Electrical Performance of Various Electrical Stimulators for Acupuncture Anesthesia
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Testing of electrical trancutaneous stimulators for suppressing pain.
As so many students of bioelectrical phenomenona frequently remind us, it was Luigi Galvani who first reported his experiments in applying electrical currents to contract the muscles of frogs and sheep . Numerous attempts have since been undertaken to utilize that phenomenon for a variety of therapeutic purposes, many of them quite successful . One of the most notable is the heart pacemaker. El...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAPANES JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0019-1736,2432-9940
DOI: 10.4286/ikakikaigakuzassi.44.11_589