An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 93 in Paris in 1842, and there devoted himself to his life-study,electrotherapy and neurology. At first his path was beset with difficulties. A brusquemanner, coupled with shyness and diffidence in expressinghimself at consultations and meetings, was in itself no smalldisadvantage ; along with this, he was by no means areading-man, preferring to go his own way and make hisown observations, totally regardless of any previous workers. Duchenne and a patient. in the same field, an unfortunate characteristic, whic
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 93 in Paris in 1842, and there devoted himself to his life-study,electrotherapy and neurology. At first his path was beset with difficulties. A brusquemanner, coupled with shyness and diffidence in expressinghimself at consultations and meetings, was in itself no smalldisadvantage ; along with this, he was by no means areading-man, preferring to go his own way and make hisown observations, totally regardless of any previous workers. Duchenne and a patient. in the same field, an unfortunate characteristic, which onmore than one occasion landed him in useless controversy,and this in turn did not tend to facilitate matters. In additionto these personal idiosyncrasies be began to make a specialstudy of the paralytic patients in the different hospitals,aid it was here that more difficulties arose. At the time weare speaking of, the term paralysis was one of those con-venient dust-bins of ignorance, which their owners areexceedingly unwilling should be disturbed. Nothing wasknown of either the pathology or the treatment of the varied 94 AN ESSAY ON THE conditions which were hopelessly confused under this commondesignation. Once a paralytic always a paralytic, seemedto he the established formula, with possible exceptions in
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