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repeated application of leeches, issues were made on. either 
side of the dorsal spine, and subsequently in the lumbar region. 
The issues were kept actively open, and the strictest attention 
was paid to her general health. The spine very gradually 
became less sensible, and the power over the pelvic viscera and 
lower extremities slowly returned ; still, however, her stomach 
was incapable of digesting any other food than bread and milk 
and water, her head-ach remained nearly unabated, and her 
breathing was habitually difficult. She was in this state when you 
saw her and the galvanism was first administered (December 19.) 
“ A trough containing plates of about three inches was 
employed. The positive wire was applied to the nape of the 
neck, the negative a little below the pit of the stomach. No 
sensation was at first produced by twenty plates; but after the 
sensation was excited, she could not endure more than twelve. 
The first sensation she experienced caused her to take involun- 
tarily a sudden and deep inspiration. The galvanism was 
applied for about a quarter of an hour, at the end of which time, 
her breathing became much freer than it had been for many 
months. Of this she repeatedly expressed herself perfectly 
certain, at the same time she felt considerable uneasiness at 
the stomach. She was slightly hysterical, in consequence of 
the agitation she had experienced, but her breathing was tran- 
quil during the whole evening. 
“With a view to remove the tenderness in the epigastrium, 
leeches were applied to the region of the stomach, and the 
whole plan of treatment adapted to the secondary stage of 
dyspepsia was resorted to. When the tenderness had some- 
what abated, the galvanism was repeated with more decided 
relief to the breathing, and without etngine much uneasiness at 
the stomach. 
“‘ After several applications of it, the relief she experienced 
in her breathing lasted for two or three days, and at length it 
was only necessary to repeat it occasionally. The effect of its 
administration was uniformly the same; a most sensible and 
speedy relief from a state of anxious breathing to perfect ease 
and repose. Its beneficial effects were not, however, confined 
