ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS FOR THE USE OF PHYSICIANS AND STUDENTS
Book Details + Condition: McIntosh Galvanic & Faradic Battery Co. (Chicago). Early Edition, 1884. Hardcover with pebbled grained cloth. 417 pages with Index, and including 135 Illustrations. A list of 44 medical professionals that were consulted is also provided. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with a bit of discoloration; slight rubbing to endpapers; chafed spine ends; toning to pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
A very early work on electricity to diagnose and treat psychological and psychiatric conditions - published by a an electric battery company. Detailed instructions on using electric-generating machines for treating medical and psychological conditions, in what would today be considered primitive and cruel quack medicine. Chapters include:
- Methods of Electrifying a Patient
- History of Static Electric Machines
- Arrangement of Cells for Giving a Current of Great Quantity
- Laws of Electrolysis
- Needles Used and Diseases Treated
- Electro-Thermal Baths
- Uses of Electric Chairs
- Electro-Physiology
- Influence of Electricity on the Functions of the Nervous System
- Methods of Electrizing the Various Bodily Organs
- Electro-Diagnosis - To Detect the Presence of A Bullet or Other Metal in a Wound and Electro-Therapeutics
- Diseases of the Brain, Eyes... and Sexual Organs
- And more.
