An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . the Aran-Duchenne type from the normalmuscular fibre to its conversion into a homogeneous fatty mass (DcVelectrisation localisce, 1855). medicine, until Dr. Collins called attention to his life in 1908 ;and in his careful and sympathetic article on Duchenne, inthe New York Medical Record, he stated that when visiting thegrave, at Boulogne, he found it overgrown with weeds andthorns. HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 101 Robert Remak (1815-1865), distinguished as a worker inphysiology, histology, and embryology, made a special study ofthe actio
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . the Aran-Duchenne type from the normalmuscular fibre to its conversion into a homogeneous fatty mass (DcVelectrisation localisce, 1855). medicine, until Dr. Collins called attention to his life in 1908 ;and in his careful and sympathetic article on Duchenne, inthe New York Medical Record, he stated that when visiting thegrave, at Boulogne, he found it overgrown with weeds andthorns. HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 101 Robert Remak (1815-1865), distinguished as a worker inphysiology, histology, and embryology, made a special study ofthe action of the continuous current, and published a summaryof his work in this connection in 1858. In embryology he isknown as the originator of the terms ectoderm, endoderm andmesoderm; while in histology the non-meduHated nervefibres are also known by his name, having been first describedby him in 1838, as were the ganglion cells in the frogs heartin 1848. To Remak we also owe the first description ofascending neuritis (1861). In electrotherapy his great work. Diagram of Remaks apparatus. was a careful study of the therapeutic value of the direct, asdistinct from the induced current, especially in joint affections,such as rheumatism and gout. According to Althaus, heseems to have had an unfortunate manner of presenting hiswork to the medical public, so that at first it did not meetwith the attention it merited. Owing to the efforts ofBenedict, Althaus and others, the value of his electrothera-peutic researches was recognised, and many of his statementswhich had previously given rise to controversy received abelated acquiescence. Reference has already been made to the work of von 102 AN ESSAY ON THE Ziemssen in determining the situation of the motor points onthe surface of the body. To him is also due the carefulworking out of the effects of making and breaking currents atthe cathode and anode respectively. Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840), was the originator ofthe term, reaction of degen
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