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

eight years of age, who had overtaxed her voice at a social gath- ering. This lady was a mother of three children, and herself ap- pearing to be, otherwise, in excellent health ; but her voice was totally gone, and had been so for months, in spite of medical treatment and patient waiting. The treatment for the foregoing case was performed ex- clusively with the electro-magnetic current. The seance was usually commenced by using large moist sponge electrodes, and placing the positive on the back or side of the neck, while with the negative one labile, i. e., as it were, bathing the throat, the upper sternal region, and the upper portions of the pecto- ral muscles with this brisk current of electricity for about one minute, to work up a degree of susceptibility; then these were replaced by very small and covered metal electrodes', or small sponge-tipped ivory electrodes, which were planted, the one on the middle posterior border of the sterno cleido mas- toidevs muscle, while the other was swept along over the front of the throat, producing as strong throat muscle contractions as possible, first by a down-running current, then by an up- running one, but occupying certainly the most of the time of each sitting, (which was some five or six minutes in all,) with the current running downward, or direct. This was reversed from time to time — say five or six times during as many minutes. It was repeated daily, and then every other day, for a fortnight, when there was a marked improvement. From this time the voice returned gradually, so that in two months she could sing with the same sweetness and power as ever. The gradual restoration led me to reckon this as more a case of local muscular atony, than a pure " nervous" affection ; for the hysterical cases, so far as my observations go, recover instanter when they do at all. The Humboldt battery is capable, of itself, to work a cure in the nervous cases, if simply worn a part of the time. (See pp. 337, 477, and Appendix.) Dr. Charles A. Lee, of New York, testifies decidedly in favor of the more frequent resort to electro-magnetism in the various partial palsies that occur, as the sequels of various diseases. He says, " I have certainly derived signal benefit in very many