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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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gestion and assimilation, to a large extent, improved. Dilating the blood vessels, these currents reduce the high blood pres-sure when h^j^pertension exists, which reduction progresses from onetreatment to another, without being accompanied by the vicious cycleas occurs with drugs, and consequently are more effective and moredesirable than drugs. Indications: Auto-condensation and auto-conduction treatments areof great value in all cases of defective metabolism, particularlyin diabetes, rheumatism, gout, asthma, kidney troubles (except acute Electro-Medicine, Electro-Surgery and Radiology 51 parenchj^matous nephritis), arteriosclerosis, nervous diseases, and allcases in which hypertension exists (unless compensatory). Contra-indications: These treatments are contra-indicated in acuteparenchymatous nephritis (on account of their ability to liberate wasteproducts more rapidly than the diseased kidney can carry away);general arteriosclerosis with low blood pressure; syphilitic and gonor-
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Fig. 16—Patient undergoing auto-condensation treatment. (Victor apparatus) rheal myocarditis; cerebral anaemia, excitement, and in all cases inwhich hypotension exists. AUTO-CONDENSATION is administered with the patient (fullydressed) on a couch or a chair having a large metal electrode under theinsulated cushion (which acts as a dielectric), connected to one end ofthe DArsonval solenoid (or other terminal of the transformer). Theother terminal of the apparatus is connected to a metal handle whichthe patient holds in his hand. 52 Anthony Matijaca Due to the large amount of current (300 to 1000 milliamperes) em-ployed in this treatment, the patient feels a gentle warmth beginning atthe wrists, gradually extending up the arm to the axilla and over theentire body. The current traversing the patient can be measured introducing aspecial hot wire milliamperemeter in that part of the circuit which con-nects the metal electrode which the patient holds in his hand. In order to demonstrate th

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