Medical electricity : a practical handbook for students and practitioners.

  • Jones, H. Lewis (Henry Lewis), 1857-1915.
Date:
1913
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Medical electricity : a practical handbook for students and practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I FIRST PRINCIPLES AND DEFINITIONS PAGES Electroscopes—Conduction — Electromotive force—Capacity—Con- densers—Leyden jar—Contact electromotive force—The Voltaic cell—Electrolysis—Anions and Katliions—Resistance—Ohm's Law—Units of measurement—Primary and secondary cells— Magnetic field—Galvanometers — Electromagnetic induction— The induction coil—The dynamo machine—Alternating currents —The transformer ........ i -62 CHAPTER II MEDICAL BATTERIES AND APPARATUS The continuous current—Commutators—The galvanometer—Inter- rupted currents—Medical coils—Leduc apparatus for interrupted currents—Resistances—Electrodes—Arm-bath electrodes—The electric bath—Rhythmic interrupters ..... 63-110 CHAPTER III CAUTERY AND LIGHTING INSTRUMENTS—THE ELECTRO-MAGNET The galvano-cautery—Batteries for cautery purposes—Accumulators —Wires and leads—Lamps—Batteries for lamps—The cysto- scope—Endoscopes—The antrum lamp—The electro-magnet— Ozone. . . . . . . . . .111-129 CHAPTER IV THE UTILIZATION OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT MAINS Regulation of pressure and of current—Use of shunt circuits—Trans- formers—Motor generators—Multostats and polystats—Dangers of electric light mains—Accumulator charging—The aluminium cell—Electric lamps in therapeutics—The Finsen lamp—The Cooper-Hewitt lamp—Kromayer's quartz lamp . . . 130-159