The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered (1907) (14593299050)

Identifier: electrotherapeut00benn (find matches)
Title: The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bennett, Homer Clark, 1865-1928
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Electricity in medicine Ohm's law X-rays Electricity Electricity X-Rays Electromagnetic Phenomena Electric Stimulation Therapy
Publisher: Lima (Ohio) : Literary Dept. of the National College of Electro-Therapeutics
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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both side views. While these are not claimed to be absolutely accurate,they are approximately so, and are a reasonably reliable guide for us tofollow, and a valuable means of diagnosis and assistance in our electro-therapeutic treatment. THK KIvECTRO-THERAPEUTIC GUIDE 219
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The different shaded areas, zones or belts, shown in the accompanyingfigures (after Gowers) indicate both the peripheral location of the anaesthe-sia, or hypheraesthesia of the skin, and also the location of that part of thespine which is most probably affected, and indicating the point at which 220 THE ELKCTRO-THERAPKUTIC GUIDE we should apply our treatment for the relief of and cure of the pain, orparalysis, be it either motor or sensory. Usually the cause of motor orsensory paralysis is at the point in the spine denoted by the figures andletters, while the girdle pain or area of hyperaesthesia is due to irritation ofthe spine just above the lesion. In these figures the letters C, D, ly and Srefer to the cervical, dorsal, lumbar, and sacral vertebra, from whence issuethe corresponding pairs of spinal nerves, which are distributed to the va-rious shaded areas on the human maps. For instance I was called on to treat a case of alleged rheumatismof the feet, which was characterized by p