How to Use a Galvanic Battery in Medicine and Surgery / A Discourse Delivered Before the Hunterian Society, Third Edition

Chapter 2: HOW TO USE A GALVANIC BATTERY IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY

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A practical medical guide outlines the construction and use of static, galvanic, and faradic electrical apparatus, explains methods for delivering general and localized electrization to skin, muscles, and internal organs, and details diagnostic tests of nerve and muscle irritability; it summarizes instruments, accessories, dosing with a galvanometer, precautions, and applications in conditions such as neuralgia, various paralyses, impotence, rheumatic and fatigue disorders, and describes electrolysis and electrotonus, aiming to advise practitioners on when and how to employ a galvanic battery safely and effectively.

HOW TO USE A
GALVANIC BATTERY IN MEDICINE
AND SURGERY

A Discourse
DELIVERED BEFORE THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.

BY
HERBERT TIBBITS, M.D.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE
NEW YORK SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGY AND ELECTROLOGY; LATE HONORARY MEDICAL
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND
EPILEPTIC, OUEEN’S SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY, AND OF THE MEDICAL
SOCIETY OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE CLINICAL,
OPHTHALMOLOGICAL, HARVEIAN AND PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETIES; FOUNDER OF, AND SENIOR
PHYSICIAN TO, THE WEST END HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM;
AND MEDICAL OFFICER FOR ELECTRICAL TREATMENT TO THE HOSPITAL
FOR SICK CHILDREN, GREAT ORMONDE STREET, ETC. ETC.

THIRD EDITION

REVISED, AND INCORPORATING
THREE LECTURES UPON ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS
DELIVERED BY THE AUTHOR AT THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL

LONDON:
J. & A. CHURCHILL,
11 NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1886.