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Second edition. Dark red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches, 155 pp. (plus 16 pages of publisher's ads in rear), index, frontispiece illustration of ions (ferrous, copper and iodine) put on parchment paper electrically, b/w illustration of a "rectal rheophore". Two ex-library ink-stamps (Granville Canadian Special Hospital, Ramsgate). About good or good minus. Scarce. Preface to the Second Edition: "The exhaustion of the first edition within six months has made it necessary to prepare a second, but has not given much time for the collection of new matter. Beyond a little rearrangement of the paragraphs in the first chapter, and short additional sections on pericarditis, on teno-synovitis, and on the elimination of lead from the system, the book remains almost unaltered." From the first chapter: "Ionic medication is a method of treatment in which electric currents are used for their power of setting the constituents of a saline solution in orderly motion in a definite direction. From the point of view of electrical conductivity, the tissues of the body may be regarded as a saline solution, and the laws of the conduction of electricity in solutions may be applied to the interpretation of the effects of currents traversing the tissues. Ionic medication is used for the introduction of drugs into superficial parts of the body through the surface, and also for modifying the chemical constitution of parts of the body, such as joints, fibrous tissues or nerves, by the setting up of chemical interchanges throughout their substance." From Chapter 3: "The principle which underlies the ionic treatment of infected wounds is as follows: The current is able to convey the ions of an antiseptic chemical into the floor of an ulcer, or into the lining membrane of a sinus, so that the ions are brought into direct contact with intracellular organisms lurking beneath the surface, and out of the reach of antiseptic lotions or ointments." Contents: The Human Body as a Conductor of Electricity; Apparatus; The Antiseptic Metallic Ions - Zinc, Copper, Mercury, and Silver; Lithium, Magnesium, Radium, the Alkaloids; The Salicylic Ion; The Ions of Chlorine and of Iodine; Miscellaneous Ions, Electrolysis. (3214029A).
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