Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy - with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray (1912) (14570441008)
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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
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Fig. 23.—Arrangement for the static spray. Patient positive. the spray, the spark or current is always negative. It leaves thepatient M for the electrode when the patient is negative and leavesthe electrode for the patient when the patient is positive. The elec-
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Fig. 24.—Arrangement for the indirect static spark. Patient negative. trode is grounded, as in static sprays. One can not speak of a neg-ative and positive spark any more than a negative and positivebreeze. The size and strength of the spark is determined by the 56 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY speed of the machine and the size of the ball on the end of the elec-trode. This is an active, energetic current, and is used to great ad-vantage in the treatment of some of the most intractable cases ofrheumatism, etc. This modality requires considerable skill in orderto produce the best results. The electrode should be handled quicklyand regularly, allowing only a single spark to pass between the elec-