The medical use of electricity : with special reference to general electrization as a tonic in neuralgia, rheumatism, dyspepsia, chorea, paralysis, and other affections associated with general debility : with illustrative cases / by Geo. M. Beard, and A.D. Rockwell.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The medical use of electricity : with special reference to general electrization as a tonic in neuralgia, rheumatism, dyspepsia, chorea, paralysis, and other affections associated with general debility : with illustrative cases / by Geo. M. Beard, and A.D. Rockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    general condition so decidedly improved, that he shortly- after resumed the full exercise of his pulpit duties. PROLAPSUS UTERI. Dr. Seller, of Paris, published a work in 1860, enti- tled '■^ Galvanization pa?- Injluence,'' in which he reported a number of cases of uterine displacement that had been reheved or cured by electricit_y. In prolapsus uteri general electrization is very often of great service, chiefly by its tonic effects on the sys- tem at large, and on the walls of the vagina. All gynecologists will agree that prolapsus uteri is usually associated with relaxation of the vaginal walls, and also with general debility, and that whatever will give tone to the system and to the weakened parts must be of service. Miss T , an unmarried lady, aged 30, applied for tieatment for falling of the womb of the second degree, from which she had suffered for nearly six months. Previous to the first symptoms of prolapsus, persistent leucorrhoea had annoyed her for some time, and had con- tinued up to the day she came to us. She complained also of some menorrhagia, and this, together with the constant leucorrhoea, had deprived the vagina of its tone. These condiiions, however, were evidently asso- ciated with no organic uterine disease; but her general health was quite feeble. If it were a case for elec- tricity at all, it was plain that >he needed its tonic influ- ence. We commenced, therefore, with mild, general apphcations, increasing the strength of the current