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more intense results may be expected when a patient, 

 as doubtless often happens, takes an electric bath 

 under the influence of a drug. There also seems to 

 be some reason for supposing that the altitude of a 

 place may contribute in some measure to the ultimate 

 effect produced by electrification. For instance, if we 

 suppose a person to go suddenly from sea-level to a 

 locality 1,000 or 2,000 feet higher, and to undergo 

 electrical treatment for some weeks, it is likely that 

 the nervous rhythm would be considerably iafluenced 

 by the diminution of atmospheric pressure, and that 

 the molecules of the nerve-cells would be tuned in 

 their movements to expansion rather than to contrac- 

 tion. When, however, electric baths are taken very 

 frequently, the intense vibration may, in the long-run, 

 exert an expanding or relaxing influence which will 

 outweigh all other influences. 



