Electricity: Its Medical and Surgical Applications, Including Radiotherapy and Phototherapy, with a Section of Electrophysics, and a Section on X-Rays

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viii, 509 pp. 8vo. Includes sections on electricity, electrophysiology, electrodiagnosis and electroprognosis, general electrotherapeutics, methods of obtaining general and local e ffects by the indirect action of electricity, special electrotherapeutics, and the application of the Roentgen rays [X-rays] in medicine. Extensive index follows text. This work was published just 16 years after the original paper by William Roentgen ('On A New Kind Of Rays' (Über eine neue Art von Strahlen)) announcing his discovery of x-rays. Roentgen is considered the father of diagnostic radiology. Show more