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

find we can shock nearly as well as by a Leyden jar, and the patient can bear it daily. I have said that electro-magnetism is our great ultimate emmenagogue ; also that it will as surely slop the menses if applied to the female during the flow. But I must add, that in cases where the flow is tardy, pale, or but partial, then, too, by this agent can it be increased in quantity and quality, and become prompt. (See Appendix E, G.) Case of Chlorosis. — Miss E., nineteen years of age, graduate of one of our highest and most fashionable female seminaries, but with decidedly enfeebled health. Her general appearance is that of a very beautiful girl, minus color and vivacity ; for she is remarkably well developed and plump, but fair and white as marble, lips and gums blanched, tongue pale, wrinkled, and in- dented, and her eyes languid. She came under the care of Dr. Edward H. Clarke, who, after finding that tonics, nutriment, and chalybeates, together with out-door and horse exercise, and the cessation of study, did not stay the anamiic and declining ten- dencies in this girl, therefore sent her to me to receive such electrical treatment as I might judge to be advantageous in her case. There was distinct systolic bellows sound of the heart; urine was about twelve ounces in every twelve hours, which was rich with albumen, epithelial casts, and crystals of the triple phosphates of ammonia and magnesia, and there was long-standing amenorrhoea. She was greatly troubled at times with intercostal neuralgia ; had a hacking cough which besieged her severely on retiring to bed, but there was no expectoration ; her lower limbs from ankle to knee not any way anasarcous, but were peculiarly plump, fair, and polished, as if beautiful statuary. The electric treatment of this case was commenced, therefore, with the view of first increasing the capillary circulation, and the endosmodic and exosmodic process. To this end I employed first a smart current of Faradaism, and then that of Galvanism, at each seance, which was repeated daily, using large metallic ball electrodes covered with wet wash-leather, with which the surface was gradually gone over, holding the balls as team elec- trodes, (with only one or two fingers between them ;) and then by polar alternations, labile movements, and sudden current