A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity: Including Localized and Central Galvanization, Franklinization, Electrolysis and Galvano-cautery |
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Page 537 - March, after six weeks' treatment, Dr Barker found on examination that the uterus had increased in length one quarter of an inch. The patient after an interval was again treated, but without any further local improvement. The modification of nutrition caused by electricity may have two opposite effects ; it may cause increase or it may cause diminution in the size of a part or organ. Where the part is abnormally large it causes it to grow smaller; where it is abnormally small or atrophied, as in...
Page 530 - ... heads, that the queen might see it was uninjured, and then she was led away fainting, amidst cries and tears, mingled with groans and execrations upon the cowardly assassin. It is well known that when she recovered from her swoon, she exclaimed anxiously, ' Let him not be hurt on my account ; ' and it was with the greatest difficulty that she could be persuaded to consent to his execution. " That day was held like a jubilee, and it was soon discovered that the regicide had no accomplices, but...
Page 492 - By transmitting its influence from the nape of the neck to the pit of the stomach, he gave decided relief in every one of twenty-two cases, of which four were in private practice, and eighteen in the Worcester InBrmary. The power employed varied from ten to twentyfive pairs.
Page 616 - I have obtained good results by placing the cathode over the cilio-spinal centre above the seventh cervical vertebra, and the anode in the auriculo-maxillary fossa, gradually drawing the latter (after a few moments of stabile treatment) along the inner border of the sterno-oleido-mastoid muscle to its lower extremity.
Page xi - PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE object of this work is to show how the States of Europe have gained the form and character which they possess at the present moment.
Page 490 - ... treatment is typical of what I have successfully employed in a number of similar cases. At each sitting, the muscles of the left side (those that were large and prominent) were submitted to mild galvanization for a moment or so, while the contracted sternocleido-mastoid muscle of the right side, toward which the head was inclined, was faradized with sufficient force to cause a relaxation of muscular fibre, allowing the head to turn gradually to its natural position. Upon removing the electrodes...
Page 546 - The choreic symptoms were so much diminished that the boy could readily sit quiet and alone, and during an application was able to command the movements of his body and feet. Improvement continued during the administration of a few more applications, when the child was taken to the sea-shore, where in two weeks he quite recovered.
Page 611 - ... circular manner toward and over the precordial region. The electrodes should be spongecovered and well moistened. The results arrived at from my own practice and experiments are the following: 1. That it is useless to expect good results if five minutes have elapsed since life appeared extinct. 2. That the current should be applied faithfully and steadily, one pole being placed on the ensiform cartilage, the other on the base of the skull or over the tracks of the great nerves of the neck. 3....
Page 664 - The method of operating on a small tumor is to first insert the needle connected with the positive needle underneath the tumor and near the border. A similar needle connected with the negative pole is inserted also underneath the tumor, and, if possible, at some distance below the base of the growth, so that the point emerges on the opposite side. The current is now gradually let on, and the strength increased until the electrolysis becomes active, as will be indicated by the yellowish form that...
Page 684 - Hamilton and his class, by introducing into the four quarters of the tumor four small gilded steel needles insulated to within one-quarter of an inch of the points. During the passage of a current of very moderate tension the enlargement gradually grew harder and more prominent as the blood coagulated, and at the expiration of eight minutes, when the needles were withdrawn, the part was quite firm.