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

to express in words the rapid and most extraordinary relief— as by a charm —that was afforded by the insertion of the needles. Beyond the narration of the case, I have forborne to offer any remarks.' " Where there is a constitutional origin of such pain, in a recent or old case, as organic disease, inflammation, or inflam- matory rheumatism, or hepatic engorgement, no permanent relief can reasonably be looked for from acu-puncture, nor even from galvano-puncture. But as the editor of the London Lan- cet says, " In all cases of rheumatic and neuralgic pains, either acute or chronic, whether lumbago, sciatica, or pleurodynia, or pains of an erratic kind, no matter where situated, if not de- pending upon an inflammatory state, or upon a constitutional origin, or upon organic disease, and provided the patient is most comfortable when warm, and is decidedly relieved by the application of heat — in all these cases, it may, I think, be confidently affirmed that they will be singularly benefited by acu-puncture, which will not only afford relief, but in most instances will effect a cure." And where acu-puncture fails, there often galvano-puncture is entirely victorious. Besides, a less number of needles, and less length of time of insertion, and a less number of insertions, are required by the latter in order to be successful. (See p. 477, and Appendix F, G.) Un-united Fractures of Bones. A case of fracture of the thigh bone is reported by Dr. Hall, of the York County Hospital, as having been cured by galvanic currents, in the following manner: He introduced a fine but long acu-puncture needle into each side of the limb, so that their points came near the inter-space between the fractured ends of the bone, and thus he passed, for five minutes, a current of moderate, continuous, and primary galvanism. This operation was repeated every day for about a fortnight, and a cure result- ed. The fracture of this leg bone having been very movable, and having existed thus un-united for more than a year, had resisted every other means that had been attempted.