How to use a galvanic battery in medicine and surgery : A discourse delivered before the Hunterian Society / By Herbert Tibbits.

  • Tibbits, Herbert, 1838-1907.
Date:
1879
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Credit: How to use a galvanic battery in medicine and surgery : A discourse delivered before the Hunterian Society / By Herbert Tibbits. 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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    getting a measure of discredit, which in strict Preiimi- ? . nary Re- justice should have attached only to the operator, marks. In the present Lecture I shall consider instru- ments, their construction and management, a dry subject, but an essential one, the first requisite of a good workman being complete familiarity with his tools, lacking which he will be the vic- tim of constantly recurring annoyances and diffi- culties ; for although the present position of electro- therapeutics is largely due to improved methods of administration, these methods would be im- possible with faulty instruments, while, on the other hand, the most perfect instruments require a certain amount of skill and care in their manage- ment, and some acquaintance with at least the mechanical details of their construction ; and with- out this rudimentary knowledge it is also impos- sible to usefully compare one instrument with an- other. My second Lecture will be devoted to the diffe- rent methods of applying electricity, and my third and last to its uses in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease. We make use of three varieties of electricity in 5^*^ medicine. trioity. Firstly, of static or friction electricity, the elec- tricity of glass and amber, appropriately called, from its early investigator, Franklinism. Secondly, of the electricity of chemical action,