The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered (1907) (14799767453)

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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, or part, when placed in thisfield of potent influence, will be greatly aided in its endeavor to throw offthe disease, and resume the normal state of equilibrium. Of course we 12 178 THE ElvECTRO-THKRAPEUTIC GUIDE must all accept the axiom, that nature is always trying to regain or keep its balance. The first invention of Bachelet along the line of magnetic waves, or linesof force, generators, was a clumsy six hundred pound affair, but the perfect-ed instrument weighs but a few pounds, and is easily handled. It consists of a flat box about ten inches square, and two inches thick,containing several electro-magnets with a switch, to select the one desired,so that the effect may be varied from weak, through the medium, to thestrong, according to the nature of the case to be treated, and the results desired. For convenience in giving prolonged applications, they are arrangedin pairs, and the patient or part is placed between them, they being heldby supports resting on a substantial base.
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The accompanying cutjshows the two magnetic wave generators, con-nected to the source of electrification, and so placed and supported, that thechair, in which the patient sits, is directly within the,most active field of THE EI.ECTRO-THERAPBUTIC GUIDE 179 influence, as is indicated by the straight lines of force, while the weakerfield is represented by the curved lines of force. There is no appreciablesensation experienced by the person in the field, but that there is an influ-ence being exerted, is demonstrated clinically by the cessation of the pain,and the prompt relief given. It may be more clearly demonstrated by meansof a third one, held in the hand of the operator, to which is attached a mic-rophone, similar to a telephone receiver, which the operator holds to hisear. This way the vibrations of the generators may be heard. In a recenttest made in the laboratory of the National College of Electro-Therapeutics,the waves were distinctly heard at a distance of six feet in every dir