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in restoring the due action of the lungs. 
forty cases of the habitual form of the disease. I cannot, 
therefore, from experience, speak with certainty of the effect 
of galvanism in the former. In the above case it was twice 
employed in the paroxysm, and I could observe no relief from 
it. In both instances, the patient said, that, had it not been 
used, the symptoms would have been more severe. In this 
patient, the spasmodic paroxysm was often succeeded by a 
state of habitual asthma for several weeks, in which galva- 
nism gave immediate, but temporary relief. 
Of the above cases of habitual asthma, many occurred in 
work-people of this town, who had been obliged to abandon 
their employments in consequence of it, and some of them, 
from its long continuance, without any hope of returning to 
regular work. Most of them had tried the usual means in 
vain. By the use of galvanism they were all restored to their 
employments. I have seen several of them lately, who, al- 
though they have not used the galvanism for some months, 
said, they had continued to work without any inconvenience. 
Some, in whom the disease had been wholly removed, remain- 
ed quite free from it ; some have had a return of it, and have 
derived the same advantage from the galvanism as at first. 
I have confined the application of galvanism st lunatic 
dyspnoea. I think there is reason to believe, from the expe- 
riments which I have made, that in inflammatory cases it 
would be injurious, and, in cases arising from dropsy, or any 
other mechanical impediment, little or nothing, it is evident, 
is to be expected from it. Habitual asthma is often attended 
with a languid state of the biliary system, and some fullness 
and tenderness on pressure near the pit of the stomach. If 
these are considerable, they must be relieved, previous to the 
use of the galvanism. When there is a considerable tendency 
