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" 15 99 99-1/5
Miss R., �t. 27, was a fair case of hysterical conditions; over-use of
chloral and bromides; anorexia and loss of flesh and color.
Thermometer in mouth.
Before Electricity. After Electricity.
May 15 100 100 }
} General faradization
" 16 100 100 } for fifteen minutes.
}
" 17 100-1/5 100-2/5 }
" 18 98-2/5 98-3/5 } General faradization,
} fifteen minutes, also of
" 19 99-4/5 100-1/10 } arm muscles, twenty minutes.
May 20 100-1/10 100
General faradization, ten
" 22 99-2/5 99-3/5 minutes; arms and legs
twenty minutes.
" 26 99-1/10 99-2/10
" 27 99-3/10 99-4/10
" 28 99-2/5 99-2/5
" 29 99-3/10 99-3/10
" 30 99-1/10 99-4/10
" 31 99-1/10 99-2/10
June 2 99-3/5 99-4/5
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I have given these full details because I have not seen elsewhere any
statement of the rather remarkable phenomena which they exemplify. It
may be that a part at least of the thermal change is due to the muscular
action, although this seems hardly competent to account for any large
share in the alteration of temperature, and we must look further to
explain it fully. No mental excitement can be called upon as a cause,
since it continues after the patient is perfectly accustomed to the
process. I should add, also, that in most cases the subject of the
experiment was kept in ignorance of the fact that a rise of the
thermometer was to be expected. Is it not possible that the current even
of an induction battery has the power so to stimulate the tissues as to
cause an increase in the ordinary rate of disintegrative change? Perhaps
a careful study of the secretions might lend force to this suggestion.
That the muscular action produced by the battery is not essential to the
increase of bodily heat is shown by the next set of facts to which I
desire to call attention.
Some years ago, Messrs. Beard and Rockwell stated that when an induced
current is used for fifteen to thirty minutes daily, one pole on the
neck and one on either foot, or alternately on both, the persistent use
of this form of treatment is decidedly tonic in its influence. I believe
that in this opinion they were perfectly correct, and I am now able to
show that, when thus employed, the induced current causes also a decided
rise of temperature in many people, which proves at least that it is in
some way an active agent, capable of positively influencing the
nutritive changes of the body.
The rise of temperature thus caused is less constant, as well as less
marked, than that occasioned by the muscle treatment. I do not think it
necessary to give the tables in full. They show in the best cases, rises
of one-fifth to four-fifths of a degree F., and were taken with the
utmost care to exclude all possible causes of error.
The mode of treatment is as follows: At the close of the
muscle-electrization one pole is placed on the nape of the neck and one
on a foot for fifteen minutes. Then the foot pole is shifted to the
other foot and left for the same length of time.
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