Manual for magnetizing, with the rotary and vibrating magnetic machine, in the duodynamic treatment of diseases / by H.H. Sherwood.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1847
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Credit: Manual for magnetizing, with the rotary and vibrating magnetic machine, in the duodynamic treatment of diseases / by H.H. Sherwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aspects of the tongue and urine, and the color and odor of the stools, &c. There is however nothing more uncertain than these signs or symptoms, unless it if the treatment founded upon them, as is well known to our faculty: yet they are taught as a science with all the gravity due to these subjects, in- volving life or death. On the contrary there is nothing more certain, than the magnetic symp- toms, or the duodynamic treatment founded on them, in the absence of accidents not under the control of the physician ; yet such is the attach- ment of men to old systems—the old astrolo- gical symptoms and treatment will continue to be taught by the professors in our medical colleges as long as they are of any value in their market. Acute and chronic tubercula, or inflamma- tory, and chronic diseases of the serous mem- branes, or serous surfaces of the body, organs or limbs; including the skin ami facia of the muscles, is easily and invariably distinguish- ed by pain more or less severe (in proportion to the intensity of the disease) produced by pressure on the ganglions of the spinal nerves, in the intervertebral spaces along each side of the spine without any previous knowledge of the case—no matter what name may have been given to the disease by physicians, noso- logists, or other medical writers