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said she had not breathed so well for :aany vears. Part of the 
relief she obtained proved permanent, and when she was gal- 
vanised once a day for about ten minutes, she suffered little 
dyspnoea at any time. After she had been ‘galv anised fer eight 
or ten days, 1 deceived her in the manner just mentioned. The 
deception was complete. She told me to increase or lessen the 
force of the galvanisin, as she was accustomed to do, according 
to the sensation it produced. I obeyed her diiections by in- 
creasing or lessening the force with which I scratched the neck 
with the wire.. After I had done this for five minutes, she said 
the galvanism did not relieve her as usual, and that she felt the 
state of her breathing the same as when the operation was be- 
guu. I then allowed the galvauism to pass through the chest, 
but only through the upper part of it, the wire in front being 
applied about the middle of the sternum. She soon said that 
she felt a little relief; but although it was continued in this way 
for ten minutes, the relief was imperfect. I then directed her 
to apply the wire in front to the pit of the stomach, so that the 
galvanism passed through the whole extent of the chest, and ina 
minute and a half she said her breathing was easy, and that she 
now experienced the whole of the effect of the former applica- 
tions of the remedy. 
_ © To try how far the effect of galvauism in asthma arises 
merely from its stimulating the spinal marrow, in a young wo- 
man who had been several times galvanised in the usual way, 
the wires were applied to the nape of the neck and small of the 
back,_and thus the galvanic influence was sent along the spine for ' 
nearly a quarter of an hour. She said her breathing was easier, 
but uot so much so as on the former applications of the gal- 
yanism ; and on attempting to walk up stairs she began to pant, 
and found her breathing, when she had gone about half way, as 
difficult as before the galvanism was applied. She was then 
galvanised in the usual way for five minutes: she now said her 
breathing was quite easy, and she walked up the whole of the 
stairs without bringing on any degree of panting, or feeling any 
dyspnoea. The above experiment was made in the presence of 
four medical gentlemen. This patient, after remaining free from 
her disease about half a year, returned to the Infirmary, labour- 
ing under a slighter degree of it, and experienced immediate re= 
lief from galvanism. The disease seemed to have been renewed 
by cold, which had at the same time produced other complaints. 
This is one of the cases above alluded to in speaking of the per- 
manency of the good effects of galvanism. Ou the return of 
this patient to the Infirmary, two or three applications of gal- 
vanism, combined with means which had given no permanent 
rclief to the dyspnoea previous to her first using galvanism, now 
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