Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.
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reversing, I caused the muscle fibres to contract, and this with redness and heat wherever the electrodes were applied and swept along, which was done over the whole back at one seance, for example, then over the lower limbs at the next, &c. At the same time this patient remained under the mutual watch and care of Professor Clarke, who simply advised a diminution of medicine, but a continuance of the same regimen as to food, ex- ercise, and rest. It would be interesting to detail the progress of this critical case ; suffice it to say, however, that after the first four weeks her improvement became manifest to all; there was some evident return of flesh color; she had more appetite, and her menses had returned ; she was stronger; said she did not feel " so tired ; " was quicker in thought, speech, and action ; and in one month more she began to play on the piano, at which she was a great proficient. But I do not feel confident of her safety ; besides, Dr. Clarke tells me, that her sister has for years had more or less hysterical paraplegia, and I fear there is want- ing a real foundation for any truly substantial health, although on auscultation the bellows sound is gone from the heart, and the cooing sound from the carotids; showing that the due balance of the blood circulation is reestablished, the torpor is overcome, and the capillaries are fairly awakened to duty. Boivels. Dr. Treusseau, of the Hotel Dieu, Paris, recently published a paper in which he strongly urges the profession to the more fre- quent employment of " electro-therapeutics." He says, " I con- sider this class of remedies particularly indicated in many of those cases where there is reason to suspect a genera/ want of tone in the boivels, as in the delicate, the sedentary, male or female, and in other cases, indeed, wherever there may be sus- pected a want of tone in the parietes of the abdomen, or muscu- lar coat of the bowels themselves in consequence of great or long-continued distention; or, in short, where the constipation can be referred to an undue secretion of gas or flatus, which in itself, by causing habitual over-distention of the bowels, and