An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . This page has been intentionally left blank HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 49. 50 AN ESSAY ON THE who had been partially drowned or strangled, a subject uponwhich he wrote a tract, dedicated to the Governors of theRoyal Humane Society, in 1819. His apparatus consisted ofa pile of 120 plates of copper and zinc, separated by piecesof cloth and immersed in a dilute solution of ammoniumchloride. He suggests also mechanical means for regulatingand recording the number of shocks given, such, for instance,as by a lever worked by hand, which was at
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . This page has been intentionally left blank HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 49. 50 AN ESSAY ON THE who had been partially drowned or strangled, a subject uponwhich he wrote a tract, dedicated to the Governors of theRoyal Humane Society, in 1819. His apparatus consisted ofa pile of 120 plates of copper and zinc, separated by piecesof cloth and immersed in a dilute solution of ammoniumchloride. He suggests also mechanical means for regulatingand recording the number of shocks given, such, for instance,as by a lever worked by hand, which was attached to arecording dial, or by a pendulum so arranged that, supposingthe vibrations to take place every second, the patient mayexperience in half an hour 1,800 galvanic shocks, recordedon a dial. The author of the Terrible Tractoration givesa couple of extracts from the Morning Post in his footnotes,which may be of sufficient interest to warrant their inclusionhere. The first is from the Morning Post of February 16th,1803, and is as follows :— Some curious Galvanic experiments were made on Friday last,by Professor Aldini,
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