Note 19 — LECTURE III. ELECTRICITY IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.

The following is an illustrative case:—

A lady, forty-one years of age, had suffered from right hemiplegia for eighteen months, and described her condition as having remained without improvement for the past six months. She had recovered sufficiently to walk with the aid of a stick, but the movements of the arm were very weak, especially those of the deltoid, extensors of the fingers, and individual muscles of the hand. Faradic contractility was somewhat lowered, but there was no rigidity. The muscles were carefully Faradized with a current just sufficiently strong to produce their contraction. The entire application occupied about fifteen minutes, and was made once daily. After a fortnight’s electrization she was able to raise the arm to a right angle with the body, and to use the hand to feed herself, neither of which had she been able to do before treatment.