Electro-pathology and therapeutics : an account of many years' research work; the discovery of the electro-pathology of local pyrexia, and of an effective means of staying inflammation / by Arthur E. Baines ... together with a prefatory treatise upon the Nervous system in its relation to neuro-electricity, by F.H. Bowman.

  • Baines, Arthur E.
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[1914?]
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Credit: Electro-pathology and therapeutics : an account of many years' research work; the discovery of the electro-pathology of local pyrexia, and of an effective means of staying inflammation / by Arthur E. Baines ... together with a prefatory treatise upon the Nervous system in its relation to neuro-electricity, by F.H. Bowman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following are the figures :— Time. Temperature. Pulse. 9.30 p.m. 103-3 1271 10.20 101-2 120 11.0 101-4 116 11.30 99 101-2 112j 3.0 a.m. 100-8 1081 7.0 9 9 100-2 108 9-30 99 100-4 104 11.0 99 100-2 102 Noon 100-2 98 1-0 p.m. 99-3 84 3-0 99 99-3 84 6-0 99 99-3 80 9-0 99 99 80 Patient slept all night. 7-0 a.m. 99-2 88) 6-0 p.m. 98-4 75/ Patient slept all night. 7-30 a.m. 98-6 80) 4-30 p.m. 98-4 70] Note. Dielectric applied 9.30 p.m. Second day. Third day. Fourth day. And after that time the patient retained a normal tempera- ture, regained strength and shortly afterwards went to the seaside. It is worthy of note that fifty minutes after a pad soaked in the dielectric wras placed over the appendix and two ounces administered by the mouth, the temperature had fallen from 103'3° to 10P2°. The Treatment of Local Pyrexia considered in relation to the Cure of Tuberculosis. Commenting upon Professor Ehrlich’s address in Pathology on Chemotherapeutics, delivered in general session of the last Medical Congress, The Lancet observes : “ Is it too much to hope that in their turn tuberculosis and cancer will become controllable?” f 2