Electricity in its relations to practical medicineAppleton, 1872 - 506 pages |
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... especially during the last few years , is in the highest degree encouraging . The possibility of the constant current acting on the brain or spinal marrow - which has been until late so generally doubted - the electrotonic action . of ...
... especially during the last few years , is in the highest degree encouraging . The possibility of the constant current acting on the brain or spinal marrow - which has been until late so generally doubted - the electrotonic action . of ...
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... especially worthy of notice . The last- named , by his masterly report to the Société Royale de Médecine , 1773 , made his colleagues enthusiastic partisans of the new method of treatment . Thus manifold uses were made of electricity ...
... especially worthy of notice . The last- named , by his masterly report to the Société Royale de Médecine , 1773 , made his colleagues enthusiastic partisans of the new method of treatment . Thus manifold uses were made of electricity ...
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... especially efficacious in cases of paralysis of certain organs . Until now , however , the experiments had been made only with certain chain - connections . But when Volta's pile , con- structed in 1800 , attracted the more general ...
... especially efficacious in cases of paralysis of certain organs . Until now , however , the experiments had been made only with certain chain - connections . But when Volta's pile , con- structed in 1800 , attracted the more general ...
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... especially isolated wires , as on a solid piece of iron . Consequently , in a current induced by a bundle of wire , a given quantity of electricity will be more quickly compensated , and thereby more energetic in its action , than in a ...
... especially isolated wires , as on a solid piece of iron . Consequently , in a current induced by a bundle of wire , a given quantity of electricity will be more quickly compensated , and thereby more energetic in its action , than in a ...
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... especially by varying the action of the constant currents , this difference may , it is true , be ren- dered almost imperceptible . A reversion of the law of con 1 Gilbert and Ritter's Annalen der Physik , p . 324 . Galvanotherapie , p ...
... especially by varying the action of the constant currents , this difference may , it is true , be ren- dered almost imperceptible . A reversion of the law of con 1 Gilbert and Ritter's Annalen der Physik , p . 324 . Galvanotherapie , p ...
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