The treatment of disease by electric currents : a hand-book of plain instructions for the general practitioner / by S.H. Monell.

  • Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), -1918.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The treatment of disease by electric currents : a hand-book of plain instructions for the general practitioner / by S.H. Monell. 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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    Adjust an 800 yard No. 32 secondary coil current up to com- fortable tolerance. Continue for about fifteen minutes and reduce to zero. Repeat three or four times a week. Static frictional sparks over the abdomen and spine, together with general electrification, will be found useful to aid appro- priate medical and dietetic measures. Cholera Morbus.—A patient suffering from this acute affection may often be given remarkable relief in one of two ways. I have personally employed static sparks on the abdo- men with almost instant relief to the colic in the few cases which have occurred in my ofifice practice. These patients are more usually seen at home, and when it is considered worth while to do so an induction coil apparatus can be employed. Moisten a felt or sponge covered, flat electrode, connect it Figs. 336. Fine felt or sponge covered electrodes—assorted sizes with soft rubber insulating backs. with the positive pole, and place it under the dorsal region. Place a similar negative electrode over the abdomen, and increase the rapidly interrupted secondary coil current from zero until it produces a sedative-tonic effect. Continue the application for about twenty minutes. Electricity will rarely be used in this affection. Cholera Infantum.—I have seen tonicity and normal action of the bowels restored in several cases of infantile diarrhoea by tJie simple action of positive static electrification with the 44