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Title: The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bennett, Homer Clark, 1865-1928
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Electricity in medicine Ohm's law X-rays Electricity Electricity X-Rays Electromagnetic Phenomena Electric Stimulation Therapy
Publisher: Lima (Ohio) : Literary Dept. of the National College of Electro-Therapeutics
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ive galvanism? POSITIVEIs acidHardensDenutritivePromotes a clotIviberates oxygenProduces anaemiaSlows circulationAllays excitabilityDecreases local heatRetards hemorrhageRepels soluble saltsDessens inflammationDecreases vascularityHas a drying influenceI^essens nerve irritabilityIs a vaso-motor contractorUsed in acute conditionsIs coagulating to albumenIntensifies scars and strictures in canalsDecomposes all metals (except gold, platinum and aluminum) NEGATIVEIs alkalineSoftensNutritive Dissolves and absorbs a clotIviberates hydrogenProduces hypersemiaQuickens circulationIncreases excitabilityIncreases local heatIncreases hemorrhageAttracts soluble saltsAggravates inflammationIncreases vascularityHas a moistening influenceIncreases nerve irritabilityIs vaso-motor dilatorUsed in chronic conditionsIs liquifying to albumenDissolves scars and strictures in canalsDoes not decompose any metals (except aluminum) 214 THE KI^KCTRO-THBRAPEUTIC GUIDE ANATOMICAL TOPOGRAPHY IN ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS
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(Cut after Gray. Explanation from Haynes). This illustration shows the principal landmarks for locating the inter-nal organs with sufficient accuracy for the purposes of electro-therapeutics. C. C. marks the clavicle. The ribs are numbered so correspond with the numbers at their spinaltermini. It is useful to remember that the sternal end of each rib lies ona lower level than its vertebra. A line drawn horizontally backward fromthe middle of the third costal cartilage at its junction with the sternumwould touch the body, not of the third dorsal but of the sixth dorsal. Thisvaries a little according to the length of the sternum. The eleventh and twelfth ribs can be felt even in corpulent persons,sloping downward. The head of the last rib is on a level with the spineof the dorsal vertebra. THE EIvECTRO-THERAPEUTlC GUIDE 215 The nipples (of male) usually lie between the fourth and fifth ribs,about three-fourths of an inch external to their cartilage. The right huig, directly in front, is

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