On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

  • Froriep, Robert, 1804-1861.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    sensibility of the skin: for the most part it is blunted to the external touch, which is felt as a pressure, but cannot be so nicely distinguished as by skin in a healthy state, and they generally render it more susceptible of atmospheric changes. The parts where effusion exists are not painful when touched, but their sensibility is sometimes decreased, though oftener increased, by the passage of an electro-magnetic current: they are also sub- ject to peculiar sensations, as a feeling of cold, or of a dry burning heat and itching. Pain is the symptom which most frequently accompanies this effusion into the cutis in all forms of rheumatism, such as sciatica, loss of sensation, and rheumatic paralysis. The secretion of these smooth places is checked, and I have seen the surrounding skin bathed in perspiration whilst they remained quite dry. II. The second and most frequent form of rheumatic effusion is that which takes place into the subcutaneous cellular tissue—the induration of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. This is found either in small circumscribed spots, or spreading over a limb, half the body, or the whole body.