Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood].

  • Wood, Loftus
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obftri'K^ion. The only efFeftual method Is tQ infulate the patient, and keep the part po^i-^ tively electrified by a powerful machine, for a confiderable time, and this to be repeated ac- cording to the exigency of the cafe ; by this means the circumambient air and moiflure draws off this matter imperceptibly through the pores, and inftead of a few of thefe duCts being only perforated by a fingle fhock, mil- lions are laid open at the fame time, by the moifi: air being in contraCt with the perfoii who is in the pofitive {late of eleCtricity. The celebrated Dr. De Haen, who was firft Phyfician at Vienna, ufed this mode of elec- tricity with great fuccefs, in the cure ma- ny difbrders; in fome cafes, he would keep the patient eleClrified for the fpacc of an hour at a time, and this repeated twice a day for a week,—a method rarely praCliced by our mo- dern electricians. I have made ufe of pofitive elcCtricity in a variety of cafes, with much advantage, but never fucceeded fo as to perform a lafling cure, except by De Haen's method. It is almoft univerfally acknowledged, that inflammatory and acute diforders, are increafed by electrici- ty: