Excerpt from Practical Suggestions Respecting the Varieties of Electric Currents and the Uses of Electricity in Medicine: With Hints Relating to the Selection and Care of Electrical Apparatus Faou time to time for several years I have given ia struction in electro-therapeutics and electro-diagnosis to post-graduate medical students; and it now constitutes a part of my yearly course before the classes of the Medical Department of the University of Vermont. While engaged in preparing a forthcoming work upon the diagnosis and treatment of nervous diseases, it occurred to me that this subject would make an interesting and valuable chapter - especially as so much in neurology de pends upon a knowledge of electricity and electrical ap paratus. I therefore prepared the following pages, with that special intent - as a brief summary of such information as I deemed most essential to a scientific and successful use of electricity in medical practice. I have been persuaded by my students to anticipate the publication of my proposed volume somewhat through the New York Medical Journal, and to produce this special chapter in the form of a small guide for their use. I am partly actuated in so doing by of such a guide in my classes; and alsosome members of the profession may thus be reached and possibly benefited who are not particularly interested in neurology, and would probably not buy the larger vol ume. The fourteen plates at the end of the book (after Ziemssen and Flower) will aid the reader in treating mor bid states of the motor or sensory apparatus. 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.