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soon removed it. When'she first used galvanism, it ‘required its 
eonstant employment once or twice a-day for several weeks to 
produce the same effect. There is reason to believe she will re- 
main well if she can avoid taking severe colds. 
<¢ Many medical gentlemen have frequently witnessed the re- 
lief afforded by galvanism in habitual asthma, and Mr. Cole, the 
house-surgeon of the Worcester Infirmary, authorises me to say, 
that no other means there employed have been equally efficacious 
in relieving this disease. 
“‘ Observations similar to the foregoing, there is reason to be- 
Heve, will be found to apply to dyspepsia; but as I have ers 
but few trials of galvanism in this disease, except where it wa 
complicated with asthma, the removal of which no doubt con- 
tributed to a more healthy action of the digestive organs, I can- 
not yet speak with certainty of its effects in this disease. In 
some, galvanism, at the time of its application, occasions a ten- 
dency to sighing; and in some, in whom it removed the dys- 
pnoea, it seemed to occasion a sense of sinking referred to the pit 
of the stomach. This occurred in several instances, and was re- 
Heved by small doses of carbonate of iron and bitters. 
¢ That I may convey to the reader as correct an idea as I can 
ef the effects of galvanism in habitual asthma, I shall concisely 
relate the particulars of a few of the most, and of the least, sue- 
cessful cases, in which it was employed. 
«* Richard Morgan, a blacksmith, at. 50, had laboured under 
severe habitual asthma for seven months, during which he had 
been better and worse for a few weeks, but never free from dys- 
pnoea. He was much troubled with a cough, the expectorated 
matter being thick, and of a yellowish colour. The dyspnoea was 
particularly severe at the time he was galvanised, and had been 
so for about a fortnight. The first application of the galvanism 
relieved him. He was galvanised only for three days, about ten 
rainutes each day, before he declared himself to be perfectly well. 
He returned to‘his work, which he had been obliged to aban- 
don, after the second application of the galvanism. After its 
third application he performed as hard werk, and with as much 
ease, as he had ever done. 
He remained free fram dyspnoea till it was renewed, several 
weeks afterwards, by his getting drunk. Galvanism relieved him 
as readily and effectually as at first. It is now ten months since 
he first used this remedy, during which he has had several re- 
turns of dyspneea, but it has never “been so severe as before he was 
galvanised ; and when it has been such as to induce him to have 
recourse to galvanism, he has always experienced from it imme- 
diate relief. He aseribes the returns of his disease to his being 
exposed to severe and sudden heats and chills. 
“ Mary 
