Electricity: Its Medical and Surgical Applications, Including Radiotherapy and Phototherapy, with a Section of Electrophysics, and a Section on X-Rays

viii, 509 pp. 8vo. Includes sections on electricity, electrophysiology, electrodiagnosis and electroprognosis, general electrotherapeutics, methods of obtaining general and local effects by the indirect action of electricity, special electrotherapeutics, and the application of the Roentgen rays [X-rays] in medicine. Extensive index follows text. This work was published just 16 years after the original paper by William Roentgen ('On A New Kind Of Rays' (Über eine neue Art von Strahlen)) announcing his discovery of x-rays. Roentgen is considered the father of diagnostic radiology.