Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity: Including Localized and General Faradization; Localized and General Galvanism; Franklinization; Electrolysis and Galvano-Cautery

A few weeks after the publication of the first edition of this work, in 1871, we were informed by the publishers that a new edition would be called for. From that time to the present moment much force has been expended on the thorough revision of the work in all its depart ments. As much time and toil, it is safe to say, have been given to this edition as to the first; and the work as it now stands represents our accumulated and thoroughly sifted experience from our entrance upon this specialty, as well as a full and exhaustive résumé of all that has been accomplished by other authorities everywhere.

About one year ago, while this edition was in press, we amicably dis solved the professional association that had existed for six years, and during which all our writings on this subject had appeared. This dis solution of our business relations has not affected the present work except so far as to delay somewhat its publication.

The success of the first edition of this work has far surpassed our highest hopes; and our belief is that it may have done something to raise the standard of electro-therapeutics as well as to popularize it. More than a year since, the work was translated into German by Dr. Vater, of Prague, who has confirmed all that we have claimed in regard to the efficacy of general electrization, and who has followed up the translation by a series of elaborate articles, didactic and clinical, on general electrization and central galvanization in the Allgemeine H'imer Zofln.

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