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    The use of Galvanism in the treatment of hyperhidrosis in the axillary area

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    Management of Postsurgical Hyperhidrosis With Direct Current and Tap Water

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    Background and Purpose. Excessive sweating, known as hyperhidrosis, involves the eccrine sweat glands of the axillae, soles, palms, and/or forehead. The use of iontophoresis to reduce or eliminate excessive sweating has been described since 1952. The purpose of this case report is to describe the use of tap water galvanism (TWG) using direct current (DC) with a patient who had postsurgical hyperhidrosis. Case Description. The patient was a 36-year-old male electrician with traumatic phalangeal amputation and postsurgical development of hyperhidrosis. Tap water galvanism was administered using a DC generator, 2 to 3 times per week for 10 treatments. The patient\u27s hands were individually submerged in 2 containers of tap water with the electrodes immersed directly into the containers. Each hand was treated with 30 minutes of TWG at 12 mA. Hyperhidrosis was measured by a 5-second imprint and subsequent tracing of the left hand placed on dry paper toweling. Outcomes. The patient\u27s hyperhidrosis decreased from the full left palmar pad, with a surface area of 10.3×12.0 cm, to a reduced area of wetness that covered a 2.2-×2.7-cm area. The patient returned to work as an electrician without needing absorbent gloves, which had prevented him from performing electrical work. Discussion. Following use of TWG, the patient\u27s palmar hyperhidrosis returned to normhidrosis

    Francisco Salva's Electric Telegraph

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    This article takes a look at the life and accomplishments of Francisco Salva of Spain, including his work with an electric telegraph system. The author states that information herein is based on the original report and some practical demonstrations that Salva presented to the Barcelona Academy of Sciences in 1804

    Frankenstein Lives!

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    In lieu of an abstract, here is the article\u27s first paragraph: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has remained in print ever since it was published two hundred years ago this year, and has been the basis for innumerable adaptations. While most novels from so long ago have been forgotten, Shelley’s lives on. Why has it remained so popular? Perhaps, at least in part, it’s due to the philosophical themes it addresses: tampering with nature, the dereliction of duties, and the importance of taking responsibility for one’s actions. The tale of a being born without a mother, written by a young woman whose own mother died a few days after giving birth to her, it is perhaps most of all an examination of the need for love in order to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world. It is also a cautionary tale of a man who achieves what he sought to do, only to have his creation turn on him and all he loves

    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Guillotine, and Modern Ontological Anxiety

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    Lacefield’s interdisciplinary analysis analyzes motifs of decapitation/dismemberment in Frankenstein and then moves into a discussion of the novel’s exploration of the ontological categories specified above. For example, Frankenstein’s Creature, as a kind of cyborg, exists on the contested theoretical “slice” within a number of antinomies: nature/tech, human/inhuman (alive/dead), matter/spirit, etc. These are interesting juxtapositions that point to tensions within each set of categories, and Lacefield discusses the relevance of such dichotomies for questions of modernity posed by materialist theory and technological innovation. Additionally, she incorporates a discussion of films that fuse Shelley’s themes with appeals to twentieth-century and post-millennium audiences

    Frankenstein Lives!

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    In lieu of an abstract, here is the article\u27s first paragraph: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has remained in print ever since it was published two hundred years ago this year, and has been the basis for innumerable adaptations. While most novels from so long ago have been forgotten, Shelley’s lives on. Why has it remained so popular? Perhaps, at least in part, it’s due to the philosophical themes it addresses: tampering with nature, the dereliction of duties, and the importance of taking responsibility for one’s actions. The tale of a being born without a mother, written by a young woman whose own mother died a few days after giving birth to her, it is perhaps most of all an examination of the need for love in order to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world. It is also a cautionary tale of a man who achieves what he sought to do, only to have his creation turn on him and all he loves

    An Exploration of Female Sexuality, Class Status, and Art in Hardy’s Short Stories

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    In this paper, I examine Hardy’s treatment of female sexuality as mediated by art in two short stories: “The Fiddler of the Reels” and “An Imaginative Woman.” Given Hardy’s role as an artist, his noted compassion for women, and his interest in Victorian attitudes toward sexuality, my analysis of these topics in his short stories is particularly relevant. Hardy’s investment in class issues is also pertinent, as I consider how Hardy uses his heroines’ relationships with art to underline the distinct disadvantages of lower-class women. While Ella, the middle-class heroine of “An Imaginative Woman,” uses poetry to channel stagnant sensual energies as a relatively empowered subject, music objectifies and overpowers the lower-class Car’line of “The Fiddler of the Reels.” In my analysis, I compare Ella and Car’line’s interactions with art, noting art’s potential to serve as an emotional outlet, a source of pleasure, or an overwhelming and dangerous force. I argue that middle-class women possess a clear advantage: their access to Victorian discourses that acknowledge female sexuality and their encouragement to engage the creative arts as active agents afford them a level of power. Ella thus uses art as a tool to express her desires and to obtain a degree of sexual satisfaction. On the contrary, the rural, working-class Car’line is completely vulnerable to Wat’s fiddle, and its power ultimately causes her emotional and physical deterioration. In my comparison of female sexuality and artistic expression in “The Fiddler of the Reels” and “An Imaginative Woman, I elucidate Hardy’s efforts to reveal the distinct disadvantages of lower-class women in Victorian society

    Constructing the persona of the Naturwissenschaftler – German book reviews on galvanism

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    Scientific book reviews were an important genre in late-18thcentury German journals. The mostly anonymous reviewers regarded themselves as voices of the scientific community, judging the quality of new publications for its benefit. However, as this paper shows, some reviewers aspired to more than judging the books’ content. The reviewers of Christian Heinrich Pfaff ’s, Alexander von Humboldt’s, and Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s monographs on galvanism, published between 1796 and 1805, used the language of epistemic virtues and vices to present their readership with their ideal scientific persona meant to support the development of the empirical sciences.Konstruowanie osobowości przyrodnika – niemieckie recenzje książek na temat galwanizmu Ważnym gatunkiem w czasopismach niemieckich z końca XVIII wieku były recenzje książek naukowych. W większości anonimowi recenzenci uważali się za głosy środowiska naukowego, oceniając na jego rzecz jakość nowych publikacji. Jednak, jak pokazuje ten artykuł, niektórzy recenzenci dążyli do czegoś więcej niż tylko oceniania treści książek. Recenzenci monografii o galwanizmie Christiana Heinricha Pfaffa, Alexandra von Humboldta i Johanna Wilhelma Rittera, opublikowanych w latach 1796–1805, posługiwali  się językiem epistemicznych cnót i wad, aby przedstawić swoim czytelnikom idealną osobowość przyrodnika, mającą wspierać rozwój empiryczny nauki

    Frankenstein and “The Labours of Men of Genius”: Science and Medical Ethics in the Early 19th Century

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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, first published in 1818, used a sprawling network of allusions to contemporary literary and scientific works, which strongly reflected Romantic scientific and literary ideology. The robust connections between Romantic artistic and scientific circles included personal and professional relationships, scientists writing literary works, and authors discussing scientific advances. The closely linked scientific and artistic community helped define science and the nature of life in the new era. Medical historians have not fully discussed the debate concerning medical ethics in this period, detailing earlier Enlightenment medical ethics and later Romantic medical developments, which more closely resemble modern scientific values. The transition period discussed in this essay has no set beginning and end, but gaps in research specific to developing medical ethics tend to occur from approximately the early 1780s to the late 1820s. Frankenstein is a conscious example of a writer critiquing prevailing scientific views of the day and the text offers historians insight into developments during this significant period of transition in medical ethics

    From Galvanism to Electrodynamics: The Transformation of German Physics and Its Social Context

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    Historians have long been aware that German science underwent a profound qualitative and quantitative transformation during the first half of the nineteenth century. This paper investigates the qualitative aspects of that change in a single field of study, electricity and mag netism. Because this area of physical research was more actively pur sued, and pursued by a greater number of individuals, than any other, it may reasonably serve as a first approximation to the state of affairs in other areas of physics as well. Only future research will indicate whether certain generalizations based on this study depend upon factors peculiar to research in electricity and magnetism
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