An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . areashould be gone over until the instrument can be applied to any part ofthe membrane without exciting reflex symptoms or causing the violentitching or burning, which the patient soon learns to recognize. The pain accompanying these applications varies according to thedegree of heat employed. Wliite heat, which cauterizes in an instant,destroys the nerve-filaments before they have time to convey the sensa-tion of pain to the nerve-centres. Cherry heat causes some pain, while. Fig. 10.—Vtjl
An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . areashould be gone over until the instrument can be applied to any part ofthe membrane without exciting reflex symptoms or causing the violentitching or burning, which the patient soon learns to recognize. The pain accompanying these applications varies according to thedegree of heat employed. Wliite heat, which cauterizes in an instant,destroys the nerve-filaments before they have time to convey the sensa-tion of pain to the nerve-centres. Cherry heat causes some pain, while. Fig. 10.—Vtjlpiuss ElECTEIC NASAIiCUEETTE. 1-16 SAJOUS. black heat is exceedingly painful. White heat, therefore, should alwaysbe employed for superficial applications. The cauterizations should always be begun in the anterior portionsof the nasal cavity, so that the anterior hyperesthesia will not be presentwhen the posterior parts are examined, and thus conceal the sensitivenessor convey a wrong idea as to its location. The septum should be ascarefull}^ examined as the turbinated bones, and any spot of evendoubtful hypergesthesia cauterized. Three or four spots in each cavity can be cauterized at one sitting,and it is best to locate them some distance apart. A sensitive spot beingfound in the upper part of the anterior area, for instance, and cauterized,the next spot should be looked for in the lower part of the septum, short, tiie object should be to avoid large superficial abrasions,numerous small ones healing much faster and producing no disagreeableafter-effects. In the
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