Nerve-Vibration and Excitation as Agents in the Treatment of Functional Disorder and Organic Disease (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... 125 CONCLUSION. I HAVE now briefly, and, I fear, very inadequately reviewed the leading points of the case I have' to lay before the profession in support of my plea for nerve-vibration, at first, of course, in cases in which other remedies and methods of treatment have already been tried and failed. It is a severe but fitting ordeal through which any new therapeutic agent must pass, that it should be put to the test of being employed for the relief or cure of disorders which have been found to resist all the received modes of treatment. It is in such cases only, that I have yet myself employed nerve-vibration, and I shall be well content if others judge of its value by evidence collected on the same line of investigation. It would not be justifiable to omit or postpone recourse to such tried remedies as we already possess, but after all these are found to be useless, I venture to urge that the method I suggest should be accorded a trial. In making choice of the several classes of cases in respect to which I now find myself in a position to recommend the use of nerve-vibration, I have been influenced solely by my experience of that remedy. I do not, because I cannot, strongly urge recourse to the method in a considerable number of troublous affections in the treatment of which I have not yet had any large experience of its use. Among these may be mentioned hysteria and the mimetic diseases, and disorders of the sexual organs, particularly impotence and the affection known, erroneously I believe, as spermatorrhoea. I have had cases of the two last-mentioned diseases, some of which have been and are, greatly benefited, one or two apparently cured, but a much larger number of observations than I have yet been able to make, would be necessary to justify any pr...