An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . Abbe Nollett. from electrification, though he adds that he had also notnoticed any ill effect. That no ill effect was recorded from electrification is alittle remarkable, in view of the powerful shocks given and thestupid methods of administering them. Thus, in 1755, Leroypublished the accounts of some experiments conducted by himupon a youth suffering from amaurosis. The shock used wasfrom a Leyden Jar, the coatings of which were connected to 28 AN ESSAY ON THE two wires, one wound round the patients head and the otherround his leg. W
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . Abbe Nollett. from electrification, though he adds that he had also notnoticed any ill effect. That no ill effect was recorded from electrification is alittle remarkable, in view of the powerful shocks given and thestupid methods of administering them. Thus, in 1755, Leroypublished the accounts of some experiments conducted by himupon a youth suffering from amaurosis. The shock used wasfrom a Leyden Jar, the coatings of which were connected to 28 AN ESSAY ON THE two wires, one wound round the patients head and the otherround his leg. With each discharge of the jar the blind man. From Die elcctrische Median of Johann Gottlieb Schaffer, the machine worked by a bow. saw a flame passing before his eyes, and heard a report likethat of a gun. On sending the shock through his head from HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 29 before backwards (one metal plate being fixed on his forehead,the other on the occiput, and then connected as required to thejar), the patient reported that each shock caused him to seecrowds of people and such-like appearances. Precisely whatinduced the patient to endure this is not at once obvious, butprobably the visual impressions suggested the possibility ofrecovery of sight. In England, Patrick Brydone, although not a medical man,added amateur electrotherapy to his other accomplishments,and, in 1757, published a tract on An Instance of the ElectricalVirtue in the Cure of a Palsy. In this instance, the operatorchronicles the administration of six hundred severe shocks. The credit of first protesting against these violent shocks isdue to Rich
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