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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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case, may set up such a decided movement toward thenormal as to cause a marked disturbance. Therefore the generators arearranged as to regulate the effect desired. As in all forms of treatment, frequent and mild applications, so as toget the slow and cumulative effects, are best. The effect on the pulse andtemperature is marked, the tendency being to restore the balance in either,whether they be too high or too low, though sometimes in a fever, there isa slight increase of the temperature, before a recession to the normal. 180 THE ELECTRO-THERAPEUTIC GUIDE The well known and widely adv.ertised case of spasm of the diaphragmor persistant hiccough, which puzzled and baffled the whole medical frater-nity so long, was undoubtedly cured by this method of treatment. Thiswas a case of a fifteen j^ear old girl, who hiccoughed on an average of eighty-nine times every half hour during her waking hours, for a period of overten months, and which yielded to nothing, until treated by magnetisation.
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The accompanying half tone from an actual photograph of the case,shows the hiccough girl being treated, and demonstrates the simplicity ofthe method. In all cases the point of sufficiency of the treatment is manifested by asense of congestion and frontal headache, which is harmless in itself, butis a good index when to stop, as being proof that enough has been givenfor the present. THE ElyECTRO-THERAPEUTIC GUIDE 181 These generators are simply connected in parallel, by means of cables,in series with any ordinary lamp socket. A Vetter series current tap, andthe alternated current is used. If necessary, for a more decided effect, thegenerators may be taken from their supports, and placed directly in contactwith the part to be treated. This modality is yet in the formative or experimental stage, and ofcourse the treatments are largely empirical, but that is nothing against themethod, because, after thousands of years of the practice of drug medica-tion, medicine is still largely empirica

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