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

use of electricity is often of the greatest service in lessening the pains, loosening the rigidity, and warming the part with more vital action, so as to retard or stop this ruinous rheumatic process. Persons who labor or stand in cold with damp, and particular- ly if they have a rheumatic diathesis, are candidates for this af- fliction. Hence the washerwoman, fisherman, the ditcher, stall- tender, well-digger, or those who work in cellars and drains, are the most liable to this form of rheumatism. Out of seventy carefully recorded cases, thirty-three were traced to these classes. They were mostly ultimate cases of para- plegia, some complete, some partial; and what is remarkable, (lie partial cases had, almost to an individual, a previous history of acute sciatica. .Some others were af- fected in the right forearm, wrist, and hand; and this, in one instance, in con- nection with the affection also in the right lower limb; in another it was in the left limb. In-door mechanics and seamstresses make another class that very frequently present with local paralysis, and with as well marked evidences of rheumatism; and yet the affec- tion in them is not only paraplegic, but is almost invariably at the same time affect- ing the deltoid and other arm and shoulder muscles, or these latter exclusively. In three cases it gradually produced sub-luxa- Muscics on the Front of the tion of the head of tlie humerus. Are these Thigh. 1. Crest of the Ilium. 2. Its Anterior Superior Spinous Pro- cess. 3. Gluteus Medius. 4. Tensor Vaginee Femoris. 5. Sartorius. 6. Rectus Femoris. 7. Vastus Externus. 8. Vastus Interims. 9. Patella. 10. Iliacus Interims. 11. Psoas Magnus. 12. Pectineus. 13. Adductor Longus. 14. Adductor Magnus. Id. Gracilis.