An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . Priestleys machine, fitted with adjustable supports for globe and conductor (A) collects the electricity by the flexible wire (/), andis furnished with a series of perforations to allow of the introductionof wires for experimental purposes. (From Priestleys History ofElectricity, 3rd Ed , 1775.) by Cuneus and Musschenbroek at Leyden, in 1746, andalthough the priority unquestionably belongs to von Kleist,the piece of apparatus became known as the Leyden Jar. It HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 17 is of interest to read the records o
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . Priestleys machine, fitted with adjustable supports for globe and conductor (A) collects the electricity by the flexible wire (/), andis furnished with a series of perforations to allow of the introductionof wires for experimental purposes. (From Priestleys History ofElectricity, 3rd Ed , 1775.) by Cuneus and Musschenbroek at Leyden, in 1746, andalthough the priority unquestionably belongs to von Kleist,the piece of apparatus became known as the Leyden Jar. It HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 17 is of interest to read the records of some of the early experi-ments on the action of electricity upon the human subject,since we are able to repeat them ourselves, and to compareour own observations with the accounts given by the early. Pieter van Musschenbroek.(From a bust in the University of Utrecht.) observers. Thus Musschenbroek, in communicating toReaumur the account of the shock he received from his veryprimitive Leyden Jar, states that he felt himself struck in thearms, shoulder and breast; he lost his breath, and it was twodays before he recovered from the shock and fright. He c 18 AN ESSAY ON THE added that not for the Crown of France itself would he exposehimself to such another most extravagant description of the effects of a shock
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