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
DIAGNOSIS WHEN IRRITABILITY IS NORMAL.
diminished.
increased.
diminished to Faradism and increased to Voltaism.
of Peripheral from Central Disease.
of commencing Paraplegia from Locomotor Ataxy.
of Real from Feigned Disease.
ELECTRICITY AS PROOF POSITIVE OF DEATH.
B.--_Electricity in Treatment._
LIMITATION OF ELECTRICITY AS A REMEDY.
FRANKLINIZATION.
(_a_) in Facial Neuralgia.
(_b_) in Sciatica.
(_c_) in Facial Spasm.
(_d_) in Emotional Aphonia.
(_e_) in Hysterical Hyperæsthesia.
(_f_) in Tremor.
NOTE UPON RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE
BENEFIT OF FRANKLINIZATION IN DISEASES OF DEBILITY.
VOLTAIZATION.
The “Constant Current.”
Possesses an Influence “_sui generis_.”
ELECTRIZATION in Neuralgia.
in Fatigue Diseases.
in Electrotonus.
its Resolvent Effects.
in Electrolysis.
in Impotence.
in Gout.
in Rheumatic Arthritis.
in Muscular Rheumatism.
in General Debility.
in Atrophic Paralysis.
in Infantile Paralysis.
in Traumatic Paralysis.
in Lead Palsy.
in Facial Paralysis.
in Wasting Palsy.
in Hemiplegia.
ELECTRIZATION as a Direct Application to the Brain.
in Spinal Paraplegia.
in Paraplegic Constipation.
in Incontinence of Urine.
in Hysterical Paralysis.
in Locomotor Ataxy.
in Insanity.
in Diseases of Women.
as an Emmenagogue.
in Inertia Uteri.
in Post-partum Hæmorrhage.
in Uterine Neuralgia.
in Sterility.
in Paralysis of Nerves of Special Sense.
RÉSUMÉ OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS.
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
* * * * *
HOW TO USE A GALVANIC BATTERY IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
LECTURE I. ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTS.
MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,
[SN: Preliminary Remarks.]
When your Council did me the honour to ask me to bring before you
the subject of Electro-therapeutics, I felt that the invitation
was addressed rather to the Hospital to which I am attached than
to myself, seeing that to it belongs the merit of having been for
some years the pioneer and outpost, so to say, in this metropolis
of the scientific and methodical application of electricity to the
alleviation and removal of disease; and that we are indebted to one
of its distinguished physicians for a remarkable investigation into
animal electricity, and the demonstration that much of what we have
been accustomed to attribute to a “vital principle” may, in reality,
be the effect only of electrical charge and discharge[1] (a valuable
contribution to the correlation of the Physical Forces); and to my
predecessor for the discovery of the special influence of voltaic
currents in certain forms of paralysis.[2]
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