Electricity in electro-therapeutics / by Edwin J. Houston, and A. E. Kennelly.

  • Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Electricity in electro-therapeutics / by Edwin J. Houston, and A. E. Kennelly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    a tendency may exist to give, too unre- servedly, the award to Volta, on the plea that the result of his investigations pro- duced, some ten years later, the great dis- covery of the Voltaic pile, a discovery which has done so much for the world's progress, but it must not be forgotten that it was the original observations of Galvani, aided, it is true, largely by his afterwork in the same field, that first called attention to the wonderful effects which electricity produces on the animal organism, and if to-day electro-therapeu- tics, or the application of electricity for the restoration of the healthy condition of the body, is an actual power, the beneficial effects of which are apparently being more and more clearly established every year, it is undoutedly to Galvani that the guerdon of the discovery must be awarded.