Practical electricity in medicine and surgery / By G. A. Liebig ... and George H. Rohé ... Profusely illustrated.

  • Liebig, Gustav A. (Gustav Adolph), 1861-1897.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Practical electricity in medicine and surgery / By G. A. Liebig ... and George H. Rohé ... Profusely illustrated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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    ECT, PREFACE. It has been the endeavor of the authors to set forth, in the following pages, in a concise way, the fundamental prin- ciples which are involved in the application of electricity to medical and surgical practice. The authors are well aware that the study of electricity presents many difficulties, and that to arrive at a practical knowledge of the subject (which is, without question, the knowledge demanded by the physician) whatever reading is undertaken should be supplemented by as much work as pos- sible in the laboratory. The time required for an apprentice- ship of this kind is, however, greater than the inclination, and, indeed, the duties, of the medical practitioner will permit. A treatise on medical electricity, therefore, to be of any value to the physician or the medical student, should be eminently prac- tical, and should deal with such matters only as have a direct bearing upon the requirements of the practitioner. The book should be free from unnecessary technicalities, and only so much attention should be devoted to theory as is demanded in the ex- planation of such phenomena as are presented in the medical and surgical uses of electricity. The subject of electro-static machines, of batteries (pri- mary and secondary), of galvanometers, of various forms of resistance-coils (rheostats), etc., should be treated at length; while, on the theoretical side, the same thing should be done in