A Brief Physiotherapy Manual 1925 First Edition ~ Noble M Eberhart ~ Electrotherapy / Diathermy / Galvanism ~ Vintage ~ Medical Treatments

Title: A Brief Physiotherapy Manual
Author: Noble M. Eberhart
Publication: Chicago: New Medicine Publishing Co., 1925

Description: A scarce copy of the 1925 first edition. Burgundy cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Rear cover is damp soiled; spine darkened; some fraying to cloth at edges. Previous owner's name and address on front pastedown (see below). Notes in top margin of one page, underlining on one page, and notes written on rear endpaper. 23 photographs showing the application of treatments (many featuring what appears to be the McIntosh Electrical Corporation's Hogan High Frequency Transformer), plus several other diagrams and drawings. Index + Index of Illustrations. 271 pages.

A manual of electrotherapy, based on the author's own Lecture Course and Clinic on that subject, which provides descriptions of the various electrical currents and the methods and techniques of applying them in the treatment of various diseases.

Contents: I. Introduction; Definition; Classification. II. The Galvanic Current. III. The Faradic Current. IV. The Sinusoidal Currents. V. High Frequency Currents. VI. Diathermy. VII. How High Frequency Currents Are Produced. VIII. Light. IX. Ultra-Violet Rays. X. Mechanical Vibration; Ozone; Thermolysis. XI. Gynecology. XII. Genito-Urinary and Prostatic Diseases. XIII. Skin Diseases. XIV. Diseases of the Scalp. XV. Diseases of the Eye. XVI. Diseases of the Ear. XVII. Diseases of the Nose. XVIII. Diseases of the Throat; Tonsil Coagulation. XIX. Respiratory Diseases. XX. Rectal Diseases. XXI. Miscellaneous Diseases.

Noble Murray Eberhart (1870-1939) was a physician, surgeon, teacher, X-ray pioneer, electotherapy researcher, and medical device designer. He had been a former Head of the Department of Physiologic Therapeutics at the Medical Department of Loyola University and a former Head of Department of Electrotherapeutics at the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. He had also served as an attending surgeon or physician at the Cook County Hospital, the Chicago Baptist Hospital, and the Frances E. Willard Temperance Hospital.

This volume is from the personal library of Dr. Norman M. Abbe (1901-1997), who helped establish the Ohio Chiropractic Association and served as its Secretary/Treasurer for many years. In 1924, he received his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree from the Great Lakes/Metropolitan Chiropractic College in Cleveland, his Degree in Radionics in 1926, and his Doctor of Mechanotherapy in 1929. He began his practice in Elyria and then Girard, before moving to Akron in 1943, where he practiced for until 1977. He continued to be an active practitioner until the age of 94. He was also a scion of one of the founding families of Elyria, Ohio. Abbe Road, which runs from Elyria to the shores of Lake Erie, was named for the family.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good-

Keywords: electrotherapy, diathermy, galvanism, medicine, medical treatments, history, electrophysiology, d'Arsonval, Kromayer lamp, Alpine Sun Lamp, Burdick Lamp, McIntosh Electrical Corporation, High Frequency Transformer, oudin current, Tesla current, Norman M. Abbe,