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artificial physical therapeutics
The application of physical therapeutics to the treatment
of diseases was carried out since the 18th Century with the
use of static electricity and the invention of electrostatic
machinery. It was, however, through the 19th Century when
the knowledge in physics, in particular about dynamic electricity,
allowed the consolidation of modern electrotherapy and electrophysiology.
The Museum collection presents an interesting array of devices
showing the evolution of these techniques through distinct
experimental and therapeutic sets, which provided constant,
induction, combined galvanic-faradic, or high-frequency currents,
as well as through therapeutic instrumental developed during
the first third of the 20th Century, such as those of diathermia
and of short wave, triggering the production of electrotherapeutic
domestic furniture.
Other instrumental is present in the collection, such as the
ozonator for therapeutic inhalations. In contrast, though,
ultrasonography and emission of different ways of therapeutic
radiation have currently lower weight in the Museum.
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