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Title: Principles of electro-medicine, electro-surgery and radiology : a practical treatise for students and practioners, with chapters on mechanical vibration and blood pressure technique
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Matijaca, Anthony
Subjects: Electric Stimulation Therapy Electric stimulation
Publisher: Butler, N.J. : B. Lust
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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he temperature of the part to the coagulating point (158° Fahr.)and to carry out minor surgical operations bloodlessly, without thedanger from absorption of poisonous products or burns. On accountof a more reliable technic, more accurate dosage, and a perfect hemo-stasis, this method is preferred to the application of actual cautery. Electro-coagulation is indicated in the removal of tumors, hemorr-hoids, polypus, naevi, furunculosis, necrosis of bone, ulcerative tuber-culosis, suppurating glands, warts, and other superficial lesions. On account of absolute asepsis, it has been successfully employed incombination with surgery in a large number of cases of deeper origin. 86 Anthony Matijaca As the diathermic current persists in water, various diseases, includ-ing bleeding papilloma, have been destroyed in the water distendedbladder, and both hard and soft species of bladder calculi have been dis-integrated with the spark applied by means of an insulated steel wirethrough a cystoscope.
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Fig. 33—Large Eye Magnet. Electrolysis Same electrolytic changes that take place in a compound substanceoccur in the human tissue (which is a semi-fluid) while an electric cur-rent is passing through it. Electrolysis is employed in the treatment of tumors, angioma, carci-noma, aneurysm, hemorrhage, granulations, goitres, fungoid growths,keloid; strictures of the eustachian tubes, lachrymal canals, and urethra;removal of superfluous hair, moles, naevi, warts, etc. In the application of electrolysis, bare, active metallic electrode isemployed, and the following must be remembered: I. Polarity is very important, and it must not be forgotten thatthe positive will coagulate fluids, arrest hemorrhage, decrease inflamma-tion, etc., while the negative will do the opposite. Electro-Medicine, Electro-Surgery and Radiology 87 II. The galvanic current is most adaptable, because the electrolyticeffect of a current is in proportion to its amperage; (therefore almostnegligible in Faradic, Sinusoid

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