The Electric Bath

I have thought it best for practical purposes, to accompany the consideration of the treatment of special diseases by the histories of illustrative cases, where I had such at co...

In accordance with the plan of the present work, the remarks I shall offer under this head are by no means intended to comprise all that is known at the present day of the physi...

To a proper comprehension of the succeeding chapters, it is necessary first of all to be familiar with the apparatus employed in carrying out electro-balneological treatment, an...

I shall describe under this head the _modus operandi_ of administering a routine galvanic or faradic bath. As it will become necessary to describe special modes of administratio...

The therapeutic uses of a remedy are based on what we know of its physiological effects. Many--or rather most--of the therapeutic effects of this as well as of most other remedi...

General directions--Special diseases--Acute rheumatism--Subacute rheumatism--Chronic rheumatism--Cases of rheumatism--Chorea, with cases--Hysterical affections, with cases--Neur...

Characteristic differences between the electric bath and other methods of electrization--Effects on sleep; on general sensation; on the change of matter; on the pulse and temper...

The electric bath as a diagnostic; as an equalizer of the circulation; as a general counter-irritant; as a general invigorant and tonic--Its hypnotic and sedative influence--Its...