A manual of practical medical electricity - the Röntgen rays and Finsen light (1902) (14596995290)

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Title: A manual of practical medical electricity : the Röntgen rays and Finsen light
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, Dawson
Subjects: X-Rays Electrophysiology Electrosurgery Electric Stimulation Therapy Electrotherapeutics X-rays Electrophysiology Electrosurgery
Publisher: New York : William Wood & Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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ttached to the negative pole, and the methodis the same as that for urethral stricture, except that theresults are more rapidly attained, because stronger currents(10-20 m.a.) and more frequent repetitions (every fourdays) can be borne. The current may be kept up fortwenty minutes, and no anaesthetic is required. Dr. R.Newman, whose method_is thejone described, after an 16 242 A Manual of Practical Medical Electricity experience of fourteen cases, has come to the followingconclusions : In the treatment of strictures of the rectum electrolysisis not a panacea. On the contrary, it may be unsuccessful, especially incarcinomatous strictures. Electrolysis will often succeedin those rectal strictures in which all other methods havefailed. A certain proportion of cases can be better cured byelectrolysis, and with less fear of a relapse, than by othermethods. The fibroid strictures due to old inflammations offer thebest chances of success. Haemorrhoids have been treated by the introduction of
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Fig. 122.—Eustachian Catheter. a needle attached to the positive pole ; this coagulatesand dries up their contents. The electrolytic treatmentdoes not offer any particular advantages. The Eustachian Tube. Successful attempts have been made to relieve stricturesof the Eustachian tube by electrolysis. An electrode madeto slide in the ordinary Eustachian catheter. Fig. 122, andattached to the negative pole, is used ; the catheter havingbeen introduced in the ordinary way, the electrode isgently pushed along the Eustachian tube until the obstruc-tion is met with ; the current is then turned gradually on(the pad attached to the positive pole may be placed on thenape of the neck or sternum), and brought up to about3 m.a. Electro-Surgery 243 The patient will not experience any pain, but will heara peculiar bubbling sound. The current should not bemaintained for more than two or three minutes, and theelectrode may, even before this time, have overcome theobstruction. Mr. Cumberbatch and the