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Title: The Electric Bath

Author: George M. Schweig

Release Date: August 20, 2008 [EBook #26366]

Language: English

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THE
ELECTRIC BATH

ITS MEDICAL USES, EFFECTS
AND APPLIANCE

BY

GEORGE M. SCHWEIG, M.D.

MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY AND OF THE MEDICAL
JOURNAL ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; ONE OF THE
PHYSICIANS TO THE NEW YORK LYING-IN ASYLUM, ETC.

NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1877

COPYRIGHT,
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,
1876.

PREFACE.

In No 216 of "The Medical Record" (Dec. 15th, 1874) was published an
article written by me, entitled "On some of the Uses of Galvanic and
Faradic Baths."

The interest manifested in the subject, as evidenced by numerous letters
of inquiry since received from physicians in almost all parts of the
United States, and some in Europe, has induced me to write the present
treatise, in which I have endeavored to present to the profession, as
far as lies in my power, all that is necessary to a full comprehension
of the electro-balneological treatment.

When it is considered that in the employment of electric baths I have
been to a great extent groping in the dark, that I have been deprived of
the advantage of having the experience of others to guide me, it will
not appear surprising that I should have met with many disappointments.
My failures have been illus