How to Use a Galvanic Battery in Medicine and Surgery: A Discourse Delivered Before the Hunterian Society, Third Edition — John Shaqi
How to Use a Galvanic Battery in Medicine and Surgery: A Discourse Delivered Before the Hunterian Society, Third EditionTibbits, Herbert
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How to Use a Galvanic Battery in Medicine and Surgery: A Discourse Delivered Before the Hunterian Society, Third Edition
Tibbits, Herbert
Electrotherapeutics
The bladder is most readily electrized by the introduction into the
rectum of the rectal rheophore, and into the bladder--previously
emptied--of a curved metallic sound insulated by an elastic catheter
to within an inch of its vesical extremity. This sound must be brought
into contact successively with all points of the neck of the bladder.
The uterus by the introduction of the rectal rheophore, connected
with one pole, to the os uteri, and by the application of two sponges
from the other pole, one to the abdominal parietes, the other to the
lumbar region. The larynx, externally by one sponge to the nape of the
neck, and the second to the exterior of the larynx; or, internally, a
sponge to the neck as before, and the introduction by the aid of the
laryngoscope of a small bit of sponge at the end of a curved metallic
stem, insulated by a gum-elastic catheter, the current not being
allowed to pass until it is seen by the laryngeal mirror that the
sponge is in the desired position. The male genital organs by moist
rheophores to the scrotum over the testicle; but if it be desired to
excite the vesiculæ seminales, the bowel is first emptied, the rectal
rheophore is then introduced and so directed that its olive-shaped
termination may be brought into relation with the vesiculæ. For this
purpose it is sufficient to move the rheophore from right to left and
_vice versá_. A powerful current will penetrate the intestine and reach
the vesiculæ, exciting them energetically. The circuit is completed by
a second rheophore placed on an unsensitive part of the body.
[SN: Electrization of the Central Organs.]
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