Massage and its applications : a concluding lecture delivered to nurses and masseuses, at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy, 73, Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits.

  • Herbert Tibbits
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[1887]
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Credit: Massage and its applications : a concluding lecture delivered to nurses and masseuses, at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy, 73, Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Third Edition, in dative preparation, entirely rnrrittni and rrvimd, with 130 IlhiHtrations, ir»<. A HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ELECTRICITY. WITH A CHAPTER ON MASSAG-E AND NEUVIS VIB]{ATION. Opinions of the Medical Press. Tliis work fills up a hiatus in the litera- ture of medical electricity. It purposes to teach (to use the words ot the preface) 'the busy practitioner not only when to use elec- tricity, but in explicit and full detail how ; and 'In moderate bulk to contain only what it is essential to master.' Dr.Tibbits' object has been to give the results of the best work, and to this end he has availed himself freely of the large experience of the Electrical lioom of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. The work is what it professes to be, and is a handbook In the best sense of the woi-d. The book, indeed, answers thoroughly to the author's description: that he has 'through out endeavoured to keep con- stanf y in view the practitioner rather than the theorist,' especially in points of detail which are of importance in order to secure thesiiccessful applicatlonof electricity, and to insure(a not insignilicant matter in this respect) the comfort of the patient.—The Lancet. There is not a word of exaggeration.or of fanciful hypothesis in the book, and above all there is not the least suggestion that there is after all a mystery behind, and that the reader would do well to come to an expert for advice. On the contrary, everything is made soclearthatany practi- tioner, whether he previously knew any- thing of electricity or not, may from this book at once begin the practical use of it, and if there are any lingering doubts in the minds of some ultra-conservative per- sons as to tlie practical value of electrical treatment, this book should dispel theiri: and the busiest practitioner can, w Ithont difficulty, learn how Ui effect a large amount of good which he was previousiv quite unable even to attempt.—77//? Practitioner. As Medical Superintendent of the Na- tional Hospital for the Paralysed and Epi- leptic, as well as through privat* practice, Dr.Tibbits has had ample oppoi tunities of studying tlio application of electricity to medicine, and In the volume under notice, which aims principally at giving full and explicit details within convenient limits, Iww to use electricity, we are bound to say this object is fairly carried out.—The Dublin Journal of Medical Science. The exact value of electricity, its a the- rapeutic agent is imperfectly understood. That it is of great value in some cases as a means of improving nutrition, reliev- ing pain,and exercising disused muscles,is undoubted, but still its exact value in all cases remains to be settled, and in Dr. Tibbits' book we iind a guide which will at all events, help us to a solution of some of our difficulties.—The Medical Times and Gazette. Dr. Tibbits, who is known as an authority upon electricity, has written a concise book upon this subject for the general practitioner, embracing only the valuable part of existing knowledge. The work is written in a condensed style, and is well adapted for the practitioner who does not ninkeaspecialitvof electrical treatment. — Aeie i'ork Medical Journal. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY DR. TIBBITS. Part I., 8wo. pp. 322, price 7s. M., with 92 Illustrations, and Notes and Additions by the Translator, A TREATISE ON LOCALIZED ELECTRIZATION, By Dr. G. B. DUCHENNE. Duchenne's great work lias for years held its jilaee as the most complete on the subject of which it treats, and Dr. Tibbits, by presenting us with an English version of the forthcoming Third Edition, has earned the gratitude of tlie profession in this country. . . . . The reader will iind liimself so thoroughly instructed in the principles under- lying the medical employment of electricity, as well as in all the nietliodsof applying it, that the work can hardly fail largely to increase the use of this powerful and oftwi valuable agent . . . The translation itself is very creditable, and reads with almost as mull smoothness as original English composition, while the experience of the translat;<)r in the Electrical Room of the National Hospital gives great value to his notes and additions. We are happy to congratulate him upon liaving so far accomplished an undertaking of much utility.—T/ie Lancet. We have to congratulate Dr. Tibbits upon his successful labours thus far. Thisinstal- nient promises that the results of the best subsequent work will be incorporated into Duchenne's own treatise with so niucli judgment and adequacy as to make this Edition an independent standard .... The tenatiVe and accurate spirit of the mastor has found its kin in the spirit of his follower, and we see little in the work of either open to cavil or correction.—British and Foreign Mcdico-Chirurgical Ucvieiv.
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