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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mended by Baron Humboldt. After removing the raised cuti-
cle, be applied to one of these sores a small plate of silver, and
to the other a small plate of zinc. Tbese two plates, being
first bound on the sides of the larynx of the patient, were then
brought into metallic contact by means of the two connecting
wires, which were brought together and twisted. This was
borne but for a quarter of an hour. The larynx began to
heave convulsively, and there appeared also an abundant flow
of ichorous fluid from the raw surfaces, and a sighing or sob-
bing continued for some time. Tbere was soon observed a free
expectoration of mucus, which was followed, in the course of
two hours, with some little voice. This primitive " localized'''
galvanizing was thus repeated from day to day for a few more
times, and which was attended with like phenomena, when the
voice and power of the throat were perfectly restored. Tbe loss
of voice in this case, I should have said, was of several years'
standing.
In the Dublin Quarterly Journal for February, 1S-17, is
recorded a case much the same, and which was treated in the
same manner, and with the same good result. But in this
instance, the improvement in the voice began in the evening of
the very first day, after the first application of the metal plates
to the blistering on the sides of the throat. The case continued
to improve until the fourth day, when the voice was again lost.
But the process being repeated, and this time, moreover, the
apparatus being allowed to remain on all night, this was fol-
lowed with the other effects in permanently restoring the voice,
which continues.
Dr. Duchenne gives an account of two cases of hysterical
aphonia, one of six months' standing, and the other of more
than two years, both of which he treated and cured by the
direct Faradaic use of electro-magnetism, directed to the larynx.
He also makes mention of other cases of cures, but he mentions
no failures.
Dr. Althaus, of London, appears to have had ample facilities
for trying electro-magnetism in hysterical aphonia. Of the
fifteen cases he saw, two were married, thirteen were single, and
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