I plunged headlong into...
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Page 281 - I look upon the galvano-meter in practical electro-therapeutics merely as a means of determining the strength of the battery at the moment when the connection with the galvanometer is made, but by no means do I believe the galvanometer absolutely necessary to indicate the exact number of miliamperes which it is essential for us to administer in a given case, or which the patient can endure.
Page 277 - This combination enables the physician to use either form of current at will, and in this respect is especially desirable for office practice or for the specialist.
Page 287 - ... brawny Jehu. Our purpose is served "when we report that this series of original experiments led the doctor to the disappointing discovery that his battery possessed neither slow rheotome nor single contact key, of which the catalogue speaks in the following terms: "This is used for single muscles and groups of muscles, a great help in diagnosis!
Page 303 - ... and physiology of galvanic, faradic, and static currents. Thereafter every page of the book is practical therapeutics. Detailed directions are given for the selection of current, choice of poles, application of electrodes, regulation of dose, duration and frequency of treatment, and the most helpful clinical particulars throughout. The...
Page 276 - The other pole, of course, may be held in the hand. Very simple. Certainly electricity is beautiful when one has all the requisite appliances! Now the patient is all ready and the current may be turned on! From a feeling of sympathy for all parties concerned, I draw the curtain upon what happened when that energetic faradic current was turned on. The patient had been an old family friend. She had before tried many things the doctor had recommended; but it is her present view, in which her physician...