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قراءة كتاب The Electric Bath
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THE
ELECTRIC BATH
ITS MEDICAL USES, EFFECTS
AND APPLIANCE
BY
MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY AND OF THE MEDICAL
JOURNAL ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; ONE OF THE
PHYSICIANS TO THE NEW YORK LYING-IN ASYLUM, ETC.
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1877
Copyright,
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS,
1876.
PREFACE.
In No 216 of “The Medical Record” (Dec. 15th, 1874) was published an article written by me, entitled “On some of the Uses of Galvanic and Faradic Baths.”
The interest manifested in the subject, as evidenced by numerous letters of inquiry since received from physicians in almost all parts of the United States, and some in Europe, has induced me to write the present treatise, in which I have endeavored to present to the profession, as far as lies in my power, all that is necessary to a full comprehension of the electro-balneological treatment.
When it is considered that in the employment of electric baths I have been to a great extent groping in the dark, that I have been deprived of the advantage of having the experience of others to guide me, it will not appear surprising that I should have met with many disappointments. My failures have been illustrative of the fact that the electric bath is no more a panacea for all ills than any other remedial agent. Applicable as it is to a great variety of pathological conditions, it meets with many where it is destined to have negative or at best imperfect results. Far from discouraging me, however, failures have served to inspire me with fresh ardor to seek for light, and to persevere in my efforts to establish on the basis of statistical truth, the therapeutic merits of the agent which I employed.
In view of the imperfectness of the results thus far obtained, I should consider the present work premature, did I not find a justification for it in my desire to induce other and abler observers to investigate the subject, and place it on whatever footing it may merit.
To say that I am fully conscious of the shortcomings of my work, would be but feebly to express my convictions in this respect. I beg the reader however to consider that the subject is not a hackneyed one, that mine has not been the work of the compiler who remodels the brain-work of others. It may be crude and rough, it may lack the gloss and polish that is the result of much handling, but I have at least the consciousness that it has the merits of originality and candor.
New York.
160 Second Avenue. November, 1876.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. The Apparatus. |
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| a)—The tub. b)—The electrodes and connections. c)—The water. d)—Chemicals. e)—The batteries. | 7 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Mode of Administration | 19 |
| CHAPTER III. Physiological Effects. |
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| Characteristic differences between the electric bath and other methods of electrization—Effects on sleep; on general sensation; on the change of matter; on the pulse and temperature; as a stimulant and tonic; on general nutrition; on the digestive apparatus; on the sexual apparatus—Sedative influence—Affects cranial nerves—Cutaneous sensation—Its freedom from pain—Muscular contractions—Effects on the mind | 31 |
| CHAPTER IV. General Therapeutic Effects and Uses. |
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| The electric bath as a diagnostic; as an equalizer of the circulation; as a general counter-irritant; as a general invigorant and tonic—Its hypnotic and sedative influence—Its improvement of nutrition—As a prophylactic | 52 |
| CHAPTER V. Special Therapeutics and Clinical Record. |
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| General directions—Special diseases—Acute rheumatism—Subacute rheumatism—Chronic rheumatism—Cases of rheumatism—Chorea, with cases—Hysterical affections, with cases—Neurasthenia, with cases—Agrypnia, with cases—Anæmia, with case—Paralyses and Pareses, with cases—Neuralgiæ, with cases—Articular effusions, with case—Impotency, with cases—Constipation, with cases—Hydrargyrosis, with case—Locomotor ataxia, with case—Cachexia, with case—Dyspepsia—Melancholia, with case—Inequalities of the circulation—Affections of the Sympathetic, with case—Miscellaneous conditions—Concluding remarks | 61 |
CHAPTER I.
THE APPARATUS.
To a proper comprehension of the succeeding chapters, it is necessary first of all to be familiar with the apparatus employed in carrying out electro-balneological treatment, and I therefore proceed to give a description of this.[1] It may