A practical treatise on the medical & surgical uses of electricity : including localized and general faradization; localized and central galvanization; electrolysis and galvano-cautery / by Geo. M. Beard ... and A. D. Rockwell.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1875
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Credit: A practical treatise on the medical & surgical uses of electricity : including localized and general faradization; localized and central galvanization; electrolysis and galvano-cautery / by Geo. M. Beard ... and A. D. Rockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ELECTRO-PHYSIOLOGY. CHAPTER I. Relation of electro-physiology to electro-therapeutics—Ani- mal electricity. Electric fishes—Galvani and Volta—Humboldt's and Aldini's researches — Du Bois-Reymond's discoveries — Experi- ments of Trowbridge 99-110 CHAPTER II. Electrotonos, anelectrotonos, and catelectrotonos. Du Bois- Reymond's molecular theory of anelectrotonos—Effects of electrotonos —Pfliiger's contraction law 111-116 CHAPTER III. Action of electricity on the skin. Action of the faradic current— Of the galvanic current—Electio-ansesthesia 117-123 CHAPTER IV. Action of electricity on the brain and spinal cord. Galvanization of the brain—Experiments of Hitzig, Ferrier, and others 124-127 CHAPTER V. Action of electricity on the sympathetic and pneumogastric. Experiments with sphygmograph 128- 139 CHAPTER VI. Action of electricity on the nerves of special sense. Action on the optic nerve—On the auditory nerve—Brenner's researches—Action on the gustatory nerve 140-152 CHAPTER VII. Action of electricity on motor and sensory nerves and volun- tary muscles. Electro-muscular contractility—and electro-mus- cular sensibility—Increase of temperature after muscular contraction —Electro-physiological anatomy 153-169 CHAPTER VIII. Action of electricity on involuntary muscles. Experiments 170-175 CHAPTER IX. Action of electricity on the blood. Experiments 176-179