. The treatment of disease by electric currents : a hand-book of plain instructions for the general practitioner . full of peril—what would he then have given if the hand with which such apressure was made formed one electrode of a good, reliableinduction apparatus, especially if the vitalizing current fromit furnished a sedative force to every sentient nerve involved,a stimulating force to every motor nerve, and to every muscu-lar fibre engaged? If this new force, this sensible increase ofpower, gratefully recognized as such by the patient, soothedher pain, refreshed her muscles, restored her
. The treatment of disease by electric currents : a hand-book of plain instructions for the general practitioner . full of peril—what would he then have given if the hand with which such apressure was made formed one electrode of a good, reliableinduction apparatus, especially if the vitalizing current fromit furnished a sedative force to every sentient nerve involved,a stimulating force to every motor nerve, and to every muscu-lar fibre engaged? If this new force, this sensible increase ofpower, gratefully recognized as such by the patient, soothedher pain, refreshed her muscles, restored her strength andwaning confidence, would not the physician, from the verydepths of a thankful heart, have been ready and willing toexclaim : Electricity stands unrivalled as an exytocic ? {Baird^ Post-partum Hemorrhage due to Atonic State.—In a caseof this kind intra-uterine interference may be wnsely reservedand the routine recommendations of obstetrical text booksmay be considered subordinate to the prompt and simpleraction of electric currents. I. Place an ordinary sponge or felt covered, flat POSITIVE. Fig. 189. Sponge-covered flat electrode. 472 OBSTETRICAL USES OF ELECTRIC CURRENTS. about the size of the pahn of the hand, beneath the sacrumand connect it with the positive pole of the portable inductioncoil apparatus which every obstetrician should consider asmuch a part of his equipment as a pair of forceps. Connectwith the negative pole a sponge-covered hand electrode and pro-menade it slowly over every portion of the abdomen over thefundus making firm pressure down upon the uterus. Both Fig. 190. Sponge-covered hand electroue. electrodes should be moistened with hot water and the handelectrode lubricated by rubbing it two or three times overa cake of toilet soap. Employ the rapidly interrupted current from the combinedNo. 32 and No. 21 wire secondary coils and quickly increasethe current strength from zero until it produces effective con-tractions, which sh
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