Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.
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latter cases of the progressive, wasting pal- sy, or rheumatic palsy, or are they cases partaking of the character of both these ? Where there is this morbid affection of muscles and joints, I find that a stabile strong current led steadily through the neighboring muscles also, sometimes ou this side and then on that, for a whole minute at a time, and that, for five of the fifteen minutes at each seance, has most decidedly beneficial effects on the contigu- ous diseased muscles and fascia, and on that joint that is affected and situated below or beyond the site of such procedure. Then let the current be passed from large and soft electrodes, transversely, or rather ob- liquely through the diseased joint from min- ute to minute, with a recess of only a few seconds between each application. Case. — Mr. C, twenty-five years of age, a lawyer, had a chronic swelling, with stiff- ness, and at times inflammation of and about the elbow joint, with contractions of the muscles that kept the arm and hand at a right angle, and it was nearly paralyzed. It was tender to touch, smooth, red and somewhat hot, was stiff and painful continually. I placed the elbow on a broad plate electrode, three inches in diameter, that was covered with a soft thin sponge and laid upon the table, upon which his arm rested. This was connected with the negative pole, while the positive was placed on the outer and upper muscles of the joint, and thus, at first, a scarcely perceptible current of thirty Dan- rig. 94. A View of the Muscles on the Front of the Leg. 1. Tendon of the Quadriceps Femoris. 2. Spine of the Tibia. 3. Tibialis Amicus. 4. Extensor Communis Digitorum. 5. Extensor Proprius Pollicis. 6. Peroneus Tertius. 7. Peroneus Longus. 8. Peroneus Brevis. 9, 9. Borders of the Soleus. 10. Portion of the Gastrocnemius. 11. Extensor Brevis Digitorum.