An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . nevralgies rebelles. He, however,characteristically enough, designed another apparatus himself,which he greatly preferred to Pulvermachers. Among English physicians who bestowed a kindly thoughtupon medical electricity was Vivian Poore, who published awork on the subject, Electricity in Medicine and Surgery, * A Treatise on Medical Electricity, by Julius Althaus, , P.,London. Third Edition, 1873. A mine of information upon earlier electro-therapy. 106 AN ESSAY ON THE in 1876, and in this work he describes the refreshing actio
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . nevralgies rebelles. He, however,characteristically enough, designed another apparatus himself,which he greatly preferred to Pulvermachers. Among English physicians who bestowed a kindly thoughtupon medical electricity was Vivian Poore, who published awork on the subject, Electricity in Medicine and Surgery, * A Treatise on Medical Electricity, by Julius Althaus, , P.,London. Third Edition, 1873. A mine of information upon earlier electro-therapy. 106 AN ESSAY ON THE in 1876, and in this work he describes the refreshing action ofthe galvanic current in counteracting muscular fatigue. Steavenson, the first of the regular modern electrical medicalofficers at St. Bartholomews Hospital, installed an electricbath in his department in 1882, and at his death left a massof manuscript notes, which formed the nucleus of Steavensonand Lewis Joness work on Medical Electricity, which wasthe parent of what is probably the most popular English text-book on the subject at the present W. E. Bartholomews Hospital, 1882-1890. Ionic to introduce drugs into the body by means ofelectricity date back, as we have already seen, well into theeighteenth century. With the discovery of voltaic electricitythe possibility of medication by this means was again suggestedby Sir Humphry Davy. In 1833, Fabre-Palaprat endeavouredto introduce iodine by fixing a compress soaked in a solutionof potassium iodide and covered with a platinum disc on oneof his arms, while another compress soaked in a solution ofstarch and similarly covered was fastened to his other disc covering the solution of iodide was connected to the HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 107 negative, and that covering the starcli to the positive pole of abattery. The current was allowed to pass for a time, andFabre-Palaprat declared that the starch acquired a blue tint,an observation which has not since been repeated. Accordingto F
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