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

eight cases by four applications each. In six cases, when the voice did return, it was at once, and as strong as it had ever been. In five of these patients, there was an evident increase in the sonorousness of the voice, which was discernible from the beginning to the end of the treatment. A severe and long standing case of aphonia in a man, cured by means of galvanism, is thus reported in the London Lancet: "Theodore M., 24 years of age, of sanguine temperament and robust constitution, had enjoyed good health until an affray, which was followed by a violent fit of epilepsy, and the sequel of this was entire loss of voice. To restore this, local and general bleedings and antiphlogistic measures of all kinds were employed without effect. The tongue was now enlarged, reddened, and dry, and tbe blood vessels around its base were much distended. Taste was still perfect, but the movements of the tongue and of the larynx were performed with the greatest difficulty. Leeches to the sides of the tongue, and other active remedies, as tartar- emetic plaster, was placed over the larynx ; but all these means failed to restore a healthy action in the parts adjacent. Sixteen months after the attack, the primary current of a battery of 50 pairs was employed, by placing the positive electrode over the cervical vertebra?, while the negative was upon the parts affected. On the first day, 200 shocks were thus given ; and on the second day, 300 shocks ; but no perceptible good or bad effects followed. Two days were allowed to elapse, and then a battery of 70 pairs of plates was used," (the kind of battery not given,) " so that some 300 shocks were at this time given. The patient was now found acutely sensitive to the action of electricity, and a lapse of five days was permitted to intervene before its fourth applica- tion, which then consisted of 400 shocks, performed with the same battery."! The reporter of this case says, " Whether these shocks had been administered too precipitately, or whether his system had become more susceptible to galvanism, the patient, after this last application, became much more agitated, and sub- sequently fainted for a short time. Next day he suffered in- tense headache, his face was flushed, eyes lustrous, pulse full and strong, from which state he was relieved by copious bleed-