Electropathy : a new method of treating disease by electricity.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Electropathy : a new method of treating disease by electricity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obliging friend works the machine, the only effect being to cramp and irritate the muscles of the forearm, at the same time to disgust and disappoint the patient and his friends with Electricity as a remedy which they imagine they have applied secundum artem. Magnetization. Magnetization, or the employment of magnets as a remedy, dates from the earliest ages. How or in what way magnets act is as yet unknown. Various theories, all of them erroneous, have been pro- pounded by the vendors of magnetic appliances but none of them have been sanctioned and approved of by scientific authorities. Unlike the electric current, which produces marked physio- logical effects when applied to the various tissues of the body, repeated experiments with the most powerful magnets have produced a negative result; nevertheless, in the light of experience it cannot be doubted that in suitable cases properly con- structed magnetic appliances do exert a beneficial effect. We do not know how they act, but we know they do good, and whatever relieves pain and suffering should not be neglected. In spasmodic, nervous affections,such as EPILEPSY, c horea, cata- lepsy, hysteria, magnetic appliances are found tobe