The Journal of Electro-Therapeutics (Volume 13) (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. 1895. Excerpt: ... To resume, it seems that in this case the paralysis was due to the lightning alone, and that hysteria played no part in it. It is not unreasonable to suppose that the shock of the lightning stroke may cause a concussion of the nervous system sufficient to produce the functional or dynamic disturbances which have been observed clinically, just as it may in other cases awaken a neurosis which has been latent up to that time.--Archives d'Electrkite" Mtdicale. THE ELECTRICAL TREATMENT OF NERVOUS VOMITING, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INTRACTABLE VOMITING OF PREGNANCY BY G. GAUTIER AND J. LARAT. Various treatments have been suggested for intractable nervous emesis, and the long list of therapeutic procedures recommended, especially for the vomiting of pregnancy, increases daily; yet, as Pinard says, " nothing can be prescribed to-day except with the idea that it may succeed. We believe that electricity is one of the most powerful remedies, if the method and precautions are followed which we use, and which were described by Semmola in 1878. Brenner successfully electrified a case of stomachic irritability with pyrosis by placing an eloctrode on each side of the neck, using the continuous current. Neither the polarity nor the quantity was given. The method which we think should be followed in these cases was originated by Semmola. Since 1868 he systematically electrified all his cases of intractable nervous emesis, both hospital and private, and considers this treatment so infallible that he uses it for diagnostic purposes. From the Revue Internationale a"Electrotherapie, April, 1895. The cessation is, he considers, proof of its being only symptomatic, whether the organic lesion be in the stomach or elsewhere. In support of this theory he has published some ve...