On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

  • Froriep, Robert, 1804-1861.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance. 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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    RHEUMATIC EFFUSION. Rheumatic effusion occurs mostly into the cellular tissue; most frequently into the subcutaneous cel- lular tissue; also into the structure of the corium; into the cellular tissue, beneath the aponeuroses; into the cellular tissue of the muscles; into the periosteum ; and into the serous membranes. This effusion is most apparent when situated in the subcutaneous cellular tissue, appearing striated and pretty sharply bounded when of little extent, but when diffused causing an elastic swelling of the limbs: this is the product of the rheumatic affection, but may also be described as the me- chanical cause of the continued alteration of the nervous energy. I will give an example of acute rheumatism to remove any doubt as to the fact of its being rheumatism. Let us take, for example, an attack of acute rheumatism of the shoulder: we have pain suc- ceeded by immobility of the shoulder and upper- arm ; the pain is lasting and acute; after a short time febrile symptoms set in, when, if we examine the shoulder, we find a tense swelling, with a red and shining surface. At first it is only cedema- b2