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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cases of local palsy, from the employment of electricity applied
to the paralyzed muscles in currents of moderate intensity,
gradually increased in force during the seance; and although
there are cases that will not be so benefited by it, yet there
are others which will yield most readily to the judicious and
repeated applications of this remedy." *
Finally, I lay it down as a rule, that, in all such cases as
admit of the external and internal use of stimuli or tonics, as
in the asthenic and more chronic cases, such are also proper
cases to receive prudent trials in electro-therapeutics ; and
currents of moderate electro-magnetism are my first choice,
usually, for this purpose. If this is received favorably, (i. e.,
for the better,) or even negatively, (i. e., harmlessly,) say for
two or three seances, then I conclude that still more good
may be developed by the disturbing, chemical action, or from
the direct catalytical in-working of galvanic currents, or even
from stronger currents of induction, or from static shock, or
sparks drawn from the throat muscles.
CHAPTER VIII.
SPASTIC DISEASES. —CRAMPS, SPASMS, CONVULSIONS.
Dr. Marshall Hall maintained that the spinal system is
the source and seat of all the classes of convulsive diseases.
There are, he says, several important physiological facts to be
noted, (and here we condense his statements,) viz.: —
1. If we puncture, or lacerate, or otherwise injure the cere-
brum or cerebellum, or the cerebral nerves of special sense, in
every possible manner, we observe no results — no phenomena,
no expression of pain, no excited movement. The cerebral
system, in all its parts, is, in this respect, inexcitable.
2. If we touch any part of the spinal system, and especially
the spinal centre, with the mere point of a needle, if ever so
slightly, then there are immediately excited muscular move-
* See a French work " Diptheritic Paralysis, " by M. Manigault.