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A HANDBOOK

OF

MEDICAL ELECTRICITY.

CHAPTER I.

MEDICAL ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRO-MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS.

THE almost complete absence in the medical schools of the great hospitals of opportunities for an adequate study of electro-therapeutics, the importance of the subject, and the wide-spread attention that it is awakening throughout the profession, have determined me to sketch as briefly as is consistent with clearness the present position of the science and practice of medical electricity, and especially of its practice.

I need hardly recall to mind, that until quite recently, to venture to speak of electricity as a curative power was pretty certain to result in the speaker being branded as little better than a quack; and even now, although this universal scepticism

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