The 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 / by Geo. M. Beard, and A.D. Rockwell.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The 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 / by Geo. M. Beard, and A.D. Rockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    disheartened, have illogically concluded that their ex- pectations were not well grounded. EXPERIENCE OF CHARLATANS. Again, in our country at least, the practical applica- tion of this agent has fallen into the hands of uneducated and unscrupulous practitioners, who know little of the human system, or of the science of medicine, and still less of the agent they employ. Empirics and charlatans, versed in no art except that of robbing the unfortunate, have thus far had the field mostly to themselves, and have improved their advantage by filHng their own pockets without adding an iota to the world's stock of experience. Whatever valuable truths they may have stumbled upon by their abundant observations are known only to themselves, and are regarded by them merely as tricks of a trade, and in the very nature of things must die with them. Electricity appears to be travelling slowly in the footsteps of all our permanent specialties. Twenty years ago, the treatment of the diseases of women was almost exclusively in the hands of ignorant and unprincipled outsiders; gynecology is now one of the most honored and useful departments of science. It is but fifteen years since ocuhsts were linked with contempt in the speech of all who desired to be regarded as authority in medical etiquette ; to call oneself a speciahst for the eye was a plea of guilty to the grossest ignorance and fraud.