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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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it on heavy oak base, whichmust be firmly screwed to the floor in a convenient corner of the office for use. Begin a gen-eral tonic treatment with the belt as shown, and gradually slip it down across the lumbarregion, then over the liver, abdomen, and spleen in turn, ending with any local applicationindicated. Pressure of the foot against the edge of the base aids the patient to keep tensionon the belt. Steady it with the hands as shown in the figure. IB 1 ^ ■ SHI .^n Im^^^^P^ 11 Bi^^^V^ 3 1 • ii 1 1 1 ■ W^^^:m 1 ► TISSUE-OSCILLATOR SERIES. Plate 287.—Showing position of patient with belt to himbar muscles, and operatorsteadying belt by loose pressure of his hands. With the patient well in line with the shaftthe handles will run very steadily without attention, but at times, and when the pull is out ofline, a little steadying is needed to check a side-throw. The j>atient should lean back uponthe belt with twenty to thirty pounds pressure to maintain an even tension on it.
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TISSUE-OSCILLATOR SERIES. Plate 288.—Showing the patient with outer clothing removed, and a side lean upon thebelt to act on the region of the liver. Reverse side for spleen. It is useful to place a chair asseen in the photograph to steady the jmtient in his posture. Dose rate of speed and length ofoscillating stroke as taught in the text. All the shiftings required to act on the trunk aremade without stopping the motor or relaxing the tension of the belt. Simply turn the body-as needed.

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