An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . heating powerof electric currents, which I have been able to discover, is inBecquerels Trade dc Pelectricite (1835), where he mentionsthat Fabre-Palaprat had succeeded in cauterising deeply-seated tissues by the introduction of a platinum needle. Aswas pointed out by von Middeldorpff, in 1854, there is clearlysome mistake in the account of the procedure. In 1841 Recamier and Pravaz attempted the removal ofcarcinoma of the cervix uteri by the galvanic ecraseur, and in1842 Dr. Ousel, of St. Petersburg, submitted a memoir on 71 AN ESSAY O
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . heating powerof electric currents, which I have been able to discover, is inBecquerels Trade dc Pelectricite (1835), where he mentionsthat Fabre-Palaprat had succeeded in cauterising deeply-seated tissues by the introduction of a platinum needle. Aswas pointed out by von Middeldorpff, in 1854, there is clearlysome mistake in the account of the procedure. In 1841 Recamier and Pravaz attempted the removal ofcarcinoma of the cervix uteri by the galvanic ecraseur, and in1842 Dr. Ousel, of St. Petersburg, submitted a memoir on 71 AN ESSAY ON THE Ihe subject to the Academie de Medecine of Paris. In 1846Heider, of Vienna, employed the galvano-cautery for thedestruction of nerves in dental operations, and after thepublication of his paper many other surgeons used it on alimited scale. In 1850, Nelaton, for whose work Regnaulddevised a special battery, employed the galvano-cauterysuccessfully for the removal of growths which were difficultof access, such, for example, as those occurring in the. Auguste Nelaton. pharynx. Nelaton was also successful in treating erectilevascular tumours by the same means. The first use of the galvano-cautery in this country was byJohn Marshall, assistant surgeon to University CollegeHospital, on Nov. 5th, 1850. The case was one of a chronicfistula in the cheek, which ensued upon a local suppurationand obstinately resisted treatment for a year. Various opera-tions had been tried, and it was eventually decided to cauteriseit. To use an ordinary cautery in a long, narrow, windingfistulous track seemed impossible, and some other expedient HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 75 had to be devised. In Marshalls own words, It thenoccurred to me that a piece of platinum wire, which might beeasily passed through the narrowest and most tortuous passage,might, by being made to form part of the circuit of a power-ful galvanic battery, be so intensely heated throughout itswhole length, while still lying in the
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