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bG - i just checked & the auction is still alive. it's not me selling, i

don't know who the seller is.

if you mean that you're soured on ebay or otherwise don't want refs to items

offered there on here please be clear about that so i know what you're

saying.

kinda pricey, but it's fun to look at the pictures in the listing. the

author probably has some good ideas too.

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Title: A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity

By Dr. M. Beard and Dr. A. D. Rockwell

Published in 1879

Second Edition Stated: Enlarged and Re-Written

Published in New York: Wood & Co.

Printed in New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co.

Pages: xxviii+(2)+794. Complete.

Size: 235 x 160 mm (9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches)

By Dr. M. Beard and Dr. A. D. Rockwell:

Beard was a pioneer physician in the study of neuroses. He

was a forerunner of Sigmund Freud, and modern theories of psychiatry and

mental illness.

Beard was born in Montville, Connecticut. He studied at Yale, and began a

practice of electrotherapeutics with his colleague A.D. Rockwell, the

coauthor of this book.

Beard specialized in electrotherapy and diseases of the nervous system. He

lectured at New York Univesity, edited a medical encyclopedia, experimented

with hypnotism ...and wrote this book, which was the premier treatise on

medical electricity.

Beard one of the first American neurologists to publish the first works in

the field of the medical use of electricity.

Electricity therapy had been popular in the 18th century ...Ben lin

even tried this medical treatment.

Electric treatment became standard treatment for functional nervous

disorders in the mid 1800s, and survived as a theraputic treatment until the

early 1900s.

Beard also coined the phrase " neurasthenia " for nervous exhaustion. This

nervous disorder soon became known as " American Nervousness " .

The co-author, A. D. Rockwell, was a charter member of the American

Neurological Association, and presented a paper on " electrization "

treatments at the association's first meeting in 1875.

This Book:

This is the premier American treatise on using electricity for medical and

psychological cures.

Chapters include:

Electro-physics: linian electricity, Galvanism, Electrolysis /

Electro-Chemistry, Thermo-Electricity, Ohm's Law, etc.

Electro-physiology: Action of electricity on the skin, Action of electricity

on the brain and spinal cord, Action of electricity on the nerves, blood,

muscles, nutrition, etc.

Electro-therapeutics: Electro-therapeutical anatomy, appartus, Localized

electrization, Electric baths, Hysteria and phobias, Insanity, Alcoholism,

Neuralgia, Anaesthesia, Paralysis, Muscular atrophy, Rheumatism and gout,

Diseases of the skin / Dermatology, Digestive diseases, Gynecology,

Pediatrics, Diseases of the Genito-urinary organs, Opthalmology, Diseases of

the ear, Midwifery, Cardiology, Obesity, etc.

Electro-surgery: Electrolysis, galvano-cautery, cancer and tumors, aneurisms

and varicose veins, ulcers, etc.

Provenance: I purchased this book recently from the estate auction of Dr.

J. B. Light, a book collector in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Condition: Very Nice Condition. Pages are bright, fresh, and clean, with No

foxing spots or dampstains. No library or institution markings or

pen-and-ink markings. Interior hinges are very good with No separations to

endpapers' gutters. Pages are securely bound. The cover's fore-corners are

rubbed with light wear to the ends of the spine. The back cover has a faint

scratch (The scratch is too faint to show in a scanner image.) Very nice

condition throughout.

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