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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    course of a nerve. Certain forms have received particular names. SCIATICA, or pain in the course of the sciatic nerve ; INTERCOSTAL NEURALGIA, or pain along the intercostal nerves ; TIC DOULO- REUX, or neuralgia of the facial nerve. Sciatica.—This is one of the commonest and most troublesome forms of neuralgia. It is very frequently associated with a gouty or rheumatic tendency; the pain is usually severe, extending from the middle of the buttock, down the back of the thigh and leg, sometimes into the foot. A great number of favourable reports have been received from those suffering who have given electropathy a trial. Appliances should be selected with an eye to their constitutional as well as local effect. An Electropathic Belt and Spine Band of good power is required, or the use of the Battery Belt, and the constant wearing of an appliance covering the thigh. Ttc Donloreux, or Facial Neuralgia, occurs under two lorms—slight attacks, that are caused very frequently by decayed teeth, exposure to cold, indigestion or malaria ; and a far more severe form, that to which the name of Epileptiform Neuralgia has been given, which is probably due to some diseased condition of the brain at or about the origin of the fifth pair of nerves. In treating the