Manual of static electricity in X-ray and therapeutic uses / by S.H. Monell.

Date:
1897
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    sedatives. Clinical remarks upon practical methods of treatment. Uniform efficiency of apparatus essential to uniform results. Three tests for de- termining the normal maximum of current from any static apparatus, pages 431-442 PART 11. Recent Improvements in the Static Electrical Machine, 1790, page 445 CHAPTER I. Historical Therapeutics. Study of this section indispensable to a correct understanding of static electricity as a remedial agent. The accuracy of early investigations. Physiological and polar actions demonstrated before the discovery of galvanism. John Wesley and the static machine. His experience in the treatment of several thousand cases. Wesley's list of diseased conditions successfully treated in his three dispensaries. Franklin's treatment of a young lady with fits. His unsuccessful methods. Letter from Franklin on the effects of electricity in paralytic cases, 1757. Letter from Franklin describing a Leyden-jar shock given himself, ......... pages 447-456 CHAPTER IL General Remarks Relating to Medical Electricity by T. Cavallo, F.R.S., 1777. Accounts of the great interest everywhere manifested in this agent. Study of re- ported effects. Conservative estimate of its value after forty years of clinical experience. Skill in operation of apparatus necessary to successful treatment. Why electricity often cures obstinate diseases which have not yielded to other treatment. General rules for practice. Regulation of the dose. Therapeu- tic effects of static electricity upon functional and nervous diseases. Hints for the administration of the static breeze and sparks in 1777. The electri- fication of children. The relative efficiency of large and small machines ju- diously discussed. The largest static machine ever made (1790). Rules for ascertaining the correct dose in static treatment, . . . pages 457-463 CHAPTER III. Clinical Cases Treated by Static Electricity, 1776-77 and 1795. Inflammation in both eyes treated with the static breeze. Erysipelas treated with the static breeze and mild spark. Lachrymal fistula treated with very mild sparks. Violent sore throat relieved by two applications of mild sparks to the throat. Amenorrhoea lasting seven months relieved by sparks through the pelvis. Ulcers of the lower extremities healed by static applications. Static sparks regarded as a specific for arrested menstruation. Letter report- ing a cure of muscular contraction by static sparks (1777). Chorea in a young girl successfully treated in July, 177S. Static electricity regarded as a valua- able antispasmodic. A case of paralysis treated with bad success by too strong shocks. Muscular rigidity relieved by static electricity, pages 464-473