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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    dren and infants, and an auxiliary to other remedies, used once or twice a day through the hands of two healthy persons, each one holding a pole in one hand and placing the other on, over and all about the abdomen, and from the spine to the bowels under as strong a power of the machine as can be borne comfortably. For Abdominal Distension and Flatulency it should be used in the same manner as above, only it is not ne- cessary to use it through the hands of other persons, unless the patient be a child. CONSTIPATION. In this complaint, when it arises from a sluggish, cold, and an inactive state of the system, there is not a more efficient and perfect remedy in our possession. We have often had it produce the desired effect (a free evacuation of the bowels) in from fifteen to thirty minutes. The physician will suggest such other administration of medi- cines as each case may require. Mode ov Using the Machine.—In this condition of the system, we put one pole into the mouth, or apply it to the pit of the stomach, and pass the other pole over the bowels, more particularly the lower portion, and even to the fundament, or lower end of the bowel, from fifteen to twenty minutes, under as strong a power of the machine as can be well borne by the patient. Repeat it every day, and continue it from twenty to .thirty minutes at each time. [Braith. Ret. No. 21, art. 64.] DELIRIUM TREMENS. In this form of disease, or nervous aberration, the author has derived much benefit from the use of Magnetic-Electricity in quieting the distressing state of nervous and mental excita- bility, which if not removed, harasses the patient to death. It operates by giving tone to the nervous function, and should be applied one, two, or three times a day, as the urgency of tbe symptoms may require, and continued at each time un- til a degree of mental and bodily quiet is restored. Through the hands of an assistant, the operator may apply it to the
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