Identifier: 54620390R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: Nursing and care of the nervous and the insane
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Mills, Charles K. (Charles Karsner), 1845-1931, author Yawger, N. S. (Nathaniel Shurtz), 1872-1957, editor New York Academy of Medicine, donor
Subjects: Mental Disorders Physical Therapy Modalities
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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r advice. In an article by Allan McLane Hamilton, M.D., onThe Use of Revulsives in Diseases of the NervousSystem, published in the Philadelphia Medical Timesfor September 4, 1875, is described an ingenious instru-ment for the alternate application of dry heat and drycold, a most valuable form of revulsion in spinal irrita-tion and other nervous maladies. It consists of twochambers of brass, three inches in diameter by one anda half inches deep. These have screw plugs inserted,so that they may be removed and the chambers filled,one with cold salt and water, the other with hot water.These chambers are fixed on a rod and separated by aninsulating or non-conducting substance. The rod ter-minates in a handle. The flat surface, covered by thinflannel, is placed against the bare back, on either sideof the spinous processes of the vertebrae, and the in-strument moved up and down rapidly. As the heatedand cold surfaces constantly interchange, the effect ismarked. THE NERVOUS AND THE INSANE. 69
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70 THE NURSING AND CARE OF CHAPTER IV. Forms of Electricity—Faradic Apparatus—The Mechanism,Management, and Care of Faradic Apparatus—Hints, Cau-tions, and Contraindications in Using Electricity—Electrodes—Conducting Cords—Methods of Applying Electricity—Motor Points. In the present chapter I shall call attention to theuse of electricity by nurses ; but while I believe nursesshould sometimes be allowed to use this agent, I wishto have my position with reference to this matter clearlyunderstood. Asa rule, only physicians, or others underthe special direction of physicians, should use electricityfor medical purposes. Nurses, therefore, should be per-mitted to make use of it only under special orders forparticular objects. In order to employ electricity in allits forms, and for all or even many of its legitimatepurposes, no one is qualified thoroughly unless he orshe has received a regidar medical training. Certaindangers, to which I shall recur later, attend the use ofelec

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