Practical electro-therapeutics / by Franklin B. Gottschalk.

  • Gottschalk, Franklin Benjamin, 1867-
Date:
[1904], [©1904]
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Credit: Practical electro-therapeutics / by Franklin B. Gottschalk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    L Genera] Faradization. for sedation, with a rapid vibration adjustable for seven to nine thousand periods per minute. The vibrator must be kept well polished and thoroughly free from oxidation, for starts and jerks in the vibratory movement are often un- pleasant and sometimes harmful. In the primary coil the patient is placed in what is called a shunt circuit, permitting only an infinitesimal amount of current to traverse the tissues when the spring is in contact, the re- sistance of the coil being many ohms less than that of the body of the patient. It will be seen that all the circuit takes the short road through the cell instead of through the patient. The current gets much of its force from the de-