Electricity Its Medical And Surgical Applications

Author : A. D. Rockwell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330347065
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity written by A. D. Rockwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity This is practically the 11th edition of this work. After passing through eight editions, the old work of Beard and Rockwell was thoroughly revised and mostly rewritten by the present writer. The old stereotyped plates were destroyed and all illustrations newly drawn. Four years ago another edition was issued in which no less pains were taken to keep the book fully abreast the times, in the departments of X-ray Diagnosis and Therapeutics, Light Therapy, Vibratory Therapeutics and High Frequency Currents. In the present edition, the chapter on High Frequency Currents has been enlarged and mostly rewritten, together with various needed changes and additions in the departments of X-ray Diagnosis and Therapeutics. The chapter devoted to Photo-Therapy has been enlarged and much of it rewritten, while the subject of Radio-Activity is considered in an additional chapter. But while welcoming the new it has been the aim of the writer not to discard the old simply because it is old. To his mind a grave error has been committed by those who have either abandoned or never attempted the use of those indispensable manifestations of electric force - the direct and induced continuous currents (galvanic and faradic). Elaborate electric paraphernalia (static and high-frequency), adorn the consulting room of many a physician who is quite ignorant of the fundamental principles on which is based the use of electricity in medicine, and who would be altogether perplexed if asked to differentiate in the use of electric modalities. Valuable as these newer forms of electricity are, they constitute not the whole of Electro-Therapy, and he who fails to study the art of differentiation and confines his efforts to any special electric modalities in response to the popular trend and because of ease of administration, will oftentimes widely miss the mark. Since the introduction of Static Electricity, its nutritional influence has been made much of as if the idea was new rather than otherwise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.