Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . ay just here that the friends of patients usually make aserious mistake when they follow after unprincipled quacks in orderto obtain relief from diseases that have been proved to be incurableby the experience of honorable and scientific men. There are many excellent people who run after every charlatanthey can hear of, and seem to prefer their advice to that of sensibleand reliable physicians. While it is true that happ
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . ay just here that the friends of patients usually make aserious mistake when they follow after unprincipled quacks in orderto obtain relief from diseases that have been proved to be incurableby the experience of honorable and scientific men. There are many excellent people who run after every charlatanthey can hear of, and seem to prefer their advice to that of sensibleand reliable physicians. While it is true that happy guesses are sometimes made by theseswindlers, it is also true that in the great majority of cases theyare less successful than are educated physicians, and oftentimesthey do incalculable harm. AND MOST RECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT. 585 DYJSTAMOMETEE AND DYSTAMOGKAPH. This apparatus is used to test the strength of paralyzed arms. By means of this the physician can determine the condition ofthe limb, and the progress of the case under treatment. The clock-work attachment is similar to that connected with theSphygmograph. (See Sjphygmograjph.) Figure 4.—The THE DYNAMOGRAPH. Figure 3.—The Dynamometer.
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