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Title: Principles of electro-medicine, electrosurgery and radiology : a practical treatise for students and practitioners. With chapters on mechanical vibration and blood pressure technique
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Matijaca, Anthony
Subjects: Vibration Electrotherapeutics X-rays Blood pressure Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Electrosurgery
Publisher: Butler, New Jersey Tangerine, Fl. New York City : Published by Benedict Lust
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ysiological measure,which does not relieve or obscure symptoms, but assists the body in theperformance of its physiological function. The introduction of diathermic heat results in better cell functionand an increase in the chemistry of the part. This warmth, introducedfrom without, is stored up as energy in every molecule of the cell proto-plasm. There is neither any expenditure of the patients reserve energy,nor is there any actual combustion of circulating nutrient. 56 Anthony Matijaca As a secondary effect of this local diathermatization, we have pro-duced a local arterial hyperaemia, and as a further result, we have in-creased the vis a tergo on the arterial side, which, too, improves thepressure of the little venules. Consequently, we have done much to re-lieve the local venous engorgement, and we are directly aiding the re-moval of those used-up products resulting frorn tissue changes, whichhave a damaging effect on the cellular life, if allowed to remain.—Frederick De Kraft.
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Fig. 21—Rear view of the ap-paratus shown in Fig. 20. INDICATIONS: By raising the local internal temperature only a fewdegrees above normal and thereby producing an active hyperaemia indeep structures (which lasts for several hours), dissolving some crystal-line deposits of urates, and destroying some infections micro-organism,remarkable results are obtained in the treatment of various local affec-tions, particularly those due to defective metabolism, streptococcic andtubercular infections, uric acid deposits, etc. Physiological diathermy is therefore indicated in chronic nephritis. Electro-Medicine, Electro-Surgery and Radiology 57 cholecystitis, pancreatitis, asthma, pleurisy, pneumonia, first stages ofphthisis, certain heart diseases (particularly in cases where impairmentof the muscular structure has taken place, as the result of changes of anarteriosclerotic nature in the coronary arteries), rheumatism, gout, lum-bago, acute and sub-acute arthritis, synovitis, neuralgia, neurit

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