An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . oncentrated polar action. Such thoroughforms of treatment are not always required, particularly^ when it is 30 G-U MASSEY. merely a bleeding tendency rather than a bleeding surface, as in menor-rhagia. At such times the covered elastic platinum electrode may beused, and, while causing less iiritation, it may be equally effective. The intermenstrual period must be selected for the applications, asin these chronic cases treatment during the period usually aggravatesthe flow, and the frequency
An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . oncentrated polar action. Such thoroughforms of treatment are not always required, particularly^ when it is 30 G-U MASSEY. merely a bleeding tendency rather than a bleeding surface, as in menor-rhagia. At such times the covered elastic platinum electrode may beused, and, while causing less iiritation, it may be equally effective. The intermenstrual period must be selected for the applications, asin these chronic cases treatment during the period usually aggravatesthe flow, and the frequency should be two to four times per month. METRITIS WITH DISPLACEMENTS AND —Metritis, with fixation of the uterus from shortening ofone or more ligaments, or from adhesions due to pelvic peritonitis, isoften amenable to electricity applied by the vaginal method, particularlyif iodine in Lugols solution or potassium iodide is also used by cata-phoresis. If the cataphoretic method is employed, the positive pole isessential within the vagina, the electrode shown at Fig. 6 being covered. Fig. 5.—Apostolis Electeobes. at its extremity with absorbent cotton, smoothly wound, as with anapplicator, and saturated with the solution, the whole being then insertedwithin the vagina through a Goodell or other bivalve speculum. If nomedicament is used the negative is preferable as active pole, being some-what more sorbefacient. The indifferent pole is a cla}^ pad or equivalentlarge conducting surface on the abdomen. A current of 40 to ]00 milli-amperesis turned on through the controller and maintained five to eightminutes daily. In some cases it is well to pass a mild secondary currentsimultaneously through the circuit by means of a combiner. Celluliticdeposits disappear rapidly under this method, the less-organized adhe-sions give way, and a uterus that has been firmly fixed for years mayshow increased mobility in a few weeks. A varying amount of fixationis ge
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