An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . would be desirable. Now the knife for the issue, andthe ignited tinder or red-hot iron for the moxa, all have their HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 55 terrors for timid patients, and there is often the greatest un-willingness to induce patients to use such means. There are,therefore, considerable advantages in the use of a plan which,while it is perfectly competent to produce a copiously dis-charging sore, shall at the same time not excite the alarm ofthe most sensitive patient. As I believe this electric moxa, as Ihave termed it, is often o
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . would be desirable. Now the knife for the issue, andthe ignited tinder or red-hot iron for the moxa, all have their HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 55 terrors for timid patients, and there is often the greatest un-willingness to induce patients to use such means. There are,therefore, considerable advantages in the use of a plan which,while it is perfectly competent to produce a copiously dis-charging sore, shall at the same time not excite the alarm ofthe most sensitive patient. As I believe this electric moxa, as Ihave termed it, is often of very great value, I may be excusedgiving more minute directions for forming it. Order twosmall blisters the size of a shilling to be applied to any part ofthe body, one a few inches below the other ; when the cuticleis thus raised by effused serum, snip it, and apply to the onefrom whence a permanent discharge is required a piece of zincfoil, and to the other a piece of silver, connect them by acopper wire and cover them by a common water dressing and. Golding-Birds Electric Moxa. oiled silk. If the zinc plate be raised in a few hours, thesurface of the skin will look white, as if rubbed over withnitrate of silver. In forty-eight hours a decided eschar willappear, which (still keeping on the plates) will begin toseparate at the edges in four or five days. The plates maythen be removed, and the surface where the silver was appliedwill be found to be completely healed. During the whole ofthis process, if the patient complains of pain at all, it willalways be referred to the silver plate, where in fact the blisteris rapidly healing, and generally not the smallest complaintwill be made of the zinc plate, where the slough is as rapidlyforming. This little apparatus was not devised to act as amoxa originally, but was designed for a stimulant by localelectrical action and employed in cases of, , formation of issues, whether by cautery, moxa, or seton,is of course
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