Lectures on electricity / by James Ferguson, F.R.S.

  • James Ferguson
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on electricity / by James Ferguson, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 4 sad pain in her stomach, which must nave been the rheumatism driven into it from her knee. I desired her to bring the child directly, which she did, and I sent a tolerably strong shock through the child’s stomach ; on which the pain ceased, and I heard nothing afterwards of any return. 85. A man, whose left shoulder had been dislocated by a fall from his horse, and his arm very much bruised all from the shoulder to the elbow, came about a year after to be electrified. He told me that a surgeon had replaced the bone very well, (as indeed it appeared to be, but the muscles had been so much bruised ,that he had never since been able to move his left hand a foot lroin his side, without the assistance of the right. I told him, there was but very little reason to hope for any cure by electricity; however, I would try ; and so gave him three shocks from the shoulder to the elbow, at the last of which, he held his arm out almost half way into a horizontal position. I desired him to come again the next day, which he did, and I gave him a couple of strong shocks : then he held his arm directly right out; and without the assistance of his right hand, he unbuttoned and buttoned the collar of his shirt with the left. Whether the use of his arm continued or not, I cannot tell; for he went away, and I never saw him nor heard of him again. 86. A woman, who had a hard swelling in her left cheek, which she told me had come on in a very few days, came to be electrified. I had hopes of success, as the complaint was of so short standing. I first drew many sparks from the cheek, and then sent a couple of gentle shocks through it; desiring her to keep it warm afterward by covering it well with a double flannel cloth. She came again on the next day: I found the swelling was then much less and soft. I drew ofif many sparks again, and gave three shocks, the last of which was pretty strong. She