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Title: Principles of electro-medicine, electrosurgery and radiology : a practical treatise for students and practitioners. With chapters on mechanical vibration and blood pressure technique
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Matijaca, Anthony
Subjects: Vibration Electrotherapeutics X-rays Blood pressure Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Electrosurgery
Publisher: Butler, New Jersey Tangerine, Fl. New York City : Published by Benedict Lust
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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protected position, it holds the heat longest. Vacuum Tube Applications Vacuum tube applications promote local hyperaemia, absorption andheat; increase local nutrition and oxygenation; liberate ozone, which isinhaled by the patient and is locally germicidal; retard the growth ofparasitic diseases, and decrease the virulence of the toxins produced bythe bacteria, etc. Local hyperaemia produced by this method usually lasts from 10 to 24hours, according to the time of application, strength of the current andthe physical condition of the patient. These applications are indicated in all local chronic inflammatoryconditions, e. g., neuritis, neuralgia, constipation, hemorrhoids, salpin-gitis, rheumatism, herpes, eczema and all other skin affections. Mild and medium sparks stimulate or soothe, according to the lengthand character of the application. Strong sparks are caustic. Sparks tothe spine and solar plexus increase the arterial tension. Electro-Medicine, Electro-Surgery and Radiology 59
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Surface Vacuum Electrode. Vacuum tubes Vacuum tube treatments are administered by means of glass elec-trodes of different shapes and sizes (according to the part treated), andare applied by direct contact, by a fine spray (Effleuve) or by sparks. For the reason that most of the current is discharged at the first pointwhere the electrode comes in contact with the body, when treating vari-ous orifices, in order to administer a sufficient quantity of current with-in, it is advisable to use insulated vacuum tubes. These tubes are far superior to the ordinary uninsulated electrodes,and consist of a vacuum chamber, surrounded all its length except thepoint, by a chamber filled with air, which acts as an insulator. (Fig. 24.)

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