The medical and surgical uses of electricity. (1896) (14570928269)

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Title: The medical and surgical uses of electricity.

Year: 1896 (1890s)

Authors: Rockwell, A. D. (Alphonso David), 1840-1925

Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Electrosurgery Diagnosis, Radioscopic Electrosurgery Electric Stimulation Therapy

Publisher: New York : William Wood and Company

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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by means of an Esmarch bandage, or by a rubber ring, especially forthe fingers, after the fashion of an umbrella ring, and then treating bycataphoresis. * Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, vol. v., 1892.•f- Newf York Med. Journal, April 25th, 1892. 5 go ELECTRO-SURGERY. By means of the anaemic method of cataphoresis, the medicine em-ployed, or some electrolytic modification of it, comes in direct contactwith the affected tissue, and remains for a considerable time in relation with it. McGuire * reports good results in the use of iodine by cataphoresis inthe treatment of ordinary goitre. The idea of cocaine cataphoresis as a diagnostic method was sug-gested by Dr. M. A. Starr, for, while it relieves neuralgias of peripheralorigin, it has no effect whatever on pains which owe their origin tolesions far back of the point to which the electrode is applied, as indisease of the Gasserian ganglion, or the idiopathic neuralgias of central origin. * Therapeutic Gazette, August, 1892.

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RADIOGRAPH SHOWING BULLET EMBEDDED IN THE RADIUS. NEGATIVE BY PROF. A. W. GOODSPEED. (By courtesy of the Publisher, W. B. Harison, New York.) CHAPTER VIII. ROENTGEN PHOTOGRAPHY* IN DIAGNOSIS. Photographic diagnosis by means of the radiant energy of a high-tension electric current operating through a high vacuum tube engagesthe interest of the world at the moment that this book completes itspreparation for the press. Another of the marvels of electricity hasbeen unfolded by Prof. William Conrad Roentgen, of the Physical Insti-tute of the University of Wiirtzburg. The discovery was accidental, likeDaguerres. Professor Roentgen, long interested in the phenomena ofcathode rays, proposed to supplement the researches of Hertz and Lenardby studies of his own. These were begun in the latter part of October,1895. On the 8th of November he discovered something new. Whileworking with an induction current of high tension, and a Crookes tubewhich fortunately possessed an extremely high vacuum and

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