Medical use of electricity : with special reference to general electrization as a tonic in neuralgia, rheumatism, dyspepsia, chorea, paralysis, and other affections associated with general debility. With illustrative cases.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Medical use of electricity : with special reference to general electrization as a tonic in neuralgia, rheumatism, dyspepsia, chorea, paralysis, and other affections associated with general debility. With illustrative cases. 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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    But instead of localized, we now used general, elec- trization, according to the method herein described. The results were far beyond our anticipations. We found that many of the patients thus treated were not only relieved of their local symptoms, but were also improved very markedly in their general condition. We found that old cases of indigestion, with, the usual accompanying symptoms, and a variety of disorders associated with general debility, were very appreciably relieved, and in some instances entirely or approxi- mately cured by persistent treatment. What is here written is simply the story of our expe- rience with general electrization, and is manifestly very different in scope and arrangement from what it would have been if it had been intended to prepare a guide to electro-therapeutics. The articles were originally pub- lished in the Medical Record, and the unexpected attention they received from the profession, and from other journals at home and abroad, suggested the idea of presenting them in this form. If this treatise shall have the effect of inducing any one in the profession to enter on the scientific study of general electrization with anything of the zeal that localized electrization is now pursued abroad, its pur- pose will have been fully secured. A. D. Rockwell, M. D., Geo. M. Beard, M. D. Nbw York, 914 Broadway.