How to use a galvanic battery in medicine and surgery : adiscourse delivered before the Hunterian Society / by Herbert Tibbits.

  • Herbert Tibbits
Date:
1886
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Credit: How to use a galvanic battery in medicine and surgery : adiscourse delivered before the Hunterian Society / by Herbert Tibbits. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    considerable force against the practitioner's hand, and afterwards apply it to the lumbar region. Contraction of the uterus will invariably result if the current used he of sufficient power. uterine _ In my own hands an intractable case of uterine neuralgia was perfectly cured by the Yoltaic current; and I have knowledge of a case of sterility, sterility which the localization of the Voltaic and Faradaic currents alternately would seem to have removed. One conductor was applied to the os, and two sponges from the second pole—one to the position of each ovary. The applications were made thrice a week for a fortnight before each menstrual period, and for a period of four months. Conception followedj and the patient, who had been married for thirteen years, in due course gave birth to her first child. Paralysis Xhc stimulaut effccts of electricity are occasion- of Nerves ^ of Special ally beneficial in the treatment of paralysis of the nerves of special sense, especially of the o]Dtic and auditory nerves, while its use has been advocated in a multitude of diseases to which I shall not ' further refer, than by saying that a clear com- prehension of the principles of electro-therapeutics will prevent the occurrence of difficulty in any special application of them; and let us shortly recapitulate the most important of these principles. Resume of , , . . . . , general We havc sccu that electricity is a stimulant, a of Electro- scdative, a restorative, and an absorbent. Its peutics. stimulant properties are chiefly of use in diseases
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