A Laboratory Manual of Electrotherapeutics (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Laboratory Manual of Electrotherapeutics

It has been our experience that the knowledge required by the student of medicine concerning electricity and its relation to animal economy is best acquired by the labora tory method. By that method of instruction each princi ple is impressed upon the mind through several separate paths of the sense perception and a manual dexterity is acquired which is essential to success in therapeutic appli cations.

This has been the plan adopted for teaching electro therapeutics at the University of Michigan. Every formof electric modality that has any distinctive physiological or therapeutic effect is studied in the laboratory as to its methods of generation, control'and application to the patient. We believe this to be the only practical way for imparting the kind of instruction required for the practice of electro-therapeutics, but in our attempts to develop a naturally progressive and at the same time complete and consistent course of laboratory instruction we have found it a thing of slow growth.

This laboratory manual is the final result of our various trials and experiences and while we do not claim for it either perfection in the arrangement of matter or completeness in detail, we feel that the time has come for putting our plan in a form that will permit for it a wider usefulness as well as gain for it the intelligent criticism of the experienced workers in the field which it seeks to cultivate.

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