Considerations on the efficacy of electricity, in removing female obstructions : to which is now added a description of the manner of applying it / by John Birch, surgeon.

  • Birch, John, 1745?-1815.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Considerations on the efficacy of electricity, in removing female obstructions : to which is now added a description of the manner of applying it / by John Birch, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to With refpect to the practice of Sur- gery, during the laft Summer, un- der the patronage of the late Mr* Elfe> I have treated fome difeafes of the joints fo fuccefsfully in St. Thomas* Hofpital, that an account of them was to have been pub- limed under his infpe&ion, if death had not deprived me of fo valuable a Friend, and the world of fo ju- dicious and excellent a Surgeon. *The prefent medical reputation of Electricity has been acquired by a gradual courfe of experiments, firft upon fuch cafes, as medicine and furgery were infufficient to re- debted for its prefent fuccefs : And I think, 1 may therefore be allowed to date its effects, m regulating the animal ceconomy, from that period.