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

application of electricity; using a metallic stylet, insulated and terminating in a button-like point, which he introduced into the bladder: this he does with the aid of a gum-elastic catheter, that covers the whole except the button point. The handle of the stylet is then connected with one of the wires of an electro-mag- netic machine, while the electrode of the other conductor is pressed against the pubes. Thus the induction current of elec- tricity is passed through the bladder for a quarter of an hour each day. The result is, he says, that generally the bladder retains its urine better from the very first day after the applica- tion of electricity. But this should be repeated at intervals, until the bladder recovers its full power. He reports several cases of this trouble in persons from thirty to forty years of age, in whom the affection was completely removed by means of this form and method of using electricity. Electricity is found equally capable of removing the weakness on which the enuresis of children depends. In some cases one such application of electricity removes the disease. In others it requires to be repeated at intervals. It is found that, in some weakly children, a few doses of iron confirm the cure. In con- nection with the electrical treatment, I usually prescribe in such cases one drachm of the muriatcd tincture of iron to seven drachms of simple sirup, to give the child a tea-spoonful at every meal. (See Appendix B, G.) Hernia.—The cause of this difficulty we will not here dis- cuss ; but evidently, if the relaxed fibres of the abdominal mus- cles and fascia that are concerned in bounding the " abdominal rings " can actually be toned up to a natural state of tonicity, and if the due peristaltic movement of the intestines themselves can be reestablished, we certainly shall have already proceeded far towards obliterating that condition where hernia is likely to recur. With this view we are to direct the electric influence to the patient, and particularly to the site of the " weakness." In treating these cases, we need to employ mostly the large me- tallic-ball electrode, covered with wash-leather, and to run the current towards, or through and through, the site of the rupture at one seance, and, through from the spine to all the abdominal