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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE It may be useful and interesting to the read- ers of this little manual, to receive in it a con- cise history of the rise and progress of the Magnetic practice in diseases, both as it re- gards the discovery of the new symptoms which we have demonstrated, and the appro- priate treatment which we have consequently pursued. Such an history will at least con- vey some idea of the time and labor required to resist the authority of established systems of error, and check their career of mischief, even when the clearest truth is brought to oppose the most manifest absurdities. It is now thirty-four years since we first discovered the Magnetic symptoms of tubercu- lar disease of the organs and muscles, on which we founded a magnetic treatment of a large class of chronic diseases. These symp-