An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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NAGELSCHMIDT, Karl Franz

1 entries
  • 2007

Ueber Diathermie. (Transthermie, Thermopenetration.)

Münch med. Wschr., 56, 2575-76, 1909.

Nagelschmidt employed high frequency currents in treatment after the suggestions of Tesla and the work of Nernst, claiming priority over the latter in the use of this method. Nagelschmidt named this form of treatment “diathermy”.



Subjects: THERAPEUTICS › Medical Electricity / Electrotherapy