By HERBERT TIBBITS, M.D., Etc.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
I.—Electricity and Electro-Medical Instruments.
II.—The Application of Electricity.
III.—Electricity as an aid to Diagnosis.
IV.—Electricity in Medicine.
V.—Electricity in Surgery.
VI.—Electricity in Midwifery and the Diseases of Women.
Opinions of the Medical Press.
“This work fills up a hiatus in the literature of medical electricity. It purposes to teach (to use the words of the preface) ‘the busy practitioner not only when to use electricity, but in explicit and full detail how;’ and in ‘moderate bulk to contain only what it is essential to master.’ Dr. Tibbits’ object has been to give the results of the best work, and to this end he has availed himself freely of the large experience of the Electrical Room of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic.
“The work is what it professes to be, and is a handbook in the best sense of the work. The book, indeed, answers thoroughly to the author’s description: that he has ‘throughout endeavoured to keep constantly in view the practitioner rather than the theorist,’ especially in points of detail which are of importance in order to secure the successful application of electricity, and to insure (a not insignificant matter in this respect) the comfort of the patient.”—The Lancet.
“There is not a word of exaggeration, or of fanciful hypothesis in the book, and, above all, there is not the least suggestion that there is after all a mystery behind, and that the reader would do well to come to an expert for advice. On the contrary, everything is made so clear that any practitioner, whether he previously knew anything of electricity or not, may from this book at once begin the practical use of it, and if there are any lingering doubts in the minds of some ultra-conservative persons as to the practical value of electrical treatment, this book should dispel them.... the busiest practitioner can, without difficulty, learn how to effect a large amount of good which he was previously quite unable even to attempt.”—The Practitioner.
“As Medical Superintendent of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, as well as through private practice. Dr. Tibbits has had ample opportunities of studying the application of electricity to medicine, and in the volume under notice, which aims principally at giving full and explicit details within convenient limits, how to use electricity, we are bound to say this object is fairly carried out.”—The Dublin Journal of Medical Science.
“The exact value of electricity as a therapeutic agent is imperfectly understood. That it is of great value in some cases as a means of improving nutrition, relieving pain, and exercising disused muscles, is undoubted, but still its exact value in all cases remains to be settled, and in Dr. Tibbits’ book we find a guide which will, at all events, help us to a solution of some of our difficulties.—The Medical Times and Gazette.
“Dr. Tibbits, who is known as an authority upon electricity, has written a concise book upon this subject for the general practitioner, embracing only the valuable part of the existing knowledge. The work is written in a condensed style, and is well adapted for the practitioner who does not make a specialty of electrical treatment.”—The New York Medical Journal.