To. draw or throw the flaid with a wooden, or even with a metal 
point, for three or four minutes per day, is fully sufficient. 
_ Cutaneous Eruptions have been successfully treated with elec- 
_ trization ; but in these cases it must be observed, that if the wooden 
_ point be kept too near the skin, so as to cause any considerable irri- — 
tation, the eruption will be caused to spread more ; but if the point 
_ be kept at about six inches distance, or further if the electric ma- — 
chine be very powerful, the eruptions will be gradually diminished — 
_ till they are quite cured. In this kind of disease, the immediate 
and general effect of the wooden point, is to occasion a warmth about 
the electrified part, which is always a sign that the electricity is - 
rightly administered. oy sigiee eps te ee eigenen = 
Scrofulous tumors—when they are just beginning, are generally 
cured by drawing the electric fluid with a wooden or metal point from 
the part. This is one of those kinds of diseases in which the action 
‘of electricity requires particularly the aid of other medicines in or- 
der to effect a cure more easily ; for scrofulous affections common- 
ly accompany a great laxity of the habit, and a general vitiation, 
which must be obviated by proper remedies. ¢ = ghee 
Locked-jaw—has in some instances been speedily cured by small — 
shocks passing through the jaws. ee OF os 
electrization. In this disease, the electric fluid must be thrown with — 
a wooden, and even sometimes with a metal point, all round the head — 
successively. Sometimes exceedingly small shocks have been admi- — 
nistered ; but these can seldom be used, because the nerves of per- — 
sons subject to this disease are so very irritable that the 4 
sparks, and sometimes even the throwing of the electric fluid witha 
wooden point, kept very near the head, throw them into convulsions. 
‘Obstructed menses,—a disease of the female sex, that often occa- 
sions the most disagreeable and alarming symptoms, is often success- _ 
fally and speedily cured by means of electricity, even when the dis- 
ase is of long ding ; and after the most powerful medicines, used 
ease is of long stan : 3 
for it, . The cases of this sort, in which 
electrization has proved useless, are so few, and the successful ones” 
so numerous, that the application of electricity, for this disease, may 
be justly considered as an efficacious and certain remedy. — 
Smali shocks, that is, about the twentieth of an inch, may be sent _ 
through the pelvis ; sparks may be taken through the clothes, from 
the parts adjacent to the seat of the disease ; and also the electric 
plying the metallic, or wooden ex- 
fluid may be transmitted, by applyin 
tremities of two directors tu the hip incontact with the clothes ; part 
of which may be removed, in case they be too thick. Those va- 
rious applications of electricity should be regulated according to the 2 
constitution of the patient, The number of shocks may be about 
twelve or fourteen. The other applications may -be continued for _ 
two or three minutes, repeating the operation every day. But ei- 
_ ther strong shocks, or a stronger application of electricity than. the 
‘patient can conveniently bear, should be carefully avoided ; for by 
those means, sometimes disagreeable symptoms are produced. — 
“The application of electricity to the cure of diseases has been, 
