Identifier: internationalsys00bige (find matches)
Title: An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Bigelow, Horatio R. (Horatio Ripley) Massey, George Betton, 1856-1927 Prince, Morton, 1854-1929 Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906 Hayes, Plymmon Sandford, 1850-
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Hysteria Uterus Electric Stimulation Therapy Uterus Hysteria
Publisher: Philadelphia : F. A. Davis London : F.J. Rebman
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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bility. It is used to explore theurethra and find the number, nature, and size of the strictures,—the realtopography. Filiform guides (Fig. 6) are used to prevent false passages; thetunneled electrodes run over these guides with perfect safety. Newmans urethral electrodes consist of four separate sets, asfollow:— 1. The egg-shaped set. Fig. 1, The regular electrodes for all ordi-nary cases have a short curve, an egg-shaped metallic bulb at the work-ing end, while at the upper end there is a round-wire rod for the binding-screw of the negative pole of the battery; the only points not insulatedand acting as conductors are these extremities. The rest of the elec-trode must be well insulated, smooth, and without inequalities; a eoni- STRICTURES; HYPERTROPHY OF THE PROSTATE. M-11 cal bulb is objectionable, as we depend on the electrolytic power ofabsorption, not on force. The length of the bulb is proportioned tothe size of the electrode ; thus, for No. 11 French it is three-sixteenths
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Fig. 1.—The Egq-Shaped Electrode. inch, while for No. 21 it is three-eighths inch. The set consists of Nos.11, 14, n, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, and 30 of the French scale. 2. The acorn set, Fig. 2. These are for use in the first six inchesof the urethra, in certain cases, and consist of Nos. 15, IT, 20, 22, 25,and 27, French. They are without a curve, short, and the bulb is acorn-shaped. Sometimes it is desirable to gain ground by entering the con-tiaction first with the point of the electrode, in order to follow moreeasily with the larger part of the acorn; then this form will do good Fig. 2.—Acorn-Shaped Electrode. work. The action of the electrolysis depends on the largest diameterof the bulb in these cases, and does most service on the withdrawal ofthe electrode, when the operator feels best how much work should bedone. It is also used when the stricture is near the meatus. It can beordered in any size. 3. The tunneled electrode. Fig. 3. These are in Nos. 9,11,14, It, 20,and 21,

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