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A Practical treatise on the medical and surgical uses of electricity : including localized and general electrization

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"A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity" in brown and blue font that mimics vintage newspapers

A hand holding a rod with a negative charge over a bell shaped jar with a positive symbol on a node sticking out of it

A hand holding a negative charged wire to a positive charged cell battery

Four cells with wires connecting the cells and arrows indicating the direction of the electric current

Two lines: the top one is marked +A on the left and B- on the right; the bottom one is marked M- on the left and N+ on the right

Two metal discs set up vertically with two coils of wires connecting to handheld electrodes or dynamos

Three metal cylinders, with coils of wire connecting the middle one to the other two apparatuses.

Two electrodes are held against the face of a man. His left eyelid is shut and his mouth is drawn to one side in a grimace

A hand holding two electrodes with pointed ends against another hand

Two hands holding wired electrodes against a thigh

Two electrodes held near the back and under the knee of a leg. The foot is brought upward and outward.

A man with an electrode held to the back of his neck

A man with an electrode held against the nape of his neck and another held under his armpit

A man is seated next to a table with a batter and pair of handheld electrodes. A doctor has one hand on the electrodes and the other hand against the man's head

A man seated near a table with a battery on the table and wires hooked up to the battery. A doctor holds wired electrodes to the seated man's back

A patient seated next to a table holding a battery with wires coming out of it. A doctor holds wired electrodes and is applying one to the patient's stomach

The doctor holds a wired electrode to a patient's upper thigh. The electrode is wired to a battery or generator on the nearby table.

A diagram of the human body from the back with labeled nerves and muscles

The left image depicts the electric brush closed and retracted into the handle; the right image depicts the electric brush opened and fanned out

Two electrodes are placed on opposite sides of the lower body while an insulated uterine electrode is applied to the cervix

The intra-uterine electrode is long, curved, and tapered with a small bulb at the end. The uterine electrode is shorter and less curved with a larger ball at the end.

Four cylinders with tubes and wires wired to them

A box of many cells wired to two electrodes

An apparatus made of wheels and a crank handle

Various handles and cutting loops to be used with the electric cautery

Title: A Practical treatise on the medical and surgical uses of electricity : including localized and general electrization
Creator: Beard, George M. (George Miller); Rockwell, A.D. (Alphonso David)
Location: New York
Publisher: William Wood & Co.
Date: 1871
Format: xxxv, 698 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: Electrosurgery -- 19th century; Electric Stimulation Therapy -- 19th century
Identifier: https://spokane.wustl.edu:443/record=b7445437~S3

Item sets: Monuments of Medicine Collection

Site pages: Shocking Treatments and New Technologies; Electrothereupeutics; Electric Surgery

Media: Exhibit label; Fig. 4; Fig. 5; Fig. 8; Fig. 15; Fig. 16; Fig. 17; Fig. 42. Faradization of the Facial Nerve and Muscles; Fig. 43. Muscular Faradization with metallic electrodes; Fig. 44. Faradization of the Muscles of the Thing, contraction of the quadriceps; Fig. 45. Faradization of Popliteal Nerve and Peroneal Muscles; Fig. 46. Spinal-cord-brachial plexus current; Fig. 47. Spinal-cord-median nerve current; Fig. 48; Fig. 49; Fig. 52. General Faradization -- Application to the stomach; General Faradization -- Application to the Lower Extremities; Fig. 55. Electro-therapeautical Anatomy of the Human Body; Fig. 58. Electric brush; Fig. 74. Faradization of the Uterus; Fig. 75. Intra-Uterine Electrode; Fig. 76. Uterine Electrode; Fig. 90. Middeldorpf's Apparatus for Galvano-cautery, with Reincke's Electrodes and Wire Loops; Fig. 95. Divisible Combination of Sixty Smee's Elements; Fig. 96. Holtz's Electrophorous Machine; Fig. 97 through Fig. 102. Depicting various burners and cutting-loops for Galvano-Cautery