APPENDIX. 



SINCE the foregoing pages were printed, our attention has 

 been drawn to some further application of electricity, the results 

 of which appear to us of much importance. Dr. Radford, of 

 Manchester, was the first who suggested the application of 

 Galvanism in Uterine Inertia, and the success which attended 

 its use in his hands, has been amply confirmed by other prac- 

 titioners. In the Lying-in Charity of Guy's Hospital it has been 

 on many occasions had recourse to with the most marked advan- 

 tage. A case of this nature was published some short time 

 back ; and as it tends to show when the application of galvanism 

 is indicated, we subjoin it entire in the words of the author, 

 Mr. F. W. Cleveland. 



" I was requested to see Mary Cook, set. 39, in her sixteenth 

 confinement, on Friday morning, the sixth of June. On my 

 arrival at the house, I learned that her previous labours had 

 been tolerably good, with two or three exceptions, when they 

 had been considerably protracted from want of pains. Her 

 health has always been delicate, and for the last few weeks she 

 has had a troublesome cough, attended with copious expectoration ; 

 emaciation and occasional night-sweats symptoms which natu- 

 rally led to the opinion that she was suffering from phthisis, 

 although subsequently this diagnosis was not confirmed by a 

 physical examination of the chest. On the Sunday evening 

 prior to my visiting her, she was first attacked with premonitory 

 symptoms of labour, soon succeeded by regular and frequent 

 pains, which, on the following morning, abated, but never 

 entirely left her till the Wednesday night, when the liquor 

 amnii was discharged. At one A.M. on the Friday, the pains 



