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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    ordinary treatment is generally very unsatisfactorym The Electropathic Belt is perhaps more successful in rapidly curing Lumbago than any other morbid condition. The Association have received an extra- ordinary number of good reports concerning the efficacy of their Belt. Its use not only almost at once relieves the pain, but prevents the recurrence of the attack. A broad Belt of good power, cover- ing the lumbar region, should be worn continuous^ and severe cases will often find it wise to use the Battery Belt for an hour or two morning and even- ing in addition. Pleurodynia.—If the pain is severe, the sufferers are apt to imagine that they have pleurisy (in- flammation of the membrane covering the lungs),but this is not the case ; the pain is increased when a long breath is taken, on account of the greater action of the respiratory muscles. The Electropathic Chest Appliance will ease the pain, or a Galvanic Pad may be worn. Some cases are cured after all other methods of treatment have failed by the properly directed application of the galvanic or Faradic current, whichever is indicated, from a battery. The Electropathic Appliances act beneficially on rheumatism by the specific power that the constant current possesses in a remarkable degree of easing