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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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peded by the arms orback of a chair. The general treatments are also given with the patient ina recumbent position, all clothing removed and their person protected by asheet or blanket. This is a very easy and efficient manner of makinggeneral applications. In many cases these treatments may be given largely by the patientsthemselves as far as the manipulation of the electrodes is concerned. Ifthe patient is in an erect position during treatment one wire from the bat-tery may be attached to a zinc or copper plate upon which the feet rest;or the feet may be immersed in a bowl of water and the one pole placedin the water. In the former method the zinc and copper is frequently unpleasantlycold to the patient, and as the skin upon the soles of the feet is so thick asto afford great resistance, it does not make as good a conductor as the water.The water may be warmed, a little salt added to assist in overcoming theresistance of the skin, and as the water comes in contact with the sides and
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upper surface of the feet as Vv^ell as the soles, it makes a much better modeof application. If the treatments are given while the patient is in a recumbent posi-tion, the zinc or copper plate may be used at the feet, or sponge or cotton-covered electrodes preferably attached to the ankles instead of the soles, onaccount of less resistance. The question, Which pole shall be passed over the body? is the one THE EI.ECTRO-THERAPEUTIC GUIDE 99 first asked by nearly every physician and by them is considered the all-im-portant point. The question of polarity is not of as great importance in the use of thefaradic currents as galvanic. These points, however, may be borne in mind: If in the treatment of nervous conditions or whenever it is desired to re-lieve pain, a sedative effect is indicated, the negative pole should be at thefeet or coccyx and the positive pole applied over the seat of pain and pas-sed all over the body. If an irritating or stimulating effect is desired, as for instance i

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