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

lished; the heart had received a sufficiently strong impulse ; the pulse was becoming rapidly developed, and the whole sur- face warmer. They desisted, and watched him attentively, allowing him to remain quiet for an hour. Reaction continued satisfactory, and when the hour had expired, he could be awakened by shaking him and calling his name loudly. There was no further occasion for the battery." (But this must have been no battery, but rather a magneto-electric machine, which indeed answers the very best of purposes in such a case.) The writer says further, — " Before closing this subject, I would add, that electro-mag- netism will be found highly useful in some forms of disease, particularly those of a congestive character, where oppression of the organs, and of the nervous system particularly, prevents reaction, and thus speedily destroys life. In practice, I think we frequently see cases where death seems to occur by an ob- struction, (or cessation of action) of the functions, or of those imperative organic movements which support life, more than by any absolute exhaustion of the organic functions, or of life itself. In such cases, the Faradaic currents of electro-magnet- ism, or magneto-electricity, might communicate an impulse which would renew those sympathetic actions between the organs (if no positive lesion) upon which the continuance of life depends." (See Appendix F, Note 1.) In all cases of asphyxia, electro-magnetism must be useful; and I believe it can be applied in many instances to stillborn children with the happiest effects. The author has used it thus, and would add that only a low degree of current should be so employed. Wall-Paper Poison. This is, we believe, a prodigious source of ill health, and doubtless frequently helps on some of the graver nervous affec- tions, and even the " decline." The poison from bright or vel- vety green paper-hangings (with green ground, or merely green vines or figures') is more frequently an arsenic poison, (the dark English green, and the blue, are more likely an oxide of