Electro-Diagnosis and Electro-Therapeutics

Electro Therapeutics

Electro-Therapeutics at Liverpool

therapeutic and Massage Department, the buildings of which have been provided by public subscription and the equipment by Sir Alexander and Lady Bicket. In so doing he was continuing the good work of his family, for it was his grandfather who laid the foundation-stone of the hospital in 1867. The new department is furnished with whirlpool, aerated, paraffin-wax and other baths, where over one h...

Conservative Gynecology and Electro-Therapeutics

So much new work has been added in this edition of Dr. Massey's book, that it may practically be considered a new work. The author sounds a useful note in stating that every uterine malformation is not a pathological entity requiring treatment; but we must insist that in some pelvic and abdominal cases, and these generally the most grave ones, there will be with the most " conservative " and ex...

Conservative Gynæcology and Electro-Therapeutics

uterine fibroids, and the present volume gives notes and diagrams of 86 cases in which as many as 64? were treated with practical success by electricity, 17 having absolutely disappeared, and 16 greatly reduced in size. Dr. Massey supports even the method of abdominal puncture of fibro-myomata, attributing the mortality of cases so treated about 1,870-75 to the scanty knowledge of antiseptics. ...

Electro-Encephalography: An Aid to Diagnosis

The attitude of the medical practitioner to pliysiolog} is necessarily utilitarian and his familiarity with the various branches of the subject varies with their usefulness, not, as a cynic would suggest, with their simplicity. It is not surprising, therefore, that electrophysiology, though attracting great academic attention, is the least familiar of laboratory studies, for until recently the ...