Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.

these results: that the pain gradually decreased, and the limb regained its size, strength, firmness, and temperature, and that the patient is now able to earn his living by following his occu- pation. The shortening of the limb of course remains. " Case 3d is an abstract of an account by the patient himself. In July, 1833, he was attacked with fever, from which he re- covered in a week or two, but found his left foot numbed, and that he walked lame. This increased; then came a difficulty in retaining his urine. In this state he became a patient in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Liniment was applied to the foot, and four moxas to the loins, followed by poultices, and warm baths three times a week. After three weeks, he left the hospital un- relieved ; but the urinary symptoms remained troublesome, and weakness increasing, he became an out-patient at St. George's Hospital, where he was several times cupped, often blistered, &c. The patient reports that he remained in the same state till 1859, when he was seized with pain in the back, which was relieved in a week or ten days. Severe pain then attacked the foot in which he first experienced the numbness; and two months later the other foot, with the leg and thigh, became painful, and he was for three weeks in continual agony, the urinary annoyance con- tinuing very troublesome, and the pains occurring occasionally, sometimes in one leg, sometimes in the other, occasionally in both, but never extending beyond the middle of the thigh. He found great difficulty in walking, which appeared to have in- creased during the previous year. " Such was the state of this patient when I saw him. There was little doubt he was suffering from organic disease in the spinal cord, and I had no difficulty in tracing its origin to a severe injury done to the back, by a fall from a horse, some years since. Then came the question, was this a case likely to be benefited by galvanism ? I thought not; but this patient was the friend of the subject of case second, and was most anxious it should be tried. I consented, and the result was as follows : The incontinence of the urine gradually subsided, though it never entirely ceased; the legs acquired strength ; the gait be- came firmer and less tottering; and the foot acquired warmth.