High-frequency currents / by Frederick Finch Strong.

  • Strong, Frederick Finch.
Date:
[1908], ©1908
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    SPECIAL USES FOR CURRENTS OF HIGH-FREQUENCY In the preceding chapters the writer has attempted to describe the methods for the application of High-frequency Currents in the more prominent general and local diseases. Few cases have been cited illustrating the successful use of the different methods in the various types of disease, but in every instance in which the technic for the treatment of a given affection is described, corresponding cures have been affected, either in the writer’s own practice or in the experience of some other recognized authority. | The therapeutic use of High-frequency Currents is based upon physiological effects of such.a fundamental character, and the rules for the use of the different High-frequency Modalities are so broad and simple that a detailed description of the technic of treatment of the general and local symptoms in the course of an ordinary “cold,” (or acute coryza), is in reality a complete guide to the physician in the use of these currents in practically all varieties of local and general disease. The vitalizing and invigorating effects of High-frequency Treatment are necessarily beneficial in all diseased conditions; and special effects, resulting from the various modifications of technic, are secondary to the fundamental action of the High-frequency Oscillations. There are many diseases which have been effectually treated by High-frequency Currents of which no especial mention has been made in the present volume. From a consideration of the technic for the treatment of the typical examples of the different classes of diseases, herein described, the physician may obtain an intelligent idea of the methods which should be adopted in the treatment of any particular disease which has not been mentioned by the author. The use of High-frequency Currents in the various medical “ Specialties,’ is in itself a broad subject for consideration.