Handbook of Electrotherapy for Practitioners and Students #265760

About twenty-five thousand physicians in the United States employ electricity as a therapeutic agent, many of whom have in their possession some form of electrical apparatus.<br><br>Owing to the fact that few medical colleges include electrotherapeutics in their curriculum, little opportunity is given medical men to become familiar with modem methods of its application, and many fail to secure favorable results because proper instruction is not available.<br><br>This work is intended to give practical instruction covering the indications and use of the various currents in practice; the subjects treated, in the main, are briefly considered, but up to date. An effort has been made to boil down the subject of electrotherapy and to treat it in a manner that it may be understood and made useful not only to every electrotherapist but to the entire medical profession.<br><br>Electricity has no magic formulas, but is an efficient helpmate in the practice of medicine.<br><br>The bibliography at the close of the book is not complete. It is impossible to render full acknowledgment to all sources which have assisted me in preparing this work. However, I am indebted to many writers whose articles have appeared from time to time during the past ten years in the American Journal of Electrotherapeutics and Radiology.<br><br>I fully realize that the subject of electrotherapeutics has not been fully elucidated, but an effort has been made to point out the essentials that they may be of assistance to those who employ electricity as a therapeutic agent in medicine.