. Medical electricity; a practical treatise on the applications of electricity to medicine and surgery. Paralysis and atrophy of first dorsal interosseous muscle. The behavior of the muscles has been already described;the faradic contractility disappears, and an abnormal readi-ness to contract to galvanism is developed. After a timethe galvanic excitability declines to normal, and the faradicexcitability is restored. We owe these important observa-tions on the phenomena of the reactions of degenerationto There is universal agreement as to the value ofelectricity in the peripheral paralys
. Medical electricity; a practical treatise on the applications of electricity to medicine and surgery. Paralysis and atrophy of first dorsal interosseous muscle. The behavior of the muscles has been already described;the faradic contractility disappears, and an abnormal readi-ness to contract to galvanism is developed. After a timethe galvanic excitability declines to normal, and the faradicexcitability is restored. We owe these important observa-tions on the phenomena of the reactions of degenerationto There is universal agreement as to the value ofelectricity in the peripheral paralyses to restore the muscles, 1 Deutsch. Archiv fur klin. Medicin, vol. , 1868. ELECTRICITY IN THE PARALYSES. 197 and to prevent deformity (Fig. 79). Duchenne1 especiallydetails many examples of wasting and deformity of themembers, restored by suitable electrical treatment (). He prefers, as is usual, the faradic applications. Headmits that those muscles whose faradic contractility is but Fig. Stimulation of the hypothenar group. little affected recover speedily under faradic treatment, butthat muscles having lost their power of response to thefaradic current soon undergo atrophy. He advises faradi-zation, using at first strong, rapidly interrupted currents,the applications being ten to fifteen minutes in duration,daily, and afterward weaker currents (Fig. 80). Although Fir,. 8r /£>
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