On the application and effect of electricity and galvanism in the treatment of cancerous, nervous, rheumatic, and other affections / By Richard Moore Lawrance.

  • Lawrance, Richard Moore, 1822-
Date:
1853
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Credit: On the application and effect of electricity and galvanism in the treatment of cancerous, nervous, rheumatic, and other affections / By Richard Moore Lawrance. 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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    temporary magnets, increases the brilliancy of the sparks and the intensity of the shocks. The instrument I employ, called by the inventors, the Electro-Galvanic Machine, differs from those of which I have spoken in deriving its electricity from the battery, the current being sent through one coil of thick wire, in order to give it sufficient intensity to overcome the resistance which it ex- periences in passing through the body. Animal Electricity. Certain fishes, as the gyuinotus and the torpedo, possess the property of generating electricity, a