114 Dr. A. P. W. Philip on the 
vanism always rendered it stronger and brought it down from 
thirty to forty beats in the minute. 
“ From observing the good effects of galvanism on the secre- 
tions of the stomach, I was induced to make a trial of it in a 
case of deafness, accompanied with a total want of secretion of 
cerumen in the right ear. Its first application produced a watery 
secretion, which by perseverance gradually assumed the taste 
and all the other characters of cerumen. The hearing was 
greatly improved in both ears, but how far this was to be ascribed 
to the restoration of the secretion is rendered doubtful, in conse- 
quence of a tumour having at the same time been removed from 
the tympanum ofthe left ear by the repeated application of caustic. 
“« The foregoing facts you are perfectly welcome to make any 
use of, should you think them deserving of notice, and I am, 
My dear Sir, 
Very sincerely, yours, 
Henry Ear Le.” 
It appears from the foregoing statement, that in disease of 
the spinal marrow, galvanism is not only capable of performing 
the function of the diseased part of this organ, by which the 
vital actions are restored to a state of health, and the patient’s 
sufferings greatly mitigated ; but that, it also, as might @ priori 
be expected, by thus improving the general health, indirectly con- 
tributes to the cure of the spinal disease. With regard to the last 
case mentioned by Mr. Earle, in which the secretion of cerumen 
was restored by galvanism, this, it is evident, from what has 
been said, can only happen when the fault consists in a defect 
of nervous influence, and not in a diseased state of the vessels. 
When we compare the foregoing report of Mr. Earle with the 
statements which J have already had occasion to make public, 
respecting the effects of galyanism in other diseases, may we 
not hope that if in so few years such has been the result of the 
employment of this remedy on the principles above laid down, 
a more extensive experience will still extend the advantages 
derived from it. I have repeatedly seen its use more success-= 
ful than any other means in obstinate general nervous debility, 
