Magneto-electricity, or, Electro-magnetism, medically applied for the cure of disease : designed to accompany Kinne's magneto-electric and electro-magnetic machine, containing instructions for its use, and reference to cases of practice / by William W. Kinne.

  • Kinne, William W.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Magneto-electricity, or, Electro-magnetism, medically applied for the cure of disease : designed to accompany Kinne's magneto-electric and electro-magnetic machine, containing instructions for its use, and reference to cases of practice / by William W. Kinne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pass the current over the chest, through the hand of an assis- tant. A person known to he suhject to this complaint should never be without a machine of this kind at their command. [See Channing on Medical Electricity, p. 123. STRANGULATED HERNIA. In Strangulated Hernia, which is one of those formidable surgical diseases, not unfrequently attended with loss of life to to the patient, or requiring an operation that opens into a large cavity of the body, which operation, in itself some- what dangerous, independent of the state of the bowel, may be entirely done away with by an early application of Magnetic- 'Electricity before the part becomes highly inflamed and adhe- sions take place between the bowel and surrounding parts, by exciting the muscular contractions of the bowels surely and strongly, by which means it reduces itself, and it would succeed many times, when other means had failed. The earlier it was used after the rupture took place, the more sure and readily would it succeed, and require no handling of the part, by which it would be irritated. In Strangulated Hernia which has been relieved by operation, the bowel is sometimes found in, or approaching to, a mortified or gangrenous state, which if not immediately relieved, is fatal after operation. In this statu of things, there is not so powerful and certain remedy as Mag- netic-Electricity to impart and restore life in the intestine, if applied directly to and about the part. [Lond. Lan. vol. 6, p. 274.] Passage op Gall Stones from the gall bladder would be facilitated by controling the spasms, and strictures from spasms, in the same way—also stone from the kidneys through the uretei-s into the bladder, would be rendered much less painful. Intussusception, or Invaginated Bowel—A condition almost necessarily fatal if not relieved, would be relieved by the action of a current of Magnetic-Electricity through the bowels. [See Braith. Ret. No. 21, art. 58 ; N. Y. Dissector, vol. 2, p. 52. Mode of Use in Hernia.—We pass a strong current from the mouth or pit of the stomach, to the anus, and from
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