Hand-book of electro-therapeutics (1910) (14570362177)

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Title: Hand-book of electro-therapeutics

Year: 1910 (1910s)

Authors: Dugan, William James, 1869-

Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Diagnosis, Radioscopic Electric Stimulation Therapy

Publisher: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 56.—-Victor giant eye magnet. THE BOTTINI OPERATION. The technic here given is that described by Freudenburgand Willy Meyer. The bladder should be washed out andemptied; the posterior urethra should be anesthetized by meansof eucaine or cocaine. A special assistant should be detailed tosee that the flow of water does not cease in the cooling apparatus.We should introduce the instrument with the current turned off.In order to burn a groove, the concavity of the instrument isrotated toward the desired spot; the instrument is then slightlywithdrawn in order that the concave surface can press on the 108 ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS. prostate. The flow of water should now be started in the coolingapparatus, and the current turned on. We should wait forfifteen seconds in order that the blade may heat, then projectthe blade to the right and extend the blade by means of thescrew on the handle. After burning the groove to the properdepth we should increase the current slightly so that the blade

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Fig. 57.—Victor little giant eye magnet. will not adhere; we should return the blade to its sheath andturn off the current. Bottini makes three furrows, a moderatelydeep one toward the rectum, a shallow one toward the pubis,and a deep one into the lateral lobe which is the more enlarged.The whole operation should be completed in about five minutes.The advantages of this operation are that there will be little or ELECTRICITY IN SURGERY. 109 no pain, and usually no hemorrhage; the patient may void hisurine shortly after the operation, and also arise from bed onthe third day. Meyer states that out of 160 cases operated on by theBottini method, 80 were cured, 40 improved, and 14 died. THE REMOVAL OF SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. A very useful method of employing electrolysis is for theremoval of superfluous hairs. A fine irido-platinum needle isattached to the negative pole, and then is passed carefully downalong the hair until the point of the needle reaches the papilla;the positive pole is covere

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