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

mixture, with ammonia and valerian added, (which, by the way, is one of our very best preparations of iron for these eases.) The first few sittings occupied only three minutes each. Circle treatment was the principal method of operating, and this was done by placing one large and moist sponge electrode, which was the positive, over the painful part, while the other electrode was applied some ten inches from the first, and carried in a radius about it, but without removing either of them until through; using at first a very gentle and then a stronger Faradaic current, but if at band, a galvanic current is better still. This was continued for one week. Said she was certainly one halt" better. To omit medicine and electric treatment now for one week ; but to take in the mean time, twice a day, a pill of the sulphate of iron and quinine, and to apply to the dorsal spine a lotion of soap liniment and extract of opium, in equal parts, at bed time. Improvement continues ; looks much better, and her gait is more natural anil free. To repeat the electrical sittings and the myrrh mixture daily for a week more. The negative electrode was often carried as far as the cervical spine, the pit of the stomach, and over the bowels, the pelvis, lumbar and sacral regions. Tins quite chased away all pains; her appetite and rest are greatly improved. This case was dismissed with advice to shock the dorsal spine every evening with a towel squeezed out in very cold water, and applied suddenly, with a wipe up and down the whole back, which was then to be as quickly rubbed and dried, and the patient to be got into bed, well tucked in. She immediately resumed her former employ- ment, and has regained very substantial health. Pains about the. Loins. — Dr. Oke says, most truly, that there is no symptom more commonly met with in the general practice of medicine than " pain in the loins." To arrive at its true cause, in any given case, we must try to ascertain what function is principally involved ; we propose, — 1. If the pain be rheumatic, it (soreness) will be increased by pressure on the seat of pain; and still more, if it be neuralgic, if pressure be made over the origin of the nerves there distrib- uted. If rheumatic, the pain will be increased by the slightest