HEAT WITHIN THE BODY.
MECHANICAL ' DEVELOPMENT. C - One of the latest machines for developing heat within the body is ; shortly to be added to the equipment of the New Plymouth Public Hospital, as a result of the visit of Br, E. A. Walker, the medical superintendent, to Great 'Britain- and the Continent. This is a diathermy machine, which -is extensively used in the larger hospitals 'of Europe V and Britain. : The diathermy machine is worked by. electricity, abd induces the , flow of electric current "through the body of the patient .requiring treatment. Its effect is the same as that of a hot press, the difference being that, whereas the heat of the compress is induced -by external , application, the diathermy, with its special minutelybroken current, goes direct to the tissues. The passage of the electricity is not felt by the. patient.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18585, 18 December 1923, Page 10
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