. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . vertebral cartilages. The disease is probably due tocauses similar to those which induce rheumatoid arthritis. Itmay or may not be associated with a rheumatic history, and thecourse of the disease is always to progress from bad to deformity is characteristic, the back being graduallycurved forward as the cartilages become thinner. No case of this affection, so far as the writer can ascertain,has ever recovered. The plan of treating rheumatoid arthritisand the success with other spinal aff
. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . vertebral cartilages. The disease is probably due tocauses similar to those which induce rheumatoid arthritis. Itmay or may not be associated with a rheumatic history, and thecourse of the disease is always to progress from bad to deformity is characteristic, the back being graduallycurved forward as the cartilages become thinner. No case of this affection, so far as the writer can ascertain,has ever recovered. The plan of treating rheumatoid arthritisand the success with other spinal affections caused the writer toadvise in these cases the trial of the static wave-current andsparks to the spine. This should be done in conjunction with a THERAPEUTICS OF INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS. 93 plaster jacket beneath which the electrodes may be readilyplaced. The current should be administered daily for two orthree weeks, employing an electrode two inches wide by eightor ten inches long, placing it first from above downward andgiving as long a spark-gap as the patient will permit without. Fg- 44- discomfort from the muscular contractions or pain over an in-flammatory area which will usually be from five to seven inchesin length; then place it from below upward, employing thesame rule as to length of spark-gap. These administrationsshould be for fifteen minutes each, at the close of which a fewlong sparks may be administered parallel with and near thespinous processes. This treatment should be kept up daily forthe first two or three weeks and upon alternate days for a longperiod—until the active process seems to be stayed and thepatient, if possible, is able to get along without the plasterjacket. 94 STATIC ELECTRICITY. The success that will attend this procedure is so far an openquestion. The writer, however, is observing the treatmentwith excellent prospects of benefit. As there are no contra-indications and the procedure promises much, there can be nomistake to endeavor
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