Electro-therapeutics of neurasthenia / by W.F. Robinson.

  • Robinson W. F.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Electro-therapeutics of neurasthenia / by W.F. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    merit of merely local affections cannot be relied upon here. In the author’s opinion, the rule, Never to apply the static spark to the head, is one of the most import- ant principles of treatment. The spark to the spine may be given for one minute, and followed by the charge for five minutes, making six minutes for the whole treatment. This may be kept up for ten days. At, the end of this time, if the patient seems to be “settling back ” —that is, getting used to the treatment so that it is not having its full stimulant effect—then the carbon electrode may be used in the same way for ten days more. This brings up the treatment to the end of the first month, when the intermission should occur. In the treatment of this affection, chronic and long-lasting as it is, it will be found both a help and a convenience to keep track of the cases by periods of one month each. Thus, it is well to stop the treat- ment on the same day of the month as it was begun, and on this day the patient’s condition should be care- fully noted and compared with what it was when he or she first came under your care a month ago. A clear idea is thus obtained of the progress, if any, which has been made; and if similar cases have been treated in the past, the progress of the case in hand should be compared with them. If any one case has made less progress than the