The medical advantages of Dr. Paige's perpetual electrometers and galvanic supporters : with directions for their use / by A. Paige.

  • Paige, A.
Date:
1852
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Credit: The medical advantages of Dr. Paige's perpetual electrometers and galvanic supporters : with directions for their use / by A. Paige. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will be seen that the plates, or pads, are connected by means of the springs, which, while they afford mechanical support, at the same time constitute a part of the electrical circuit, being conductors ; and that, when the instru- ment is adjusted, the circuit is completed by the current passing through the parts to be affected. The great advantages to be derived from such an application of this most powerful agent rjust at once become apparent. 20. All his electrometers are constructed upon the same principle, and are most successfully employed in the treatment of diseases of those parts for which they are intended. The annexed figures give a very correct view Fig. 4. of these instruments, as they are adjusted to different portions of the system. Upon the head, and just back of the ears, plates are fitted, and connected