Electric Stimulation Therapy
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Application of electric current in treatment without the generation of perceptible heat. It includes electric stimulation of nerves or muscles, passage of current into the body, or use of interrupted current of low intensity to raise the detection threshold of the skin to pain.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
J.W. Porter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/156
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains 31 bills, receipts, and account
statements sent by five homeopathic physicians in the Champaign
and Urbana area to J. W. Porter, 1877-1897. The physicians
are: T. J. Merryman, J. E. Morrison, George R. Spooner, F. O'Dee
Springer, and C. D. Tufford. Many of the bills and accounts
concern treatments with electricity.
Dates:
1877 - 1897
Records of the Anderson Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/278
Scope and Contents
This collection of materials concerning the Anderson Hospital
spans 1917 to 1943. Included are photographs of the hospital's
facilities, form letters with information about the opening
of the hospital (ca. 1917), a clipping describing a fire at
the hospital (1924), and an illustrated brochure (ca. 1943).Series 1 includes photographs of the Anderson Hospital taken sometime
between 1917 and 1921, when it was still called the Pennsylvania
Orthopaedic Hospital and School of...
Dates:
1917 - circa 1943
