. Medical electricity; a practical treatise on the applications of electricity to medicine and surgery. Stimulation of the hypothenar group. little affected recover speedily under faradic treatment, butthat muscles having lost their power of response to thefaradic current soon undergo atrophy. He advises faradi-zation, using at first strong, rapidly interrupted currents,the applications being ten to fifteen minutes in duration,daily, and afterward weaker currents (Fig. 80). Although Fir,. 8r /£>. Atrophy ami contraction of the muscles of the hand. Duchenne achieved very great results by far
. Medical electricity; a practical treatise on the applications of electricity to medicine and surgery. Stimulation of the hypothenar group. little affected recover speedily under faradic treatment, butthat muscles having lost their power of response to thefaradic current soon undergo atrophy. He advises faradi-zation, using at first strong, rapidly interrupted currents,the applications being ten to fifteen minutes in duration,daily, and afterward weaker currents (Fig. 80). Although Fir,. 8r /£>. Atrophy ami contraction of the muscles of the hand. Duchenne achieved very great results by faradic treatment,his practice was the less efficient because of his persistentopposition to galvanism. He was on the verge of dis-covering the facts subsequently ascertained by Erb, regard-ing the difference in the reactions of nerve and muscle, and 1 De lElectrisation Localisee, op cit. 198 ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS. the reactions of degeneration in general. Besides thespecial electrical authorities who may be supposed to havepredispositions in favor of their remedy, Rosenthal,1 Erb,Eulenburg,3 and others, as strongly maintain the utility ofelectricity in these cases. Neuritis.—Since the publication of the last edition ofthis work the subject of neuritis has assumed new impor-tance as a factor in peripheral paralyses, motor and sen-sory. In this affection single nerve-trunks, or many,become inflamed ; the former is simple, the latter, multipleneuritis, and a large number being invaded in quick s
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