Excerpt from Medical Electricity: Embracing Electro-Physiology and Electricity as a Therapeutic, With Special Reference to Practical Medicine; Showing the Most Approved Apparatus, Methods and Rules, for the Medical Uses of Electricity in the Treatment of Nervous Diseases

The author, being profoundly convinced of the efficacy of electric currents as a remedy, capable of producing, often, a radical cure, especially in nervous affections, bespeaks a generous and impartial reception by our American medi cal world, of what is already achieved for and in electro-physiology and electro therapeutics i. E., as to what relates, in a scientific sense, to the medical uses of Electricity.

When Physiology is usually treated of as a science, and presented as a part of the foundation of a thorough medical education, then, of course, it embraces the whole organic nature. All classes of organized beings and organisms have there an appropriate chapter, according to the mode of development, &c. But here we give place to one grand phase of physiology. And pathology, as a some what new, but soon to be realized, indispensable help-science to the heal ing art. All medical practitioners may not wish to give their time and attention, personally, to the employment of any electric apparatus; and but few may wish to make those diseases called Neuralgies and Palsies their exclusive practice; but still, no one member of an educated medical profession can now adays be uninformed in normal and abnormal nervo-electric phenomena (that is, in electro-physiology and electro - pathology) without discredit to himself and injustice to his patient.

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