CONTENTS OF PART 1. 



METHODOLOGY. 



CHAPTER I. 



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Medical Electricity .. 3 



Part I. — Static Electricity .. .. .. .. .. . . . . 4 



§ I. Physiological properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 



A. Electro-positive and negative baths . . . . . . 4 



B. Sparks and the Leyden jar . . . . . . . . 5 



§ II. Therapeutical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 



Note by the Translator . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 



Part II. — Contact Electricity {Galvanism) . . .. .. .. .. 10 



§1. Physiological properties .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 



§ n. Therapeutical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 



Part III. — Induced Electricity .. . . . . . . . . . . 17 



§ I. Physiological action of the current of the first helix, and of the 



current of the second helix . . . . . . . . . . 22 



§ II. Therapeutic properties of induced currents . . 82 



Different denominations of the various kinds of electricity . . 36 



Note by the Translator . . . . . . 37 



CHAPTER II. 



Localized Electrization. 



Part I. — The Fundamental Princijples of the Method 



Part II. — Localized Muscular Electrization 



§ I. Localized muscular electrization by static electricity 

 § II. Muscular electrization by contact electricity 

 I. Voltaic Batteries for Medical Purposes . . 



A. Batteries of large surface with inconstant ctu'rents 

 The columnar pile of Volta . . 



Cruikshank's trough battery . . 

 The cylindrical glass battery . . 

 Porcelain trough battery 

 Wollaston's battery 

 Berzelius's battery 



B. Batteries of large surface with constant currents . . 

 Daniell's battery 



Grove's battery . . . . . . 



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