词条 | The Desideratum; or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful |
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The 72-page book has led Wesley to be mentioned alongside his contemporaries Richard Lovett and Jean Paul Marat as a pioneer advocate of the medical uses of electroconvulsive therapy, despite the fact that Wesley's tests and results are not considered scientific by modern standards.[2] References1. ^Randy L. Maddox, Jason E. Vickers The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley 2009 Page 173 "One other characteristic of Wesley's engagement with the study of nature ... Wesley's embrace of this basic emphasis is evident in The Desideratum; or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful (1760). ...accounts of medical benefits of electrical shock. I Whereas some viewed these accounts with scorn, Wesley collected them and added accounts from his own experiments in public clinics with "electrifying machines." He then published them 2. ^Linda S. Schwab, essay This Curious and Important Subject - John Wesley and The Desideratum, in Inward & Outward Health: John Wesley's Holistic Concept of Medical Science ed. Deborah Madden 2008, republished 2012 Page 169 ".. has elicited a wide range of evaluations from scholars of the last ... Discussion of its place (if any) in the history of medicine has been complicated and often compromised by a persistent and critical misunderstanding: that the only contemporary application of electricity in medicine is electroconvulsive therapy ." External links
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