Journal of Electrotherapeutics (Volume 17) (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. 1899. Excerpt: ... The battery can be used for electrolytic work, such as the removal of superfluous hair, warts, moles, etc., and has for that purpose an electric needle and holder, epilation forceps, and magnifying glass. To the battery are added several sponge and metal electrodes, one roller electrode, one metallic brush, and one interrupting handle, all which are fastened between strong clamps to the inner side of the cover. TRANSLATIONS. ELECTRICITY IX OCULAR THERAPEUTICS. Professor Silex, in the Revue Medicale d'Anvers, enumerates the various uses of electricity in the treatment of diseases of the eye. First of all he mentions the good results of electrolysis for the removal of irritating eyelashes. He injects under the skin of the pupils a 2 per cent, solution of cocaine. For the active electrode (cathode) he uses a fine sewing needle, and employs a current of 2 or 3 ma. for twenty or thirty seconds. He claims no marked results from the electrolysis of angiomata occupying the whole of an eyelid or penetrating into the orbit. Silex uses the galvano-cautery not only for ulcers, but also for keratitis, striated and vesicular. He uses the constant current for muscular and nervous difficulties and for those arising in the central nervous system. In view of the fact that many neurologists claim that the current will not pass through the brain. Silex undertook some experiments which throw light on the subject. With a head taken directly from a cadaver, he bored a hole in the parietal base, and introduced into the cerebral substance a needle 1 1-2 mm. thick and 10 cm. long, insulated with shellac for 3 cm. The other electrode consisted of a sponge, wrung out of hot water, applied to either temple. A current of 15 ma. was used and a horizantal galvanometer was interposed in ...