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auxiliaries of the cold bath. As there is no uncertainty respecting the happy 
results, so there should be no hesitation to adopt the remedy. The time for the 
patient to remain in the bath, till the shivering sets in, may vary from ten minutes 
to one hour and a half. Sometimes the bath is commenced at eighty-six degrees 
Fahr., and cooled down to the sixty-eight and even sixty-four degrees. A bath 
‘at eighty-two degrees has occasionally sufficed to ward off the mortal symptoms, 
commencement of asphyxia. The delirium resulting from cerebral rheumatism 
manifests itself under the form of hallucinations, melancholy, stupor, persecution 
and total perversion of character, ending in coma; other symptoms are, sleep- 
llessness, convulsions and tremblings, the last stage being asphyxia. No treat- 
ment in the history of medicine produces such prodigious results in so short a 
time, as immersion in the cold bath; it takes the patient in the moment of inert 
agony, deprived of all sentiment and reason, and in the twinkling of an eye, 
restores him to life. First, the danger imminent from asphyxia is conjured by 
‘respiration being established, the muscular tremblings are calmed and disappear. 
The delirium may not have departed—a circumstance not very important, as the 
primary point is attained—the living of the patient. Often the delirium will have 
vanished with the first bath, returning in the interval before the second; the 
‘pulse, after the bath, will have been found to have descended from 160 to 108, 
Pending the four or seven hours that may elapse after the bath, the patient will 
gradually become warm, experience a general sense of relief, then suddenly the 
temperature of the body will mount, but never will attain the number of degrees 
as before the immersion. 
There is no physical theory about electricity. Neither Faraday nor Thomp- 
‘son attempted such; hence, why the question is being discussed. Is electricity a 
form of matter, or a form of force like heat and light ? Clearly it must be either. 
Matter is all that can be perceived by the senses or put in movement be force ; 
its properties are weight, inertia, elasticity. Force is all that which produces or 
tends to produce movement of matter either by pressure, tension, attraction or 
repulsion, so as to effect a change in the repose of matter or to modify its 
movement. Matter is represented by sixty-four elements, and which have up to 
the present resisted all means of analysis; it occupies space, and is to be met — 
with under four forms, solid, liquid, gaseous and ultra gaseous; it is composed of 
molecules and atoms. An atom is the most tiny indivisible part of an element; 
a group of atoms of the same element, or of different elements, constitutes a 
molecule, and which has defined dimensions, and remains always invariably in 
ats form for each substance. The mass of a substance is the reunion of the 
molecules of which it is composed. Atoms can neither be created nor destroyed ; 
hence, matter is indestructible. We can only form an approximate idea of the 
dimensions of a molecule. According to Sir W. Thompson, if a sphere of 
water, large as a pea, were magnified to equal the volume of the earth, each 
molecule proportionally augmented would be of a volume between the sizes of | 
ca small ball of lead and an ordinary cricket ball; fifty millions of molecules 
