In 1863, Desmond Fitz-gerald, the editor of The Electrician, a popular electrical magazine, responded to his readers' frequent requests for more information about the medical uses of electricity with an editorial on the subject. He claimed that electrotherapy was by then a well-attested form of medical treatment and singled out Dr Golding Bird as one of those "eminent Physicians" who had been r...

Electrical current flow appears to be integral to the healing of collagen containing tissue, i.e., bone, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and skin. Accordingly, it is reasonable to hypothesize that externally applied electrical fields should be able to enhance healing, especially in conditions that have resisted more standard treatments. Nevertheless, applications of electrotherapeutics is challen...

The fact, that this is the 5th edition of a book which was first published in L905, speaks for the popularity in which it is held, and for the want it has evidently supplied. Before criticising this edition it would be well to point that, in it many additions have been made and alterations undertaken. For instance, the recent advances' in the diagnosis and treatment of syphilis have naturally n...

This new edition of a well-known book has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date in accordance with the rapid advances made in this department of medicine during the Great War. The book in its present form is divided into five sections, vis., thermotherapy, hydrotherapy, massotherapy (including medical gymnastics), the rest cure, electrotherapeutics, and dieto-therapy. A new chapter has...

The 22nd International Symposium on Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics is the annual meeting and the main scientific event of research and teaching activity of the International College of Acupuncture & ElectroTherapeutics Research. The meeting is organized by Professor Yoshiaki Omura, Founder and Director of the College, Director of Medical Research in the Heart Disease Research Foundation. ...