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Title: The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bennett, Homer Clark, 1865-1928
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Electricity in medicine Ohm's law X-rays Electricity Electricity X-Rays Electromagnetic Phenomena Electric Stimulation Therapy
Publisher: Lima (Ohio) : Literary Dept. of the National College of Electro-Therapeutics
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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pped the patient thinks he is well, andthe treatment is likewise stopped, as well as some other things, such aspractice and income. Pain starts somewhere from some cause, which may be central or periph-eral. Peripheral pains are usually local and due to visible causes. Painsof central causation are usually more general, or diffuse and the cause notseen. Reflex pains are harder to locate, and will be more carefully studi-ed under the title of headaches, which are the most frequent reflex painswe are called on to treat electrically. Pains of central origin are usually due to some spine lesion, and care-ful experiments by eminent neurologists, such as Head and Gowers, havegiven us approximately accutate maps of the human body, locating theareas, zones, or lines of pain or absence of pain, which indicate the loca-tion of the central spinal lesion. These maps are shown in the accom-panying cuts of the full length figures of the man, showing front, back and 218 THE ELECTRO-THERAPEUTIC GUIDE
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both side views. While these are not claimed to be absolutely accurate,they are approximately so, and are a reasonably reliable guide for us tofollow, and a valuable means of diagnosis and assistance in our electro-therapeutic treatment. THK KIvECTRO-THERAPEUTIC GUIDE 219

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