Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.
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- Publication/creation
- Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1861.
- Physical description
- 3 unnumbered pages, 716 pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Contributors
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Garratt, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1813?-1891
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
- Notes
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3d ed. has title: Medical electricity
Includes index and testimonials
- Type/technique
- Electronic books
- Subjects
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Electrophysiology
Electrotherapeutics
- Attribution and usage
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Tonic and Clonic Convulsions.—Exhaustion of Nerve Power. —Asthma and
Angina Pectoris. — Chorea, (St. Vitus's Dance.)—Hysterical Convulsions.—
Cramps, Hickups, and Tremblings. — Tetanus and Agitans. — Effects of Electric
Currents as a Remedy. — Chills and Fever. — " Dumb Ague," Intermitting Fe-
ver.— Diseases of Nervous Debility. — Treatment by Electricity 583
CHAPTER IX.
Midwifery. — Abdominal Viscera. — Secretions. — Effects of the Electrical Cur-
rent on the Uterus. — Professor Simpson's Views.—Nerves of the Uterus de-
monstrated. — It is Reflex Action that affects the Womb. —Electro-physiology
repudiates direct Excitation from Continuity or Contiguity. — Stimuli directed
to the Mammary Nerves. — To the Intercostal Nerves.— To the Pneumogastric
Nerves.— To the Spinal or Abdominal Nerves.— Prolapsus Uteri.— Introver-
sion and Retroversion. — Amenorrhoca and Dismenorrhoca. — Electricity the only
true Emmenagogue.— Chlorosis.— Bowels.— Habitual Constipation.— Intestinal
Atony in Old People. — A State of the Stomach and Bowels that yields imper-
fect Nourishment. — Flatus and Pains in the Bowels. — All amenable to Elec-
tro-therapeutics.— Cholera. — Collapse Stage.— Spasms and Cramps. — Effects
of Electric Currents on these Cases. — Breast-milk. — Dropsy. — Hydrocele.—
Cancer. — Tubercle. — Consumption the Consequence of Loss of Flesh with
Debility. — Curable by Electricity and other rational Means 606
CHAPTER X.
Electricity in Surgery.—Electric Currents cannot produce complete and simple
Anaesthesia. — Nervous Affections of the Eye. —Of Eye Muscles. — Black Spots.
— Artificial Pupil. — Nervous Affections of the Ear. — Indolent Ulcers. —Elec-
tric Moxa.— Electro-puncture for Aneurism.— Acu-puncture.— Un-united Frac-
ture of Bone. — Electric Cautery. — Surgical Dentistry. — Faradaic Process in
Tooth-extracting. — Smee's Portable Battery for Office Use, illustrated. — Upper
and lower Jaws, showing their Alveoli and Teeth in Natural Position, illustrated.
— Galvano-cautcry for the Teeth. — Urinary Bladder and Renal Calculi. — Ac-
tion of Narcotic Poisons, and Electricity as a Remedy. — Cases to illustrate. —
Wall-paper Poison 640