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Practical Remarks on the Use of Electricity in Mental Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

A. de Watteville
A. de Watteville*
Affiliation:
St. Mary's Hospital, London
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“Il n'y a point de parité entre la responsabilité d'un médecin et son pouvoir; l'une est grande et l'autre petit, et c'est justement à cause des limites oò ce pouvoir est resserré que, bien qu'il soit facile d' en laisser perdre une parcelle, la moindre parcelle perdue cause une poignante anxiété.”

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 30 , Issue 132 , January 1885 , pp. 483 - 488
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1885 

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* See Dr. Newth's paper in the last number of this Journal.—[Eds.] Google Scholar
* “A Practical Introduction to Medical Electricity,” 2nd Edition, page 28.Google Scholar
* With reference to the cost, I may say that eight pounds for a complete galvanic battery of forty cells, and two for a good induction apparatus ought to be sufficient. For details the reader is referred to the catalogues of the makers already named.Google Scholar
† Schoth's new pattern. Gaiffe's are not to be recommended.Google Scholar
* “A Practical Introduction to Medical Electricity,” pp. 161 and 190.Google Scholar
† The psychical effects of electrisation should be remembered, and may, in the hands of a judicious experimenter, be turned to good use in appropriate cases.Google Scholar
‡ The conditions under which electro-physiological phenomena are observed in the laboratory render them inapplicable to the explanation of phenomena observed in the living human body. Here what is above all required is a thorough mastery of the questions connected with the resistance of the tissues, and the diffusion of the current in them. Electro-physics, not electro-physiology, must for the time being form the basis of electro-therapeutics; much remains to be done before it can be otherwise. (Cf. loc. cit., chapter ii, and the paper by Waller and myself on the effects of the galvanic current on the motor nerves of man, in the “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society” for 1882.)Google Scholar
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