Observations on medical electricity, containing a synopsis of all the diseases in which electricity has been recommended or applied with success; likewise pointing out a new and more efficacious method of applying this remedy by electric vibrations / [Francis Lowndes].

Lowndes, Francis

Date:: 1787

Credit: Observations on medical electricity, containing a synopsis of all the diseases in which electricity has been recommended or applied with success; likewise pointing out a new and more efficacious method of applying this remedy by electric vibrations / [Francis Lowndes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$* [ ] In many fpecies of Paralyfes Electricity may cer¬ tainly be confidered as the molt effectual remedy that can be employed. Were it had recourfe to at an early period of the difeafe, during that time which is often wafted in drinking fome mineral water, or fwallowing an infignificant drug, much might be expected from its ufe.—But when it is only repaired to as a kind of defperate expedient, after the confti- i 4 tution is debilitated by having undergone the whole round of {Emulating medicines, and time has in- creafed the inveteracy of the difeafe, how can Elec¬ tricity be expected to fucceed ? Such conduct, indeed, is too common in every cafe where this remedy is made ule of. It is feldom men¬ tioned till the patience either of the patient or the Dotor, or perhaps of both, is exhaufted, when Eletricity is recommended and employed, lather with a view to get decently rid of eacn otncr, than from any well-founded hopes oi obtaining a cuie. This being the cafe, it is rather to be wondered at that it ever fucceeds, than that it fometimes fails. \ Would the Faculty in general lay afide prejudice, and candidly recommend it in cafes where its ufe is plainly indicated—would mankind confult their own welfare,$