of "Sympathetic" (so called). Limitation of Electricity as a Remedy Effects of Electricity upon Nutrition 110 15. J 14. Duchenne's Large Uncovered Instrument 16. Front view of the above Duchenne's Small Volta-Faradic Instrument 41 44 46 17. 18. 46. The same (after treatment) 47. The same (writing) 48. Case of Traumatic Paralysis (before treatment) 49. The same (during treatment) 50. The same (after treatment) 51. Infantile Paralysis 52. The same 53. Direct View of Foot in Infantile Paralysis 54. Side View 55. Another Case 56. Atrophic Paralysis of Muscles of Shoulder 57. Atrophic Paralysis of Deltoid 58. Muscles Developed by Faradization 59. Atrophic Paralysis of Hand (before treatment) 60. The same (after treatment) 61. Case of Torticollis 62. Another Case. 63. Contraction of Rhomboid (before treatment) 64. The same (after treatment) 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 |