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
“This work fills up a hiatus in the literature of medical electricity.
It purposes to teach (to use the words of the preface) ‘the busy
practitioner not only when to use electricity, but in explicit and full
detail how;’ and in ‘moderate bulk to contain only what it is essential
to master.’ Dr. Tibbits’ object has been to give the results of the
best work, and to this end he has availed himself freely of the large
experience of the Electrical Room of the National Hospital for the
Paralysed and Epileptic.
“The work is what it professes to be, and is a handbook in the best
sense of the work. The book, indeed, answers thoroughly to the author’s
description: that he has ‘throughout endeavoured to keep constantly in
view the practitioner rather than the theorist,’ especially in points
of detail which are of importance in order to secure the successful
application of electricity, and to insure (a not insignificant matter
in this respect) the comfort of the patient.”--_The Lancet._
“There is not a word of exaggeration, or of fanciful hypothesis in the
book, and, above all, there is not the least suggestion that there
is after all a mystery behind, and that the reader would do well to
come to an expert for advice. On the contrary, everything is made so
clear that any practitioner, whether he previously knew anything of
electricity or not, may from this book at once begin the practical
use of it, and if there are any lingering doubts in the minds of some
ultra-conservative persons as to the practical value of electrical
treatment, this book should dispel them.... the busiest practitioner
can, without difficulty, learn how to effect a large amount of
good which he was previously quite unable even to attempt.”--_The
Practitioner._
“As Medical Superintendent of the National Hospital for the Paralysed
and Epileptic, as well as through private practice. Dr. Tibbits has
had ample opportunities of studying the application of electricity to
medicine, and in the volume under notice, which aims principally at
giving full and explicit details within convenient limits, _how to
use electricity_, we are bound to say this object is fairly carried
out.”--_The Dublin Journal of Medical Science._
“The exact value of electricity as a therapeutic agent is imperfectly
understood. That it is of great value in some cases as a means of
improving nutrition, relieving pain, and exercising disused muscles,
is undoubted, but still its exact value in all cases remains to be
settled, and in Dr. Tibbits’ book we find a guide which will, at all
events, help us to a solution of some of our difficulties.--_The
Medical Times and Gazette._
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