The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered / by Homer Clark Bennett.

  • Bennett, Homer Clark, 1865-1928.
Date:
[1912]
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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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    Science is the sum of demonstrated facts, and we have endeavored to place before you, in a simple language, and a clear and concise manner, the series of electric facts which have been demonstrated. Knowing these facts, and the laws governing the production of the phenomena, the application of them is easy, and the practical technique follows a logical sequence. However, we will now proceed to go more into detail, in the treatment of some of the general constitutional and local diseases, and give special technique in those conditions which will most frequently confront the beginner, and bring the best results. As this book deals entirely with electro-therapeutics we shall not enter into the etiology of disease, or the pathological conditions, or the medical treatment of the case. We take it for granted that the physician who reads this book, has carefully studied the course of thirty lessons in electro-therapeutics from the National College of Electro-Therapeutics, Lima, Ohio, to which this guide is but a corollary or supplement, and has correctly diagnosed the case to be treated; that he recognizes the pathological conditions and is familiar with the medical treatment of the case. It should be understood that no kind of electrical treatment contra-in- dicates the use of internal or local medication, or the use of such adjuvants as massage, baths, exercise, diet, etc. It is frequently advisable to combine these methods with electrical treatment. In outlining a definite line of treatment for each disease, which we shall now do, it should not be necessary to explain in minute detail the method of supplying a certain line of treatment, if the following pages devoted to questions and answers and the course of thirty lessons have been carefully studied and remembered. For example, if general faradiza- tion or central galvanization is the treatment recommended, we cannot specify in each individual disease where to hold the positive and where the negative pole, or whether to use the primary or secondary coil. In each case the physician should understand whether a sedative or a stimulating effect is desired, and the following pages or lessons have told him how to secure either sedation or stimulation, with either general faradization or central galvanization. It should not be necessary for us to state in each disease where the faradic battery is used whether the primary or secondary coil should be used, but the difference in effect between the two coils and where each