A Practical treatise on the medical and surgical uses of electricityWood, 1875 - 794 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 598 - March, after six weeks' treatment, Dr Barker found on examination that the uterus had increased in length one quarter of an inch. The patient after an interval was again treated, but without any further local improvement. The modification of nutrition caused by electricity may have two opposite effects ; it may cause increase or it may cause diminution in the size of a part or organ. Where the part is abnormally large it causes it to grow smaller; where it is abnormally small or atrophied, as in...
Page 553 - By transmitting its influence from the nape of the neck to the pit of the stomach, he gave decided relief in every one of twenty-two cases, of which four were in private practice, and eighteen in the Worcester InBrmary. The power employed varied from ten to twentyfive pairs.
Page x - PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE object of this work is to show how the States of Europe have gained the form and character which they possess at the present moment.
Page 705 - The method of operating on a small tumor is to first insert the needle connected with the positive needle underneath the tumor and near the border. A similar needle connected with the negative pole is inserted also underneath the tumor, and, if possible, at some distance below the base of the growth, so that the point emerges on the opposite side. The current is now gradually let on, and the strength increased until the electrolysis becomes active, as will be indicated by the yellowish form that...
Page 665 - ... circular manner toward and over the precordial region. The electrodes should be spongecovered and well moistened. The results arrived at from my own practice and experiments are the following: 1. That it is useless to expect good results if five minutes have elapsed since life appeared extinct. 2. That the current should be applied faithfully and steadily, one pole being placed on the ensiform cartilage, the other on the base of the skull or over the tracks of the great nerves of the neck. 3....
Page 725 - ... Dr. DF Reynolds consulted us in regard to the case of a little child aged eight months, who was afflicted by an erectile tumor in the right cheek. It appeared shortly after birth, and had gradually enlarged until the date mentioned, when it measured one and a-half inches in width and from one half to three-quarters of an inch in depth. Upon firm pressure the enlargement would almost entirely disappear. The patient having been placed under the influence of chloroform, we operated at Bellevue Hospital...
Page 661 - Over the past few years there has been a revival of interest in the use of idobe as a building material.
Page 591 - ... heads, that the queen might see it was uninjured, and then she was led away fainting, amidst cries and tears, mingled with groans and execrations upon the cowardly assassin. It is well known that when she recovered from her swoon, she exclaimed anxiously, ' Let him not be hurt on my account ; ' and it was with the greatest difficulty that she could be persuaded to consent to his execution. " That day was held like a jubilee, and it was soon discovered that the regicide had no accomplices, but...
Page 619 - ... stages, where the desire is capricious and the power of erection pretty well destroyed, it is evident that there must be a degree of paralysis at the root of the disorder, dependent on structural changes in the nervecentres, or else this impaired power or tone in the muscles and erectile tissue may be of a purely local character. In the latter case, the indications are clearly the same as in other forms of local paralysis, and by faradization of the ischio-cavernosus and bulbo-cavernosus muscles...
Page ii - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL USES OF ELECTRICITY; including Localized and General Faradization ; Localized and Central Galvanization ; Electrolysis and Galvano-Cautery.