This work, like its little predecessor from the same pen, has been adapted exclusively to the use of Dr. Jerome Kidder's Electro-Magnetic Machine, manufactured and sold, at present, at No. 544 Broadway, New York; because the author, having used in his own practice a considerable variety of the most popular machines intended for therapeutic purposes, and having examined several others, believes this to be incomparably the best in use. Dr. Kidder has, with most laudable zeal, pressed on his researches and improvements in the manufacture of these instruments, until there seems to be scarcely anything more in them to be desired. They are certainly not equalled by any others in America, and probably not surpassed, if equalled, by any in the world.
D. C.
Plainfield, Ill., June, 1869.
CONTENTS.
| Page. | |
| Introduction | [xi] |
| FIRST PRINCIPLES. | |
| Dr. Jerome Kidder's Electro-Magnetic Machine | [21] |
| Polarization | [26] |
| The Electric Circuit | [28] |
| Polarization of the Circuit | [29] |
| The Central Point of the Circuit | [33] |
| The Current | [35] |
| Modifications of Electricity | [36] |
| The Vital Forces—Animal and Vegetable | [37] |
| Extent of Electric Agency | [42] |
| Theory of Man | [44] |
| The Lower Animals | [54] |
| The Vegetable Kingdom | [56] |
| Natural Polarization of Man's Physical Organism | [56] |
| Electrical Classification of Diseases | [58] |
| Philosophy of Disease and Cure | [58] |
| PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE. | |
| Polar Antagonism | [61] |
| Importance of Noting the Central Point | [62] |
| Distinctive Use of Each Pole | [63] |
| Use of the Long Cord | [69] |
| The Inward and the Outward Current | [74] |
| Mechanical Effect of Each Pole | [75] |
| Relaxed and Atrophied Conditions | [77] |
| General Direction of the Current | [78] |
| Treating With Electrolytic Currents | [79] |
| Positive and Negative Manifestations | [81] |
| Healing | [84] |
| Diagnosis | [84] |
| PRESCRIPTIONS. | |
| Preliminary Remarks | [94] |
| General Tonic Treatment | [95] |
| Common Colds | [98] |
| Cephalagia (Headache) | [100] |
| Deafness | [102] |
| Noises in the Head | [103] |
| Inflamed Eyes | [103] |
| Amaurosis | [104] |
| Strabismus (Discordance of the Eyes) | [104] |
| Catarrh (Acute) | [105] |
| Catarrh (Chronic) | [105] |
| Diphtheria | [106] |
| Aphonia (Loss of Voice) | [106] |
| Croup | [107] |
| Asthma | [108] |
| Hepatization of Lungs | [108] |
| Pneumonia | [108] |
| Pulmonary Phthisis (Consumption) | [109] |
| Neuralgia and Rheumatism of the Heart | [111] |
| Enlargement and Ossification of the Heart | [112] |
| Palpitation of the Heart | [112] |
| Torpid Liver | [112] |
| Hepatitis (Inflammation of Liver) | [113] |
| Enlargement of Liver | [113] |
| Biliary Calculi (Gravel in Liver) | [114] |
| Intermittent Fever (Ague and Fever) | [114] |
| Nephritis (Inflammation of Kidneys) | [115] |
| Renal Calculi (Gravel in the Kidneys) | [116] |
| Diabetes (A Kidney Disease) | [116] |
| Dyspepsia | [117] |
| Acute Diarrhœa | [119] |
| Chronic Diarrhœa | [119] |
| Cholic (of whatever kind) | [120] |
| Cholera Morbus | [120] |
| Cholera (Malignant) | [121] |
| Dysentery | [122] |
| Constipation of Bowels | [122] |
| Hæmorrhoids (Piles) | [123] |
| Rheumatism (Acute Inflammatory) | [124] |
| Rheumatism (Chronic) | [125] |
| Dropsy | [126] |
| Neuralgia | [126] |
| Sciatica | [127] |
| Paralysis | [128] |
| Erysipelas | [129] |
| Eruptive Cutaneous Diseases | [130] |
| Common Cramp | [131] |
| Trismus (Lockjaw) | [132] |
| Tetanus | [132] |
| Cancers | [133] |
| Asphyxia (Suspended Animation) | [134] |
| Recent Wounds, Contusions and Burns | [135] |
| Old Ulcers | [135] |
| Hemorrhage | [136] |
| Chlorosis (Green Sickness) | [136] |
| Amenorrhœa (Suppressed Menstruation) | [138] |
| Dysmenorrhœa (Painful Menstruation) | [138] |
| Menorrhagia (Excessive Menstruation) | [139] |
| Prolapsus Uteri (Falling of the Womb) | [140] |
| Leucorrhœa (Whites) | [140] |
| Spermatorrhœa | [141] |
| Impotence | [142] |