in restoring the due action of the lungs. 3 1 
extent of the chest, and, in a minute and a half, she said her 
breathing was easy, and that she now experienced the whole 
of the effect of the former applications of the remedy. 
To try how far the effect of galvanism in asthma arises 
merely from its stimulating the spinal marrow, in a young 
woman who had been several times galvanised in the usual 
way, and in whom it eventually performed a permanent 
cure,* the wires were applied to the nape of the neck and 
small of the back, and thus the galvanic influence was sent 
along the spine for nearly a quarter of an hour. She said 
her breathing was easier, but not so much so as on the 
former applications of the galvanism ; and on attempting to 
walk up stairs she began to pant, and found her breathing, 
when she had gone about half way, as difficult as before the 
application of the galvanism. She was then galvanised in the 
usual way for five minutes : she now said her breathing was 
quite easy, and she walked up the whole of the stairs without 
bringing on any degree of panting, or feeling any dyspnoea. 
This experiment was made in the presence of four medical 
gentlemen. 
Many medical gentlemen have frequently witnessed the 
relief afffrded by galvanism in habitual asthma, and Mr. Coee, 
the house surgeon of the Worcester Infirmary authorises 
me to say, that no other means there employed have been 
equally efficacious in relieving this disease. 
* This patient, after remaining free from her disease for about half a year, has, 
since the above was written, returned to the infirmary, labouring under a slighter 
degree of it, and again experienced immediate relief from galvanism. The disease 
seemed to have been renewed by cold, which had at the same time produced other 
complaints. 
Worcester, November 4th, 1816. 
