An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . ocess to the face, thejaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoiningmuscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually the subsequent parts of the process the right hand was raisedand clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion. It appeared to the uninformed part of the bystanders as if thewretched man was on the eve of being restored to life. This HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 51 however was impossible, as several of his friends, who were nearthe scaffold, had violently pulled his legs in order t
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . ocess to the face, thejaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoiningmuscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually the subsequent parts of the process the right hand was raisedand clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion. It appeared to the uninformed part of the bystanders as if thewretched man was on the eve of being restored to life. This HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 51 however was impossible, as several of his friends, who were nearthe scaffold, had violently pulled his legs in order to put a morespeedy termination to his sufferings. Aldini* recommends the use of galvanism in order toprevent premature burial, and both from his writings andfrom references to him by others, the unfairness of associatinghim, even in jest, with such impostors as Perkins is some extent he seems to have studied English in theschool of Dr. Johnson, since he refers to a puppy used inone of his experiments as a young quadruped of the Frontispiece of la riblt Tractoration. London, 1803, 2nd Ed. Haygarth of Rath, and Smith of Bristol, finally explodedthe Tractor quackery by producing the same effects withwooden instruments. About 1809, there was at least one Electrical Institute inLondon, namely, that of Lowndes, in St. Pauls was under the advice of Buchan, the author of the oncepopular Domestic Medicine, that Lowndes came to London,and in the preface to the 1809 edition of the book is thefollowing :— It ( the book) is also, in order to render it still morevaluable, enriched with some useful engravings, illustrative of *Aldini was Galvanis nephew. 52 AN ESSAY ON THE important subjects; one is a View of the splendid ElectricalMachine of Mr. Lowndes, of St. Pauls Churchyard, the largestin this country, and the most successful yet employed in the cureof diseases. It has properly a place in this work, as, under auspices, Mr. Lownde
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