The value of electrical treatment / by Julius Althaus.

  • Julius Althaus
Date:
1895
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Credit: The value of electrical treatment / by Julius Althaus. 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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    CONTENTS. Introductory Remarks ........ i Franklinic or Static Electricity ....... 3 Electricity in Motion : The Constant Current—Ohms and Volts—Amperes and Coulombs ...... 4 Instruments Required : The Battery—Rheostat—Galvano- meter—Coulombmeter — Rheophores—Electrodes . . 6 Density of the Current . . . . . . . .12 General Rules for Electrical Treatment—Dosage of Current— Length of Application—Current must pass through the Seat of the Disease—Importance of Clinical Experience for determining Localisation . . . . . . .13 Mode of Action of the Constant Current—Electrotonus—Nerve- Fibres and Neurones—Active and Indifferent Electrodes— Stimulating Effects—Catalytic Effects—Action on Vasomotor Nerves—Electrolysis—Cataphoresis—Indirect Catalysis . 17 Central Galvanisation — General Galvanisation —Hydro-electric Bath—Combined Electrical and Mineral Water Treatment— Electric Hot-Air and Vapour Baths ..... 24 Faradisation — Faradimeter — Effects of Faradism — General Faradisation. ......... 27 The Value of Electrical Treatment in General Debility—Old Age—Failure of Brain Power—of the Singing Voice . . 28 Mental Affections—Hysteria—Hemiplegia—Paralysis Agitans— Epilepsy .......... 36 Diseases of the Spinal Cord—Transverse Myelitis—Progressive Locomotor Ataxy—Spastic Spinal Paralysis—Infantile Para- lysis—Progressive Muscular Atrophy—Spinal Debility . 46 Neuritis—Local Palsies—Facial Palsy—Paralysis of the Deltoid Muscle—Neuritis of the Brachial Plexus—Paralysis of the Musculo-spiral Nerve . ....... 53
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