This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...localized excessive sensitiveness not unfrequently found in hysterical cases, particularly in the spinal region. Tremor, whether general or local, is sometimes largely relieved by insulating the patient, and charging him with positive electricity for a period of twenty minutes to half an hour. Other ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...localized excessive sensitiveness not unfrequently found in hysterical cases, particularly in the spinal region. Tremor, whether general or local, is sometimes largely relieved by insulating the patient, and charging him with positive electricity for a period of twenty minutes to half an hour. Other applications failing, I would advise always in cases similar to the above, a fair trial, say half a dozen sittings, of Franklinization. There is a special method of electrization originated by Dr. Radcliffe, and which has in it very much to recommend it both in theory and practice. The investigations of this distinguished physician in animal electricity lead him to the conclusion that the primary condition of this electricity is not current but static The state of muscle and nerve during rest is that of charge, during action of discharge. The sarcolemma is proved by many experiments to be sufficiently non-conducting to allow it to act as a dielectric, and so also the neurolemma. Positive electricity having its origin in the molecular reaction of the blood and elsewhere, is developed on the outside of the sarcolemma or neurolemma, and as their sheaths are dielectric the effect of this development is the induction of an equivalent charge of negative electricity on their insides. Hence the sheaths of the muscular and nerve fibres become charged precisely as a Leyden jar is charged. Hence, also, the particular view of muscular action which Dr. Radcliffe advocates, namely this, that the elongation of muscular fibre is caused by the elastic sarcolemma being compressed at right angles to its surface by the mutual attraction of the two opposite electrical charges disposed on its two surfaces (an idea which is proved to be practicable by a most...
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