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

that in three or four months more she was, to a degree, on her feet again ; her speech had partially returned, and the paralysis of the face was apparently quite restored. From this, however, until she was presented at my rooms for electric treatments, (which was several months,) there had been no mentionable change for the better, but in some respects, a losing. Her speech I found to be remarkably slow, and quite imper- fect. When she attempted to speak, the tongue was inclined to one side, and the deep fibres of the orbicularia-oris, were constricted. Her gait was unsteady, the arm mostly helpless, and her head felt to her, she said, as if swimming and very heavy. The appearance of those muscles that remained still affected were, evidently, in a remarkably good condition. True, they were rather delicate to the touch, but they were plump and warm. Here I at once concluded, that we had another unsuitable case for electric treatments. It was requested, however, that the case should be tested. Therefore the patient was seated in the operating chair, and the electrodes applied in the usual man- ner, the one to the nerve medianus, and the other to the flexor muscles of the paralyzed forearm; for nearly all these flexors were totally helpless. Instantly the contact was made with the electro-magnetic machine, using a down-running current of only one third strength, and the fingers were successively con- tracted as the lower electrode was swept transversely across the lower portion of the bellies of the adductor muscles. But they remained as helpless as ever so soon as the current was discon- tinued. The same prompt response of the still delinquent mus- cles of the affected leg was shown to the same moderate current. The test was then removed to the sound side, and there gave very similar results. Of course, this completely confirmed my suspicions, which led me to proscribe utterly all electric treat- ments as being too hazardous for a patient while in such a state. In the " early treatment " of hemiplegia from softening of the brain, Dr. J. Hughs Bennett, of Edinburgh, believes that the most important result for the practitioner to aim at, in these cases, is to keep down the undue frequency and force of the