. Practical electricity in medicine and surgery. ied organs, as the cervix uteri,clitoris, labia (elephantiasis), penis, tongue, etc.; openingabscesses, boils, or carbuncles; stimulating healthy granulationsin fistulous tracts, or dividing the bridge of tissue between afistula and the surface; removing intra-laryngeal, intra-pharyn- GALVANO-CAUTERY ; STATIC INSULATION. 267 goal, intra-nasal, and infra-uterine growths; cauterizing exposedand painful nerves, as in carious teeth; in short, wherever thehot iron can be used to advantage over the knife, the galvano-cautery should be emplojed. STATIC
. Practical electricity in medicine and surgery. ied organs, as the cervix uteri,clitoris, labia (elephantiasis), penis, tongue, etc.; openingabscesses, boils, or carbuncles; stimulating healthy granulationsin fistulous tracts, or dividing the bridge of tissue between afistula and the surface; removing intra-laryngeal, intra-pharyn- GALVANO-CAUTERY ; STATIC INSULATION. 267 goal, intra-nasal, and infra-uterine growths; cauterizing exposedand painful nerves, as in carious teeth; in short, wherever thehot iron can be used to advantage over the knife, the galvano-cautery should be emplojed. STATIC ELECTRICITY. The description of the static machine has been given inearlier chapters. The methods of using this form of electricityrequire, however, some further amplification. Franklinization, under which term we understand the thera-peutic application of static electricity, is employed by the follow-ing methods:— Static insulation, or static charge; the indirect and directspark; static shock, static breeze, and static induced current. Fig. 216.—Static Insulation. Static Insulation.—The patient is placed upon the insulatedplatform, and his body, or the stool upon which he sits, con-nected with the machine by a chain. The chain must not touchthe floor. The other pole of the machine is then grounded byattaching the chain to the gas or water fixture, or simply allowing 263 PRACTICAL ELECTRICITY IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY. the free end to rest upon the uncarpeted floor. The poles ofthe machine are now separated and the machine put in rapidmotion. The patient becomes charged with static electricity,which escapes as he leaves the insulated platform and approacheshis finger-tips to other persons or some article of furniture, orthe door. Fig. 216 shows the method of performing thisinsulation. Indirect and Direct Spark.—If the patient remains seatedupon the platform charged as before, and a metal-ball electrode
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