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Page 118
The affected muscles steadily increased in bulk , their electro - contractility
improved , sensibility to the electric current , touch , tickling , heat and cold ,
returned , and at the end of four months the patient was enabled to use his right
arm freely ...
The affected muscles steadily increased in bulk , their electro - contractility
improved , sensibility to the electric current , touch , tickling , heat and cold ,
returned , and at the end of four months the patient was enabled to use his right
arm freely ...
Page 121
In some cases , at a single application it restored the power of movement to parts
long deprived of it , and we have seen very few instances in which there has not
been improved nutrition and greater sensibility and strength when we were able
...
In some cases , at a single application it restored the power of movement to parts
long deprived of it , and we have seen very few instances in which there has not
been improved nutrition and greater sensibility and strength when we were able
...
Page 124
Treatment was resumed , with steady improvement , and gradual return of
voluntary power , until he was even able to write . Fig . Fig . 47 . Hand after
Treatment . 46 shows the hand after treatment , as the patient endeavored to
place it in the ...
Treatment was resumed , with steady improvement , and gradual return of
voluntary power , until he was even able to write . Fig . Fig . 47 . Hand after
Treatment . 46 shows the hand after treatment , as the patient endeavored to
place it in the ...
Page 125
Nature will not effect a cure spontaneously by mere lapse of time , for in the
above case no less than four years had passed without improvement . The next
case is an example of the inutility in such cases of recent faradization . A man
was ...
Nature will not effect a cure spontaneously by mere lapse of time , for in the
above case no less than four years had passed without improvement . The next
case is an example of the inutility in such cases of recent faradization . A man
was ...
Page 147
This treatment carried out three times a week for a month produced not the
slightest improvement , but to avoid pain to the child , the current had been
interrupted only once or twice in a second . A very quickly interrupted current ,
causing great ...
This treatment carried out three times a week for a month produced not the
slightest improvement , but to avoid pain to the child , the current had been
interrupted only once or twice in a second . A very quickly interrupted current ,
causing great ...
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| Title | A Handbook of Medical Electricity Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 |
| Author | Herbert Tibbits |
| Publisher | Lindsay & Blakiston, 1873 |
| Length | 164 pages |
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