How to Use a Galvanic Battery in Medicine and Surgery / A Discourse Delivered Before the Hunterian Society, Third Edition

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HOW TO USE A GALVANIC BATTERY IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
A Discourse DELIVERED BEFORE THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.
BY HERBERT TIBBITS, M.D.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGY AND ELECTROLOGY; LATE HONORARY MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC, OUEEN’S SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY, AND OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE CLINICAL, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL, HARVEIAN AND PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETIES; FOUNDER OF, AND SENIOR PHYSICIAN TO, THE WEST END HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; AND MEDICAL OFFICER FOR ELECTRICAL TREATMENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, GREAT ORMONDE STREET, ETC. ETC.
THIRD EDITION
REVISED, AND INCORPORATING THREE LECTURES UPON ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS DELIVERED BY THE AUTHOR AT THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL
LONDON: J. & A. CHURCHILL, 11 NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1886.
This Discourse was first published in compliance with the request of several of those who heard it delivered, and who expressed to me an opinion that busy practitioners might perhaps be glad to have at hand, and in small compass, such information as it contained. It was obviously impossible to do more in so limited a time than to make a general reference to the therapeutic uses of electricity; and the most that I attempted in this direction was to recall to the recollection of my audience those conditions of disease in which the application of electricity would seem—without doubt—to be required; and to indicate the methods of application most generally useful. The construction of apparatus can not be understood from verbal or written description alone; and I appended to the text certain notes, and illustrations of the instruments which I submitted to the Society.
With the Second Edition I incorporated three Lectures which I delivered at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic; and to this Edition I have appended such additional matter as I believe will prove useful to the student.