High frequency currents : their production, physical properties, physiological effects, and therapeutical uses / by H. Evelyn Crook.

  • Crook, Herbert Evelyn.
Date:
1909
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Credit: High frequency currents : their production, physical properties, physiological effects, and therapeutical uses / by H. Evelyn Crook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TO THE FIRST EDITION. In submitting this book to the Enghsh-speaking members of the medical profession, the author hopes that it may in some way help to bring before the notice of medical men the undoubted therapeutical value of high frequency currents in certain pathological conditions. On the Continent, and in the United States of America, the efficacy of the currents is well known, and much good work has been accomplished by their means; but in England, it would appear, they have not met with the recognition they deserve, possibly because they unfortu- nately have, in many instances, fallen into the hands of irresponsible, unqualified persons. It cannot be too strongly insisted upon that the pre- scribing and administration of high frequency currents should be placed entirely in the hands of properly qualified medical practitioners, and not entrusted to others who may be devoid of any physiological or patho- logical knowledge. It stands to reason that a powerful agent, having far-reaching physiological effects, requires as much skill and discretion in its use as the exhibition of any drug in the Pharmacopoeia. It remains for the author to express a sense of deep gratitude to Mr. Clarence A, Wright, who has most