A dictionary of practical medicine: comprising general pathology, the nature and treatment of diseases, morbid structures, and the disorders especially incidental to climates, to the sex, and to the different forms of life : with numerous prescriptions for the medicines recommended, a classification of diseases according to pathological principles, a copious bibliography, with references, and an appendix of approved formulae : the whole forming a library of pathology and practical medicine and a digest of medical literature (Volume 6).

James Copland

Date:: 1834-59

Credit: A dictionary of practical medicine: comprising general pathology, the nature and treatment of diseases, morbid structures, and the disorders especially incidental to climates, to the sex, and to the different forms of life : with numerous prescriptions for the medicines recommended, a classification of diseases according to pathological principles, a copious bibliography, with references, and an appendix of approved formulae : the whole forming a library of pathology and practical medicine and a digest of medical literature (Volume 6). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$be continued for some time, the nerves entire- ly lose their excitability. These are the facts, says Matteuccu, which, independently of all theory or hypoth- esis, should guide us in therapeutical applica- tion of the electrical current to palsies. We may, in fact, admit, that in some cases of pa- ralysis the nerves of the affected limb are in a condition similar to that produced by the con- tinued passage of an electric current. We have seen that, to restore the excitability to a nerve which had been deprived of it by an electric current, it is requisite to conduct the current in the opposite direction. Hence, to cure the paralysis, the current should be passed in a contrary direction to that which has produced it. In a paralysis of motion the inverse cur- rent should be employed ; while, on the contra- ry, in a paralysis of sensation, the direct cur- rent should be used. In a case of complete paralysis, that is, of both motion and sensa- tion, there is no reason to induce us to prefer the one current to the other. Theory also teaches us a rule in its appli- cation, never to continue the passage of the current too long, lest we augment the disease we wish to cure. The more intense the cur- rent, the shorter should be its duration ; and as we have seen that the passage of the elec- tric current in the nerves, repeated at short in- tervals of time, considerably enfeebles their sen- sibility when continued for a long time, we must take care and not pass from one extreme to another. Theory advises us to apply the electric current of an intensity which should vary with the degree of the malady, and con- tinue its passage for two or three minutes, at intervals of some seconds. After these two or three minutes, during which we shall have communicated from twenty to thirty shocks, we should leave the patient at rest for some time, and then renew the treatment.—(Med. Chirurg. Review, April, 1845.) The same prin- ciples, doubtless, should regulate the applica- tion of galvano-magnetism, as of ordinary elec- tricity.] Biblioo. and Refer.—Celsus, L. iii., c. 27.—Pliny, L. xxviii., c. 16.—Paulas JEgineta, L. iii., c. 18.—Oribasius, Synopsis, 1. viii., c. 14.—Avicenna, Canon., 1. iii., fen. ii., tract, i., c. 2.—Zaculus Lusitanus, Med. Pract. Hist., 1. i., No. 45 ; et vii., obs. 13, 14, 15.—Morgagni, De Sed. et Cans. Morb., Ep. ii., art. 11, 14 ; Ep. iii., passim.—J. Sum- mers, A short Account of the Success of Warm Bathing in Paralytic Disorders, 8vo. London, 1751.—B. Franklin, On Electricity in Paraljtic Cases, Phil. Trans. Lond., 1757. —G, Cavullini, Stona d'una Paralisia curata con l'Unzione Mercunale, 4to. Venez., 1769.—R. 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Calmeil, De la Paralysie, consider^ chez les Alienes, 8vo. Paris, 1626.—J. Aber- crombie. Pathological and Practical Researches on Dis. of the Brain and Spinal Chord, 3d edit. Edinb., 1834.—7'. Chevalier, in Trans, of Med. and Chirurg. Soc, vol. iii., p. 102.—Shaw, in Ibid., vol. xii., p. 105.—//. Earle, in Ibid., vol. xiii, p. 516.—E. Stanley, in Ibid., vol. xviii., p. 260.— Seymour, Medical Gazette, Oct. 29, 1836, p. 151 ; and Dec. 24, 1836, p. 445.—R. Graves, in Ibid., May 20, 1837, p. 257. —Chandler, Dublin Journ. of Med., March, 1837, p. 164.- Craigie, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., Oct., 1836, p. 318. —Todd, in Cycl. of Practical Med., vol. iii., p. 240.—B. C. Brodie, On Injuries of the Spinal Chord ; in Trans, of Med. and Chirurg. Soc. of London, vol. xx., p. 118.— W. Budd, in Ibid., vol. xxii., p. 153.—Af. Hall, in Ibid., vol. xxii., p. 191 ; et vol. xxin., p. 121-182; and vol. xxiv., p. 83.—£. Stanley, in Ibid., vol. xxiii., p. 80.—C. Hawkins, in Ibid., vol. xxiv., p. 51.—J. 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