Lectures on the clinical uses of electricity : delivered in University College Hospital / by J. Russell Reynolds.

  • Reynolds, J. Russell (John Russell), Sir, 1828-1896.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Lectures on the clinical uses of electricity : delivered in University College Hospital / by J. Russell Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in some forms of disease. I have known it absolutely remove, in a few seconds, a tic that had lasted for days. Pain in the sciatic nerve, many odd and disagreeable sensations, unpleasant flutterings about the heart, depending on weak innervation, and tremor of the limbs, may all be removed by simply charging the patient. 2. Another mode of vising this franklinic elec- tricity is to apply a spark to a particular part. You may have a moveable, insulated brass knob in connexion with a prime conductor, and you direct it to the larynx, or some other part, and let the spark go into the skin. Or you may put the patient on a glass-legged stool, and charge him or her in the way I have descrihed, and take a spark out of the larynx or the limb with your knuckle or with a rounded knob. In some cases of aphonia, where the aphonia depends on a special condition, you may insulate the patient and charge him with electricity -without the slightest benefit; but take a spark out of the larynx, or put a spark in—whether positive or negative it matters not—and that par- ticular condition of aphonia may be cured directly. This I have known to occur when much more pain- ful processes of electrification had been previously tried, and without effect. 3. A third mode of using franklinic electricity is that of sending the shock from a charged Leyden phial through the part that you wish to