An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs. With an appendix, on the nature of blood / by Tiberius Cavallo.

  • Cavallo Tiberius, 1749-1809.
Date:
1798
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Credit: An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs. With an appendix, on the nature of blood / by Tiberius Cavallo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    divers difeafes; in which cafes, they had not only prefcribed the ele&rization, but the operation had been performed either by themfelves, or under their infpedtion* Thefe publications gave a new turn to the reputation of medical ele&ricity; and fince that time, the generality of phy- licians and furgeons had not the lead re- gard for the medical application of elec- tricity ; fo that the pra&itioners of it were rather confidered as fanatics and impodors- However, an attentive examination of this fubjedt, after feveral trials, and after overcoming in great meafure the rooted- prejudice amongd phyficians, began to edabli(h anew the reputation of medical ele&ricity ; and (hewed that many appli- cations of eledlricity, published in the above-mentioned accounts, had proved unfuccefsful, becaufe the operation was not managed properly; fo that it had been the abufe, and not the ufe of elec- tricity, that had proved unfuccefsful, and in fome cafes even detrimental; for at that time, ftrong (hocks and drong fparks were generally adminidered, which, a long fer- ries of experiments and obfervations has