The medical and surgical uses of electricity - including the X-ray, Finsen light, vibratory therapeutics, and high-frequency currents (1903) (14571595009)

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Title: The medical and surgical uses of electricity : including the X-ray, Finsen light, vibratory therapeutics, and high-frequency currents
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rockwell, A. D. (Alphonso David), 1840-1925
Subjects: Electricity in medicine Radiotherapy Electric Stimulation Therapy Radiotherapy
Publisher: New York : E. B. Treat & company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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may bethus produced. This method of electrization is adopted for those localities where, onaccount of the natural sensitiveness or from the nature of the disease, * Further Study of Electro-Ansesthesia, etc. Transactions American Electro-Therapeutic Association, September, 1893, MISCELLANEOUS SURGICAL DISEASES. 587 ordinary electrodes, by their mechanic irritation, cause unbearable pain,,or where, for anatomical reasons, they cannot be applied. For supplying a continuous stream of water we use an ordinary stiffrubber bag, which is filled with water in the usual way, by first compress-ing the sides and exhausting the aii Connected with this bag we usesilver tubes of various shapes and sizes, provided with small thumb-screwsfor making the connection with the battery, and either insulated or non-insulated, according to the special purpose at hand. The various douches that are used for the cavities of the body may beutilized for the same purpose, provided the leather tubes are lined with
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Pig. 200.—Electrode for Vaginal Hydro-Electric Applications (Cleaves.) spirals of wire, to keep up the connection of the current, or the tubes arecomposed of metal and insulated. On this principle, and in order to meet the same therapeutic indica-tions for which ordinary electrization is employed, applications may bemade to the external auditory canal, and, in many cases of rupture orulceration of the membrana tympani, to the middle ear, by a straight,,insulated tube, or by the ear douche; to the conjunctiva by a single tubeor by the ear douche; to the nasal passages by the nasal douche or metal-lic posterior nasal syringe; to the pharynx and naso-pharyngeal space bya properly curved tube; to the stomach by the stomach douche, such ashas been used by Ploss, of Leipsic, or by the stomach pump; to the blad-der by the bladder douche; to the vagina and os by the vaginal douche;and to the cavity of the uterus by the uterine douche; to the cavities ofopened abscesses, to stumps that are s