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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    different directions. In the flexures of the joints, and on the back of the hand and foot, the swellings are thicker, more cedematous, of a bluish-red colour, and pit on pressure. When the effusion is confined to a group of muscles, there is generally over this group a distinct circumscribed induration of the cellular tissue, which, according to my observation, is so constant a symptom as to be a diagnostic sign of the cause of the paralysis; though, at the same time, I must mention that I have seen paralysis arising from disease of the nervous system followed by effusion. It may be known when the complaint is of a rheumatic nature by the accompanying lancinating pains and the marked influence of atmospheric changes; yet these symptoms are not unfailing, rheumatic paralysis being sometimes unattended by pain. Another important symptom is the decreased sensibility of the cutis over the effusion, there being not only a feeling of coldness, but an actual decrease of temperature, influenced by the weather, the surrounding parts appearing of a red or reddish-blue colour. The limb feels warmer and looks redder on the passage of an electro-magnetic current; and from its continued application, the superficial and deep effusion be-