Electricity in its relations to practical medicineD. Appleton and Company, 1869 - 497 páginas |
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Página ix - It is the duty of every physician to study the action of electricity, to become acquainted with its value in therapeutics, and to follow the improvements that are being made in the apparatus for its application in medicine, that he may be able to choose the one best adapted to the treatment of individual cases, and to test a remedy fairly and without prejudice, which already, especially in nervous diseases, has been used with the best results, and which promises to yield an abundant harvest in a...
Página 242 - ... itself to the whole body, causing it to turn at every step toward the one or the other side. The extensor power of the leg was very limited ; the dorsal flexion of the foot and the extension of the toes were not in the power of the patients, and but a slight adduction of the toes possible ; the patients trod upon the outer borders of the feet, and in the Mm.