Electricity in Health and Disease: A Treatise of Authentic Facts for General Readers, in which is Shown how Electric Currents are Made to Act as Curative Remedies, Together with an Account of the Principal Diseases which are Benefited by Them : Presenting Also the Solution of the Problem of Tuberculosis in the United States

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McGraw Publishing Company, 1907 - 321 oldal
 

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9. oldal - Dials: the same method we have taken ever since ; and to this day, while hundreds, perhaps thousands, have received unspeakable good, I have not known one man, woman, or child, who has received any hurt thereby : so that when I hear any talk of the danger of being electrified, (especially if they are medical men who talk so,) I cannot but impute it to great want either of sense or honesty.
9. oldal - I appointed, first, some hours in every week, and afterward an hour in every day, wherein any that desired it, might try the virtue of this surprising medicine. Two or three years after, our patients were so numerous that we were obliged to divide them : so part were electrified in Southwark, part at the Foundery, others near St.
274. oldal - Tuberculosis and the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society of The City of New York, at the Museum of Natural History, from November 27 to December 9, 1905.
9. oldal - Having procured an apparatus on purpose, I ordered several persons to be electrified, who were ill of various disorders ; some of whom found an immediate, some a gradual, cure. From this time I appointed, first, some hours in every week, and afterward an hour in every day, wherein any that desired it, might try the virtue of this surprising medicine.
138. oldal - The cases in which it appears to be more especially applicable are those occurring in young women, in whom the disease assumes somewhat of an hysterical character, and those protracted cases in boys in whom other remedies have been tried ineffectually, and in whom the disease is dependent upon no obvious source of irritation, and has an injurious effect upon the general health instead of being affected by it.
151. oldal - is a nutritional disorder, associated with an excessive formation of uric acid and characterized clinically by attacks of acute arthritis, by the gradual deposition of urate of soda in and about the joints and by the occurrence of irregular constitutional symptoms.
107. oldal - The nervous system requires complete rest after blows caused by sorrow. Recent medical observations show that the physical results of depressing emotions are similar to those caused by bodily accidents, fatigue, chill, partial starvation, and loss of blood. Birds, moles and dogs, which apparently died in consequence of capture, and from conditions that correspond in human beings to acute nostalgia and "broken heart...
138. oldal - The effects of electricity in chorea are sometimes very remarkable. On some occasions, I have known it to effect a cure after a great variety of other remedies had for weeks and months been tried in vain The change has not been more beneficial than it has been rapid. In the course of a week or ten days...
9. oldal - In this course of time I have likewise had occasion to collect several other Remedies . . . and one, I must aver, from personal knowledge, grounded on a thousand experiments, to be far superior to all the other medicines I have known; I mean Electricity. I cannot but entreat all those who are well-wishers of mankind, to make full proof of this. Certainly it comes the nearest to a universal medicine, of any yet known in the world.
xiii. oldal - ... be a gentleman, and should treat other physicians and his patients as he would wish to be treated under like circumstances. And your duty in this matter is to attend to your own ethics and not those of other people. Medicine is not a rigid system of rules and formulae as it was in ancient Egypt ; a fixed creed to which you are to subscribe, and from which you must not vary. It is a living, growing thing, making use of every resource which the progress of science brings ; it is truly eclectic...

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