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

by Herbert Tibbits

2. Voltaism.
Points of Distinction between the Voltaic and Faradaic Currents.
The Essentials of a Voltaic Battery.
The 40-Cell Battery.
The Galvanometer as an aid to the Dosage of Electricity.

3. Faradism. The Essentials of a Faradaic Instrument.
Description of a Faradaic Instrument.
The Combined Hospital Battery.

The Accessories of Electrical Apparatus.

[LECTURE II.
METHODS OF APPLYING ELECTRICITY.]

Résumé of First Lecture.

Generalized Electrization.
The Positive Charge.
The Electric Bath.
General Faradization.
Central Galvanization.

Localized Voltaization and Localized Faradization.
Direct Muscular Electrization.
Indirect ” ”
Different kinds of Rheophores.
Importance of exactitude in administering a Constant Current.

Cutaneous Electrization.
(a) The Electric Hand.
(b) Metallic Conductors.
(c) The Wire Brush.

Electrization of Internal Organs.
(a) of Rectum and Muscles of Anus.
(b) of Bladder.
(c) of Uterus.
(d) of Larynx.
(e) of Male Genitals.