The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical machine : with the addition of some philosophical experiments and medical observations.

  • Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806.
Date:
1783
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Credit: The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical machine : with the addition of some philosophical experiments and medical observations. 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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    hurt. A healthy fibre is never injured by- it. It may confequently be conveyed without any difficulty or apprehenfion to the feat of any local diforder, as it may be pafl'ed without any diminution of its virtue through the intervening found parts. 5. Simple electrization, or ftanding on the ftool, is affirmed to increafe the circu- lation of the blood, and prom.otes glan-- dular fecretion. 6, The various applications of electri- city are particularly ferviceable in obftruc- tions. In many diforders, whofe remote caufes are of this nature, its action and effefts are bej^ond expectation. The fup- preffion of the catamenia and all its con- fcquent evils are removed to almoll an ab- folute certainty, by pafiing the eledric matter through the region of the pelvis. Very many inftances of patients relieved from the moft hopelefs fituation confpire to recommend this remedy as fpeeific in fach cafes; and the advantages mankind j3iay reap from it are m fo much the mora valuable^