“In the division of Muscular Atrophies some striking cases have occurred, and in all of these the improvement is mainly due to the electrical treatment prescribed.
“A patient, with atrophy of some of the muscles of both arms of six months’ standing, which incapacitated her from dressing herself or cutting her food, or doing much household work, was discharged at the end of three and a half months, able to feed and dress herself, sew, and perform almost any domestic duty.
“Another woman, with atrophy of the muscles of the forearm of several years’ standing, and who was similarly incapacitated from almost all use of the hands, went out, after a month’s treatment, able to dress and feed herself, and to perform many actions that were before impossible for her.
“A man came to the hospital with atrophy of many muscles in various parts of the body, more especially in the left arm, which he was unable to move from the side. He went out able to lift his arm well over his head, and with much increased strength in the limb.
“Another man, in a very similar condition, was also greatly benefited; and whereas on admission he could barely bend the right arm at the elbow, after three months’ treatment he was able to use a hammer with the arm.”
INDEX.
- Bath, Electric, [42]
- Battery, Accessories of, [35]
- Faradaic, [29]
- Hospital Combined, [33]
- Portable, [18]
- Voltaic, [20]
- Voltaic, Essentials of, [27]
- Cautions in Electrizing Facial Muscles, [85]
- Cells, Voltaic, [18]
- Conducting Cords, [35]
- “Constant Current,” importance of exactitude in administering, [52]
- Cords, Conducting, [35]
- Current, Constant, Radcliffe’s Variety of, [41]
- Degenerative Nerve Reaction, [66]
- Diagnosis between Real and Feigned Disease, [67]
- of Central Paralysis, [66]
- Electro, [62]
- of Peripheral from Central Disease, [65]
- of Hysterical Paralysis, [67]
- of Spinal Paralysis, [66]
- Dischargers, Improved, [16]
- Electricity as Proof Positive of Death, [67]
- Electricity in Diagnosis, [62]
- Varieties of, [5]
- Methods of applying, [37]
- the Galvanometer as an aid to the Dosage of, [22]
- Electrization, [71]
- as a Constant Current, [72]
- as a Stimulant, [72]
- Central, [44]
- Cutaneous, [53]
- Direct, [49]
- in Diseases of Women, [90]
- Effects of upon Nutrition, [72]
- in Fatigue Diseases, [74]
- in General Debility, [80]
- General effects of, [79]
- in Hemiplegia, [85]
- Indirect, [50]
- in Locomotor Ataxy, [88]
- Muscular Rule for, [83]
- in Mental Diseases, [89]
- in Neuralgia, [73]
- in Paralysis, Atrophic, [81]
- in Paralysis, [80]
- in Paraplegic Constipation, [88]
- in Paralysis, Emotional, [88]
- in Paralysis, Infantile, [81]
- in Paraplegia, [88]
- in Paralysis of Nerves of Special Sense, [92]
- in Post-partum Hæmorrhage, [91]
- in Paralysis, Traumatic, [84]
- Localized, [44]
- in Wasting Palsy, [85]
- of Auditory Nerve, [57]
- of Bladder, [55]
- of Brain, [56]
- of Central Organs, [57]
- of Internal Organs, [54]
- of Larynx, [55]
- of Male Genital Organs, [55]
- of Ocular Muscles, [57]
- possesses an influence sui generis, [74]
- precautions in, [59]
- of Rectum, [54]
- Restorative Power of, [74]
- of Retina, [57]
- of Spinal Cord, [57]
- of Sympathetic, [56]
- of Uterus, [55]
- Electrical Static Machine, [7], [10]
- Static Machine with Fly-wheel, [12]
- Winter’s Machine, [8]
- Electrolysis of Tumours, [76]
- in Aneurisms, [77]
- Needles for, [58]
- Electrotonus, [75]
- Engine, Gas, Bischoff’s, [9]
- Faradism, [28]
- Faradization, General, [43]
- Franklinism, [6]
- Franklinization, [68]
- by Sparks, [16]
- Distinction between Positive and Negative Charge of, [70]
- in Conditions of Debility, [71]
- in Emotional Aphonia, [69]
- in Facial Neuralgia, [68]
- in Facial Spasm, [68]
- in Sciatica, [68]
- in Localized Excessive Sensitiveness, [70]
- in Tremor, [70]
- Modes of Generating, [7], [15]
- Galvanism, see Voltaism
- Galvanization, Central, [44]
- Galvanometer as an aid to the Dosage of Electricity, [22]
- Irritability, Electro, [62]
- Farado, [63]
- Voltao, [63]
- Electro, Diminished, [64]
- Electro, Increased, [65]
- Voltao, Increased, [65]
- Paralysis, Importance of Early Electrical Treatment in, [82]
- Rigid Forms of, [84]
- Rheophores, Different Kinds of, [47]
- Voltaic Cells, [18]
- Current, Resolvent Effects of, [76]
- Voltaism, [17]
- and Faradism, Points of Distinction between, [18]
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