Electroterapia, medicina y psiquiatría en Galicia (España) a finales del siglo xIx y primeros años del xx
- David Simón Lorda 1
- Xaqueline Estévez Gil 1
- María Victoria Rodríguez Noguera 1
- Mónica Minoschka Moreira Martínez 1
- Tatiana Bustos Cardona 1
- 1 Servicio de Psiquiatría. Complexo Hospitalario de Ourense (CHUO). Servizo Galego de Saúde
ISSN: 1130-1538
Year of publication: 2016
Issue: 58-59
Type: Article
More publications in: SISO SAÚDE: Boletín de la Asociación Galega de Saúde Mental
Abstract
A review on the use of electrotherapy in the treatment of nervous and mental disorders in psychiatric hospitals and medical practices in the region of Galicia (NW Spain) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth is performed. We reviewed the Psychiatric Conxo Archives (period 1885-1930), as well as publications and graphic sources of the time, private files and newspaper sources. Conclusions: As in many European countries at that time, electrotherapy was publicized at the time as a major therapeutic innovation in Galicia of those years. There were cabinet electrotherapy both the central Psychiatric Hospital in the region (Manicomio de Conxo, Santiago de Compostela, which opens in 1885) and in some general hospitals begin to have cabinets or departments of electrotherapy in the first decades of the twentieth century. Electrotherapy also was offered both private medical cabinets specialized establishments and spas and hydrotherapy centers that appear in nineteenth century and dedicated to treatment of "nerves" (neurological, neurosis, neurasthenia, hysteria ...) diseases.