The medical application of electro-magnetism / by Samuel B. Smith.
- Smith, Samuel B., approximately 1794-
- Date:
- 1853 [©1850]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical application of electro-magnetism / by Samuel B. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![I would here observe, that the right hand Conductor of the Torpedo Js more energetic than the left.—In the instructions for applying the instru- ment, I have generally, as will be seen, directed tliat the left Conductor be applied to the parts diseased; this being mucli milder in its operation. After applying it in this way a few times, it will be found advantageous to re\'erse it, and to apply the light Conductor where the left one had been a])p]ied, that is, vice versa. In Paralysis, however, on p. 57 and 58, the Conductors are not to be varied from the manner there directed. Extracts from Letters. PROTRACTED CASE of PULMONARY CONSUMPTION CURED. Extract of a k-tler from Dr, H. J. Capp, dated Suncook, N. Hamp- Bhire, June 18, 1852. Dr. S. B. Smith : Dear Sir—I have done wonders with your Torpedo Magnetic Machine, but I will trouble you with the particulars of only one case at this time. My wife has been consumptive for seven or eight years, and troubled with Scrofula, both hereditary in her father's family. Last winter she had a slow fever, and was very sick, and to all appearance, after the fever left her, was sinking away in a rapid Consumption. She raised thick pus-like matter, yellow, and sometimes bloody. She was so low that I had to put my arms under her, and lift her off and on to the bed to have the bed-clothes changed; and some of the time I had to move her limbs in bed, for she was entirely too weak to do it herself. I had your machine in the house, but almost feared to use it, as she was so weak. Her friends said that she could live but a few days in that condition, and having practised medicine a number of years, I was well aware of the truth of what they said, of the dreadful fact that she must die. I there- fore took the Machine, made an examination, and found the left lung very much diseased. I used it for 15 minutes. The next day she was better. I used it again, and I have the pleasure of informing you that in a few weeks she entirely recovered, and now at this time, her health has not been so good for eight or ten years. She calls herself well—completely recovered. She commenced to recover, and kept gaining from the very first day that I commenced to use the Machine ; and now as a physician I do not hesitate to recommend the use of your Torpedo Magnetic Machine in all nervous diseases, and in all Pulmonary Complaints. My wife, be- fore her sickness was very nervous, and she is scarcely at all so now. She is improved every way. Any person calling upon me, or writing to me shall receive all the in- formation they wish in relation to the cases I have had, and cured. H. J. Copp. DISEASE OF FIFTEEN YEARS CURED, I am rapidly recovering by the use of your Torpedo upon a 15 years disease, and have cured a case in this neighborhood worthy of record. York, Penu., October 3d, 1852. E. Harmon.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21078373_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
