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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    *he face or hands, are of no consequence whatever as a general ihing : hut when they appear on the face and hands, often form a source of great embarrassment to the subject of them. These marks are now the subjects of successful removal hy Electricity or Galvanism, by passing a direct uninterrupted cur- rent through them, and causing adhesive inflammation to take place in the small vessels of the surface that carry the color- ing of the Mood. A line platina wire with a steel point is pass- ed through the mark or spot, and a current of Electricity sent through it which heats the wire nearly to a red heat. [See Lond. Lan. vol. 2, lSt52, p. 305.] CANCEROUS OREM. In that .condition of the gums and mucus surface of the mouth of children, and sometimes of adults, in which the gums are swelled, dark colored and spongy, with blood oozing from them, so disorganized that it will not coagulate, we know of nothing that will so much aid the efficiency of other means as Magnetic-Electricity, applied directly to the part affected, and to the whole system as in Scurvy and Purpura. It is a disease accompanying always an excessive low state of vitality, and nothing can be more appropriate to impart vitality in con- nection with tonics, stimulants and astringents. It may be used two or three times a day for half an hour, and would be better through the hand of a healthy person. HORSES OVER FED, OR AT AN IMPROPER TIME, OR FROM OVER DRINKING OF WATER. In all cases where the cause or condition is the same in ani- mals that it is in the human species, this agent, (Magnetic- Electricity,) is equally useful as a curative means. In one in- stance our own horse, that had been improperly fed with ears of corn, when it was in the habit of eating oats only, and driven it twenty-five miles the same afternoon. It was taken so sick with what farmers call the belly-ache, or colic, that it would lay down in the harness the moment it stopped, and before twelve o'clock at night we had exhausted all our
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