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clinical experiment. It is shown elsewhere that the majority of 

 them have not made any comparative use of faradization and 

 of continuous currents. 



II. — The electro-physiological experiments, made by many of 

 them, and which have served as the basis of the attacks recently 

 directed against the therapeutic use of localized faradization, 

 have been badly interpreted, or are inexact. Contrary to certain 

 assertions, the continuous constant currents and the induction 

 currents, in equivalent doses, exert an identical action upon the 

 vaso-motor constrictors. (See § II., p. 149.) 



III. — The therapeutic action of localized faradization is exerted 

 peripherally, especially in promoting local circulation, and pro- 

 bably in exciting the trophic nerves which govern nutrition. 

 (See § III., p. 153.) 



IV. — The fundamental principles of the different methods of 

 galvanization which have been lauded in their turn, have not at 

 present been expressed with sufficient clearness ; whence may be 

 explained the disagreement of experimenters with regard to the 

 results of the therapeutic application of galvanic currents. In 

 the clinical researches that I have made upon the comparative 

 therapeutic value of galvanization and faradization, I have divided 

 the former into localized gnlvanization by intermittent currents, 

 localized galvanization by permanent continuous constant currents, 

 and reflex galvanization by labile and stabile continuous constant 

 currents. (See § III., p. 191 et seq.) 



V. — A considerable number of paralytic affections — I mention 

 this in the present place before making known the result of com- 

 parative researches — may be cured by any kind of electric 

 excitation (faradization, galvanization, static electricity),' in what- 

 ever manner it may be applied. (See p. 190.) 



YL — Localized muscular galvanization by interrupted currents, 

 applied with a battery of sufficient electro-motor power, has 

 appeared to me to exert nearly the same therapeutic action as 

 localized muscular faradization ; but the latter is to be preferred, 

 because, unlike the former, it exerts no painful electrolytic action ; 

 and because the instruments which furnish the induction current 

 are of small bulk, portable, and inexpensive, while the batteries 

 which, in these cases, should be composed of a large number of 

 elements (about a hundred), are difficult of management, and only 

 applicable in the reception-room of the specialist. (See p. 192.) 



VII. — The electro-physiological phenomenon which forms the 

 principal basis of the method of reflex galvanization by continuous 

 currents extolled by Remak, — a phenomenon which consists in the 

 production of tetanoid contractions in muscles supplied by the 



