Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.
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not fail to be of use in burning out the seeds of cancer after removing a cancerous tumor, or in destroying even to the minutest point or speck the various morbid growths for which the actual cautery is generally vised. " This operation was performed May 18. On the 21st, when visiting this woman to-day, she expressed herself quite a new being, as she can now retain her urine three times as long as she did formerly. It is too early, however, to form a decided opinion. — 23d. Marks of improvement are beginning to be quite per- ceptible in the woman's countenance. She states that she has not been so well for 'years and years.' — June 4. Dr. Paget is quite satisfied with the good result of the operation. The remedy in this case has been an interesting one, as a galvanic experiment, free from pain, and ultimately effectual after other operative proceedings had failed." SURGICAL DENTISTRY. The Faradaic Process in Tooth-Extracting: The magneto-electric machine that I employed while making my researches in this particular line, the year immediately after my return from Europe, was a very simple and neat apparatus, and is now extensively manufactured by Mr. Hall, for dentists' use. It is the neatest machine for office practice, either for the physician or dentist, that I have ever seen. The helix is long, and completely covered with a silvered band and ivory ends, admitting a very delicate graduation of the current, by the ad- justable rod or bundle of soft iron wires within. A Smee's bat- tery is employed to run the helix, and requires cleaning only once a week or month. One part sulphuric acid, with fourteen parts water, runs the battery suitable for dentists' use. The neg- ative (strongest) pole is to be attached to the forceps, while the positive (weaker) pole is either applied to the nape of the neck, or under the ear, of the side the tooth is to be extracted, or else held in the hand of the patient, on the same side the tooth is situated. The adjustable attachment or contact of the negative
Publication/creation
Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1861.
Physical description
3 unnumbered pages, 716 pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contributors
Garratt, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1813?-1891
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Notes
3d ed. has title: Medical electricity
Includes index and testimonials
Type/technique
Electronic books
Subjects
Electrophysiology
Electrotherapeutics
Attribution and usage
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