Currents of high potential of high and other frequencies / by William Benham Snow.

  • Snow, William Benham, 1860-
Date:
1905
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Credit: Currents of high potential of high and other frequencies / by William Benham Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION PAGES Consideration of the Relative Frequency 1-5 CHAPTER II THE STATIC WAVE-CUIiRENT, PRINCIPLES OF ACTION AND THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS Arrangement for Administering- the Wave-current, De- scription of Characteristics, Physiological Effects upon Metabolism, Muscular Contraction Vibration, and Con- traction of Cell Protoplasm; The Action of u. Current of One Polarity Explained; Constitutional Effects upon Ar- terial Tension, the Nervous System, Heat Production, and the Secretions; Indications for Its Employment, in Conges- tion and Local Hyperemia, Acute Local Congestion, Deep- seated Conditions, and Syphilitic Processes; Relief of Pain, Muscular Spasms or Contractions. In Conditions of Nervous Irritability. For Errors of General Metabolism. For Activity of Special Functions. In Conditions of Ner- vous Inertia, 6-24 CHAPTER III THE STATIC INDUCED CURRENT History and Arrangement; Its Use during Periods of Hu- midity; Adjustment of Leyden Jars to Regulate Intensi- ties, etc., 25-32 CHAPTER IV DISRUPTIVE DISCHARGES, SPARKS Sparks, Indirect Sparks, the Resonator Spark, Therapeutic Indications, Various Apparatus Used for the Production of the Resonator Sparks, 33-40