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The medical application of electricity (1860)

Channing, William F.(William Francis),1820-1901 · Boston : Thomas Hall · leaf 241

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urto twelve galvanicpairs, through thehead, in an applica-tion for auditory pa-ralysis, in 1849, Ifound that a peculiar faintness and loss of conscious-ness, more or less complete, was induced; and Ihave since repeatedly made the same observation.Dr. Edward H. Clarke, in making the same… … PAINLESS SURGERY. 233 suggests the use of the galvanic current as a gen-eral anaesthetic agent. 370. The numbing effect of a rapid successionof electro-magnetic shocks is a matter of com-mon experience. Dr. Parker, of Bill erica, informsme that in two cases of strangury of long contin-uance, and…

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