A guide to the correct administration of medical galvanism : being a companion to the improved electro-galvanic machines, manufactured and sold by Horne, Thornthwaite, and Wood, (successors to E. Palmer,) containing full and simple directions with medical treatment necessary in those diseases to which this powerful agent is applicable / by J.H. Horne.

  • Horne, James Herbert, -1895?
Date:
[1847?]
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Credit: A guide to the correct administration of medical galvanism : being a companion to the improved electro-galvanic machines, manufactured and sold by Horne, Thornthwaite, and Wood, (successors to E. Palmer,) containing full and simple directions with medical treatment necessary in those diseases to which this powerful agent is applicable / by J.H. Horne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    employed, and the lamentable ignorance too generally of elec- tricians, hi physic, and of the complicated workings of the beautiful machinery of 7na)). For in some diseases it will be found necessary, in order to obtain the vast benefits that the electric fluid is capable of giving, that the system should be put under some little medical treatment, before it can possibly be made either to work well or produce the desired result! So it will be found, on the other hand, if the electro-galvanic fluid be judiciously administered, it will be capable of working such alteration in the secretions of the animal economy, and restoring to organs activity, and vigour, as to enable the various operations of remedies, when properly assisted by the electro-galvanic fluid, to establish satisfactorily the proper- ties that experience has long assigned to them, whether of the class of tonics, sudorifics, aperients, dcobstruents, &c., and to confer the benefits which they may have totally failed to effect before. Therefore the Author and Publishers will deem no further apology necessary for not entering into the scientific division of the subject, but confine themselves strictly to the object that the public have demanded—viz.: to be put in possession of that information that will lead them to the proper use of the electro-galvanic machine, and enable them to draw a correct conclusion whether their own individual case properly falls under the curative powers of this agent or not. A second edition of the Guide having been called for, the letter-press has been revised and corrected with greater care than time would permit being bestowed on the first edition ; Still many inaccuracies and imperfections, the Author feels will remain, through the interruptions that he must of neces- sity have met with, from the time that he could most conve- niently devote to writing it, being snatched, when engaged in the most difficult, and certainly by far the most neglected branch of the medical profession, viz.—the treatment of skin diseases. It would seem, ivom numerous commiinications forwarded to the author, that not always has the same favourable result followed the operations of other persons, as exi)erienced in his own practice, and this he attributes to two principal causes. 1. The operators evidently have not bestowed sufficient length of time daily at each sitting, and this has been discon- tinued too soon, especially in cases of deafness. 2. And from the neglect of a preparatory operation on the system in general before applying the current to the part more immediately affected.