Electro-therapy in gynæcology / by Samuel Sloan.

  • Sloan, Samuel, 1843-1920.
Date:
[1917]
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Credit: Electro-therapy in gynæcology / by Samuel Sloan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Uterine Fibroids No case of Fibroid Tumour was treated by electricity, unless for bleeding or pain. The following are the results-—- Table (h).—Fibroids. Treated by Greatly Benefited. Not Benefited. Galvanisation .... 4 3 1 Faradisation. 2 1 1 Galvanisation and Faradisa- tion. o SJ 1 1 Galvanisation, Faradisation and High-frequency 1 1 Totals. 9 6 3 This record, though a small one, is not unfavourable to the employment of electricity in cases of fibroids, where these are causing bleeding or distress. Out of a total of nine, six cases showed considerable improvement. Of the unsuccessful cases, one—No. 30—suffered mainly from pain. She was an epileptic, and was so frightened by the current that the treatment had little chance. In another case—No. 24—where there was pain and haemor¬ rhage, absolutely no good resulted from the electricity or from a course of treatment which she had obtained in a hospital. In case No. 51 the patient died from a sudden attack of haemorrhage two weeks after her last treatment. This patient was too weak to have made an operation safe. The report, one month before the fatal haemorrhage, was : 44 Perhaps fully more than half as much blood lost now as was the case a year ago; the general health, compared to one year ago, is now decidedly better.” Of the successful cases, the result was in some instances most satisfactory. As an example, in case 13, two months after treatment commenced, the length of the uterine canal fell from 44 4| ins. at least,” to 4 ins. ; whilst two months after the cessation of the treatment, the patient’s husband wrote to me thus : 44 My wife has