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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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athermy is very large, both in medicine and surgery, and its applica-tion has, therefore, been divided into two branches, viz., Physiologicalor Medical Diathermy and Surgical Diathermy or Electro-Coagulation. Physiological or Medical Diathermy The utilization of heat in the treatment of disease dates back to thevery earliest days of medicine. Until the introduction of diathermy, allthe applications of heat were from without. This was well enough, so far Electro-Medicine, Electro-Surgery and Radiology 55 as it went; but such external applications never succeeded in heatingthe blood structures within the body. By means of diathermic current,we are, however, able to heat the internal parts of the body at will, andthereby produce all the essential elements of an inflammation withoutinjuring the cells of the body so as to stimulate them into reaction.Since the inflammation and fever (one is local, while the other constitu-tional reaction) are Natures most powerful processes for the produc-
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Fig. 20 — Combination appa-ratus delivering X-ray, HighFrequency, Auto - condensa-tion and Diathermy. tion of a cure, diathermy is, therefore, a truly physiological measure,which does not relieve or obscure symptoms, but assists the body in theperformance of its physiological function. The introduction of diathermic heat results in better cell functionand an increase in the chemistry of the part. This warmth, introducedfrom without, is stored up as energy in every molecule of the cell proto-plasm. There is neither any expenditure of the patients reserve energy,nor is there any actual combustion of circulating nutrient. 56 Anthony Matijaca As a secondary effect of this local diathermatization, we have pro-duced a local arterial hyperaemia, and as a further result, we have in-creased the vis a tergo on the arterial side, which, too, improves thepressure of the little venules. Consequently, we have done much to re-lieve the local venous engorgement, and we are directly aiding the re-mo

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