Electricity : its mode of action upon the human frame, and the diseases in which it has proved beneficial, with valuable hints respecting diet, &c., &c., &c. / by J. Adams.

  • Adams, J. (Physician)
Date:
[1895?]
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Credit: Electricity : its mode of action upon the human frame, and the diseases in which it has proved beneficial, with valuable hints respecting diet, &c., &c., &c. / by J. Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medical attendant had pronounced it chronic rheuma- tism, but had failed to afford more than temporary- relief. From the debilitated appearance of the girl, coupled with the absence of all swelling, I was led to think that the case might be one of hysteria, and the dread she evinced at the idea of my touching it, strengthened me in this opinion. Taking her foot carefully in my left hand as if I only intended to look at it, I drew off her attention to a number of casts of heads placed in different parts of the office, at the same time gradually increasing the pressure of my manipulations. The comparative freedom from pain on gradually augmented pressure proved to me that the case was one of Hysteria and not Rheumatism, and I did not hesitate to assure the parents that a few days' treatment would make a very great change in her, and that a three weeks' course of Electricity would completely cure her. In order to give them a proof of its efficacy, I at once placed her foot in a warm bath, connected with the negative pole, and passed a sponge, attached to the positive, gently down the spine, employing the Faradic current. The result was immediate relief, and the very next day she was able to walk from the waiting-room into the office without assistance, and a few days later she walked