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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    valuable, as the materia medlca furnifnes us with few medicines at all adequate to the purpofe. The method of admiPxifter- ing electricity for thefe diforders is to place the patient between the two balls hh. Fig. 11. Plate III. placed on oppofite fides of the waift, and accordingly as the fenfation is more or iefs difagreeable, the balls muft be removed nearer to or farther from the body. In fome inftances, the points m.ay be fubfti- tuted inftead of the balls. Care mjaft be taken to be afTured, that the patient is not pregnant, and the eie6lricity fliould rather be too w^eak than too ilrong, for fear of pro- ducing an imriioderate flow. 7^ Nervous diforders in general give way to gentle eledrization, but are fometimes aggravated by the application of too great a force._ Nervous head-aches are often mitigated and entirely reUeved by the elec- tric wind from a metallic or wooden point, applied at a diftance oppofite the temples and fucceffively round the head. The ef- fects of too much irritation are fp exceeds ingly