anuary to December, M. 1902 1a 1902 EDITORIAL STAFF. E. H. B. Winslow Anderson, A.., M. D., M. R. C. P. Lond., Editor and Proprietor. Freema Southard, A. M., M. D., Managing Editor. Gross, Louis Hall, Ernest Murrell, Wm. Wright, H. J. B. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. .385 Experimental Researches with Vita Aurantii, Haber......... Hyperchlorhydria and Motor Derangements of Stomach, Relation Between..343 Illustrative Cases of Conservative Operations on Uterus and Appendages......472 Nationalization of the Practice of Medicine... Opening of the New Military Hospital at the Presidio, July 9, 1899. Operation for Hemorrhoids, The Best.... Operations for Strabismus, A Factor in the Successful Result of. Operative Appendicitis in the Country.... Some Observations on History, Psychology and Therapeutics of Impotence....513 Starchy Indigestion and the Value of Malt Preparations Therein.. Treatment of Certain Symptoms and Conditions in Alcoholism. Treatment of Pneumonia..... Tubercular Peritonitis... Use of Dry-Hot Air in the Treatment of Rheumatism and Rheumatic Pains...641 ..229, 359, 494, 616, 690, 760 103, 232, 291, 354, 486. 557, 612 ..30, 101, 146, 218, 285, 346, 480, 548, 746 An Ophthalmologist's Opinion on Leprosy and a Leprologist's Reply to it... ..51 The Radical Cure of Writer's Cramp and Other Occupation Palsies.. ..372 Medical Fees and Millionaires..... New Building for the College of Physicians and Surgeons............ The New City Board of Health..... Tuberculosis and the Question of Quarantine.. Licentiates of State Board of Examiners.....116, 180, 252, 317, 439, 693, 574, 637, 706, 771 DeSchweinitz on the Eye..... Diagnosis by the Urine. Diseases of the Nervous System.. Diseases of the Nose, Throat, Naso-Pharynx and Trachea.. .572 .380 .786 .783 60 57 .789 .778 .120 55 64 64 54 779 .187 121 .378 .379 69 .779 .787 .182 Muscular Anomalies of the Eye... Nadkarni's Essentials of Modern Treatment of Disease.. Relation of the Nervous System to Disease in the Viscera... .787 Review of Recent Legal Decisions Affecting Physicians, Dentists and Druggists...... Vecki on the Pathology and Treatment of Practical Medicine. ..381 6390 MAY 1 1902 LIBRARY. PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL VOL. XLII. JANUARY, 1899. No. 1. Original Articles. GALVANIC CURRENT. By GEORGE ADAM, M. D., Professor of Electro-Therapeutics, College of Physicians and Surgeons of San (Lecture to the Students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Since the earliest history of electricity this agent has been used as a remedy for disease, but notwithstanding this fact, it is only lately that it is being assigned to its proper position as a therapeutical agent. There are several causes for this assignment having been delayed, but the chief one is that until the advent of the galvanometer the administration of electricity could not be exact, and therefore could not be scientific. The classification of the different manifestations of electrical force and the laws governing them, constitute the science of electricity. The study of this science, to many of you, will come easy, to others it will be more difficult. Just as some of you take a liking to chemistry, others to anatomy, and still others have that peculiar mind which becomes enthused over physiology; so you will find it with electricity. To those of you who will master this science, I will say that there is no more promising field for distinction; other paths are well trodden, the paths here are comparatively new, and some parts of the primeval forest have not even been explored. Those, on the other hand, to whom the fundamental principles will remain a blank, I predict chiefly disappointment in electro-therapeutics, accompanied by disagreeable results to patients and discredit to electricity as a remedy. Before commencing the study of the therapeutical part of our subject, I will call your attention to the more practical and therefore the more important facts upon which the administration of electricity is based. VOL. XLII-1. |