Download or read book Medical Electricity written by Roberts Bartholow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Medical Electricity: A Practical Treatise on the Applications of Electricity to Medicine and Surgery It would be a mere affectation of indifference which I am far from feeling, to refrain from the expression of my gratification that the publishers of this work have called on me to prepare a new edition. My gratification is the greater in that the sale of this, and other, works on Medical Electricity, afford indubitable evidence of growth in the appreciation of electricity as a remedial agent, by the medical profession in general. That this force should be utilized in therapeutics, just as any drug is employed as a remedy, is a fact of the highest importance. Besides the addition to the resources of the practitioner thus obtained, it is the one mode by which electricity may be divorced permanently from charlatanry, which has profited by it commercially, whilst it has impaired professional confidence in its utility. If electricity has real value as a remedy for disease, it is clear no physician is justified on moral grounds in ignoring it, and on commercial grounds, to neglect the employment of so useful an agent, must be regarded as an act of exceeding unwisdom. To utilize electricity has become a necessity of the times; hence, a full understanding of its principles and appliances is imperative. The accumulation of clinical facts and experiences, and the improvements in apparatus, have so simplified and facilitated the practical adaptations of the science and art to the work of the physician, that the least qualified members of the profession may achieve a considerable measure of success in practical electro-therapeutics, although unacquainted with the niceties of electrical science. As stated in the preface to the first edition, one of my purposes in preparing the work was to afford some aid in generalizing medical electricity, and that I have been able to contribute in any degree to this object has quite resigned me to the labor of composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.