. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . ntraction of the affected or wasted muscles, and thusimprove their nutrition. Franklinization.—The earliest application of electricityin the treatment of disease was in the form of staticalelectricity, and although it fell into disuse, it has recently,with the perfection of modern machines, been widely re-vived. In applying statical electricity the patient maybe treated by insulation, or the so-called dry electric bath. THE CYSTOSCOPE. 171 The second method of using statical electricity is by sparksor shocks from a Leyden jar. which is charg
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . ntraction of the affected or wasted muscles, and thusimprove their nutrition. Franklinization.—The earliest application of electricityin the treatment of disease was in the form of staticalelectricity, and although it fell into disuse, it has recently,with the perfection of modern machines, been widely re-vived. In applying statical electricity the patient maybe treated by insulation, or the so-called dry electric bath. THE CYSTOSCOPE. 171 The second method of using statical electricity is by sparksor shocks from a Leyden jar. which is charged from theprime conductor of an electrical machine in motion, or bythe electric brush. McClure states that in the staticinduced current we have a means of producing muscularcontractions when failure results from the strongest faradiccurrents that can be borne by the patient. The Cystoscope.—This is an instrument employed forocular examination of the walls of the bladder, and is oneof the most important and useful of the electric-lamp Fig. Illumination o all of bladder by cystoscope. instrument-. A cystoscope consists of a beaked sound inwhich there is a telescopic arrangement, by which the innersurface of the bladder is viewed through a -mall windowof rock crystal. The lamp is enclosed in the beak of theinstrument and throws its light through another window,also of crystal, upon any part of the bladder wall. Thebladder should contain six or eight ounces of clear urineor clear water if a proper view of the walls is to be ob-tained. If the fluid is turbid or contains blood, the viewis very much obscured : if too little fluid be present in the 172 MINOR SURGERY. bladder, the beak of the instrument containing the lampis likely to become buried in the folds of mucous mem-brane and the light will be cut off, and the mucous mem-brane may be burned. The bladder may be emptied ofurine and distended with air which accomplishes the samepurpose. A certain amount of pract
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