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to the respiration ; the powers of her stomach greatly improved, 
and she was able to digest a small quantity of meat or the yolk 
of an egg without pain. As her stomach improved, she lost 
the distressing head-ach, which had so constantly attended, as 
at one time to lead me to apprehend the existence of disease in 
the brain, having met with other cases in which scrofulous affec- 
tion had existed in the brain and spine at the same time. Her 
progress from this time was uniform, and far more rapid than it 
had been before; and in about two months, the catamenia, 
which had been suspended from the commencement of the 
disease, returned, 
“The patient was sufficiently recovered to leave the hos- 
pital, and return to her friends at Dartmouth early in 
July; at which time she was able to walk with very little 
assistance, and without experiencing the least pain in her back. 
On reviewing the circumstances of this case, I have not the 
least hesitation in stating my decided opinion of the great bene- 
fit which was derived from the employment of galvanism, not 
only in affording temporary relief to the breathing, but in im- 
proving the secretions, and thus materially contributing to. the 
ultimate recovery of the patient. I feel particularly happy 
that the patient was in a public hospital, and that the means 
were employed in the presence of many intelligent medi- 
cal friends and pupils, who were all equally satisfied with 
myself of the essential and permanent benefit which she derived 
from the administration of galvanism. 
“It was employed in two other similar cases in the same hos- 
pital, those of Ann Baillies, and Maria May, in which it pro- 
duced similar good effects, except that in one of these, the im- 
provement of the general health, although not less than in the 
other cases, did not appear to have the same beneficial effect 
on the disease of the spine. It was tried in another case cf 
spine disease, which was attended with fits of spasmodic asthma. 
These, as I was taught to expect, from the observations you 
have published on this subject, it failed to relieve. It is re- 
markable, that in the case of Ann Baillies, in which the pulse 
was from 140 to 150, and very weak, the use of the gal- 
