Therapeutics; or, the art of healing / By Thomas Marryat.

  • Marryat, Thomas, 1730-1792
Date:
1785
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Credit: Therapeutics; or, the art of healing / By Thomas Marryat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I N T R O D U C T I O N. 6. Health depends on an equal diflribution of a fufficient * * quantity of this nervous influence, with a proportionate elaflicity of the mufcular fibres. 7. Every diforder is caufed by, or attended with a re- dundance, deficiency, or unequal diflribution of the ner- vous influence. \ That ele&ricity may be applied to good purpofe, in feveral rebellious difeafes, is a certain fafl, though it mufl be owned, that the remedy is a precarious one. The V author has been frequently difappointed, from its effefls, in thofe cafes in which it appeared molt likely to fucceed ; \ \ fuch, for inflance, as paralytic affeflions. It is mofl to be depended on in the almofl inflantaneous removal of painful diforders, and of thofe which originate from obflruflions. He fhall only obferve, further, on this fubjecl, that from no fmall number of experiments, he can fafely affirm, that the mofl efficacious method of ufing it is, to infulate the patient, and to draw fparks from the affecled part; and that,