Electricity in its relations to practical medicineAppleton, 1872 - 506 pages |
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... treatment of strictures , tumors , etc. In regard to obstetrics , we would repeat the wish expressed on a former occasion - that more extended experiments may be made by our honored col- leagues , especially by those who have charge of ...
... treatment of strictures , tumors , etc. In regard to obstetrics , we would repeat the wish expressed on a former occasion - that more extended experiments may be made by our honored col- leagues , especially by those who have charge of ...
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... treatment of cerebral and spinal affections . His observations in this field are recorded in his treat- ise on Galvano - therapeutics , and in a little brochure , as valuable as it is small , ' which he published a short time before his ...
... treatment of cerebral and spinal affections . His observations in this field are recorded in his treat- ise on Galvano - therapeutics , and in a little brochure , as valuable as it is small , ' which he published a short time before his ...
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... treatment last- ing for many weeks or months . Sometimes the process of recovery comes to a stand - still , or even an apparent relapse sets in ; in such instances it is good to interrupt the treat- ment and to allow the muscles rest ...
... treatment last- ing for many weeks or months . Sometimes the process of recovery comes to a stand - still , or even an apparent relapse sets in ; in such instances it is good to interrupt the treat- ment and to allow the muscles rest ...
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... treatment of paralytic cases has had a more scientific basis ever since we have been able , by means of that delicate re - agent , the electric current , to examine the nervous and muscular irritability of the parts affected , and to ...
... treatment of paralytic cases has had a more scientific basis ever since we have been able , by means of that delicate re - agent , the electric current , to examine the nervous and muscular irritability of the parts affected , and to ...
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... treatment , though the patient felt in other respects perfectly well , many months passed without the least change being apparent in the local difficulties , and the patient at last , by the advice of his phy- sician , applied to me ...
... treatment , though the patient felt in other respects perfectly well , many months passed without the least change being apparent in the local difficulties , and the patient at last , by the advice of his phy- sician , applied to me ...
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