New Edition of an Important and Timely Work Just Published. 



Electricity in the Diseases of Y/omen, 



"With Special Reference to the Application of Strong Currents. 



By G. BETTON MASSEY, M.D, 



Physician to the Gynecological Department of Howard Hospital ; Late Electro-Therapeutist to the Phila- 

 delphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases : Member of the American 

 Neurological Ass'n, of the Philadelphia Neurological Society, of the Franklin Institute, etc. 



Sec©m.cl " 'ZEcLitioaa.. 2&e-s7-isecL staa-d ZEaa-larg-ea.. 



WITH NEW AND ORIGINAL WOOD -ENGRAVINGS. HANDSOMELY BOUND IN CLOTH. OVER 200 PAGES. 



i2mo. Price, in United States and Canada, $1.60, net, post-paid. 



In Great Britain, 6b. 6d. In France, 9 fr. 35. 



This work is presented to the profession as the most complete treatise yet issued op 

 the electrical treatment of diseases of women, and is destined to fill the increasing demand 

 for clear and practical instruction in the handling and use of strong currents after the 

 recent methods first advocated by Apostoli. The whole subject is treated from the present 

 stand-point of electric science with new and original illustrations, the thorough studies of 

 the author and his wide clinical experience rendering him an authority upon electricity 

 itself and its therapeutic amplications. The author has enhanced the practical value of 

 the work by including the exact details of treatment and results in a number of cases 

 taken from his private and hospital practice. 



Fig. 15. — Author's Fibroid Spear. 



Fig. i8,— Ball Electrode for Administering Franklinic Sparks. 



-COSTTEItT'X'S- 



Chapter I, Introductory ; II, Apparatus required in gynecological applications of the galvanic current ; 

 III, Experiments illustrating the physical qualities of galvanic currents; IV, Action of concentrated gal- 

 vanic currents on organized tissues ; V, Intra-uterine galvano-chemical cauterization; VI, Operative details 

 •f pelvic electro-puncture; VII, The faradic current in gynecology ; VIII, The franklinic current in gyne- 

 cology ; IX, Non-caustic vaginal, urethral, and rectal applications ; X, General percutaneous applications in 

 the treatment of nervous women ; XI, The electrical^ treatment of fibroid tumors of the uterus ; XII, The 

 electrical treatment of uterine hemorrhage; XIII, The electrical treatment of subinvolution; XIV, The 

 electrical treatment of chronic endometritis and chronic metritis ; XV, The electrical treatment of chronic 

 diseases of the uterus and appendages; XVI, Electrical treatment of pelvic pain; XVII, The electrical 

 treatment of uterine displacements ; XVIII, The electrical treatment of extra-uterine -pregnancy ; XIX, 



, The electrical treatment of certain miscellaneous conditions ; XX, The contra-indications and 1 imitations j* 



J the use of strong currents. 



I An Appendix and a Copious Index, including the definitions of terms used in the work, concludes 



j the book. 



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The author gives us what he has seen, and of whioh 



he is assured by scientific study is correct We 



are certain that this little work will prove helpful to all 

 physicians who desire to use electricity in the management 

 •f the diseases of women. — The American Lancet. 



To say that the author is rather conservative in/ bis 

 ideas of the curative powers of electricity is only another 

 way of saying that he understands his subject thoroughly. 

 The mild enthusiasm of our author is unassailable, because 

 it is founded on science and reared with experience.— The 

 Medical Analechc. 



The work is well written, exceedingly practical, and 

 can be trusted. We commend it to the profession." — Mary- 

 land Medical Journal. 



The book is one whioh should be possessed by every 

 physician who treats diseases of women by electricity.— 

 The Broohlyn Medical Journal. 



The departments of eleatro-physics, pathology, and 

 eteotro-therapeutiea are thoroughly and admirably con- 



sidered, and by means of good wood-cuts the beginner has 

 before his eye the exact method of work required.— The 

 Medical Register. ■ '" 



" The author of this little volume of 210 pages ought 

 to have added to its title, " and a most happy dissertation 

 upon the methods of using this medicinal agent ; " for in 

 the first 100 pages he has contrived to* describe the techm 

 of electrization in as clear and happy a manner as ne . 

 author has ever succeeded in doing, and for this part of the 

 book alone it is almost priceless to the beginner in the 



treatment with this agent The little book is 



worthy the perusal of every one at all interested in the 

 subject of electrioity in medioine.— The Omaha Clmio. 



The treatment of fibroid tumor of the uterus wiH, 

 perhaps, interest the profession more generally than any 

 other question. This subject has been accorded ample 

 space. The method of treatment in many cases has been 

 recited in detail, the results in every instance reported be- 

 ing beneficial, and in many curative .—Pacific Med. Jow. 



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(F. A. DAVIS, Medical Publisher, Pqintiafchi* Jg^/f ,? * X 



