ELECTRICAL TREATMENT.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16418, 11 January 1919, Page 10

ELECTRICAL TREATMENT.

ENORMOUS 1 GROWTH DURING THE WAR. \ MODERN INSTITUTE IN CHRISTCHUHCH. "The war lias been responsible for enormous strides in tho. appUcatlon o electricity as a fabtor 111 the medical art," said Mr, Leonard Andrews to a "Press" reporter yesterday Mr Andrews speaks with authority,, as he occupied the position of radiologist on the New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1, and. there he obtained in a comparatively short period a fund of experience and knowledge that might scarcely fall to the lot of any practitioner m a wholo .lifetimeof ordinary practice. Q e"ly in the war the modern methods of treating:.disease and wounded men by electricity were fully recognised, and, as 1 said, tho war has established the value iof this.' treatment. I have taken over the practice of Mr C. B. Morris, at the Medico-Electric Institute m Armagh street. The rooms are splendidly equipped', I, must say, Mia I snail glad if you will com© along and see for * The invitation was accepted. Tho spacious waiting-room is excellent, ana the consulting and operating rooms oqiially so. In the operating room the pressman had the opportunity of conversing with a patient under treatment for muscular rheumatism. "I couldn t move," the patient said, "when I came here. I was no use at all. It s done wonders for me," and' his' active. step -and glow of Health proved it. ■ v - - s . : / The remarkable progress in , .healing has been madejpopsible oifly the production of numerous,apparatus; ot ajljtypes, devised by jtHe Migration, of doctor and engineer, and so close bas been this co-operation of recent yeari that. - various . methods <?f electric therapeutic treatment have now < been brought to. a state bordering onperfection. The . apparatus, in the Elcctro- •; Medical 'Institute'inow under - is very complete &nd iip-Tn©* re* porter was greatly interested in the description of tho treatment, as well as in. the method of application, even the high frequency treatment being absolutely painless—one had no knowledge that the treatment was being applied—despite .the fact that the body was being bathed in a visible, electric spray. This treatment is infallible m cases of rheumatism, lumbago, and allied complaints. The Finsen a Danish invention, is a marvellous instrument,. with such; results to its credit that Queen Alexandra presented a Finsen lamp to. the London Hospital. At the Middlesex and other great London hospitals, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, etc., havo-been, cured in a few sittings. Tho Dr. Schneo. four-cell bath is recognised on the Continent and in England and America as the current, pax excellence for: the cure of rheumatism and | kindred complaints., The comparative painlessness. of • this- treatment permits the use of ■ greater'electro-motive force, 60 that the physiological action of the muscles .is more' thoroughly aroused. \ r hen we consider how many of the normal processes'of. the body, such as assimilation,' circulation, secretion, excretion, locomotion, etc.,' depend upon muscular tone aid vigour,. it will be seen at a glance, what a-wide range of therapeutic application is possessed by this form of muscular excitation alone, particularly as it improvesi .thq nutrition and. growth of muscular tissue. Then there is powerful, X-ray apparatus, and, in fact, everything that ought to be.found in a modern institute . of'this kind. Grateftil. testimonials and records of complete elites have been received from patients trteated for falling hair (by means of the electric head bath), severe nervous trouble, brought on'by shock (by high-frequency currents) ; cczema, rheumatism, deafness, sciatica, neuralgia, cancer of the lip> poisoned hand, kidney trouble, sycosis, injuiy to shoulder, pysorisis and boils, neuritis and goitre, asthma, paralysis of the arm,, lumbago, sprained ankle, muscular rheumatism,' and so on. It is safe U> predict for the MedicoElectric Institute an increasing number of patients, for the educational work in the development, of electric therapeutic treatment must bring a rich reward. The address is Armagh street, just east of Colombo street; 1