ELECTRICITY IN MEDICINE. 
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the third Tuesday in March. It is to be hoped that a large gather¬ 
ing of the members will take place, as we understand onr friends in 
that city hospitaliere are making great preparations for the 
reception of those who will attend. Every effort will be made 
to render the meeting pleasant and interesting. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
ELECTRICITY IN MEDICINE. 
A paper read before the Ohto State Veterinary Medical Association by Dr. 
W. J. Torrance. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: 
It affords me much pleasure to endeavor to fulfill a privilege 
granted me by the members of this Association—namely— 
the privilege of addressing you. 
When I announce the subject of my paper, “ Electricity in 
Medicine,” you will surely pardon its brevity and my utter in¬ 
competence to deal with it. 
Electricity has as yet scarcely received its merited considera¬ 
tion and application to the healing art, by our medical confreres, 
the human physicians, while veterinarians have shamefully ig¬ 
nored it as an essential factor in their education. For this reason 
I feel that I am looking in the dark in my present effort to intro¬ 
duce a subject so undeniably in its infancy and so little practic¬ 
ally known to myself and to our profession. And while these 
assertions are made, we cannot but admit that the development of 
the science as applied to medicine and surgery has by no means 
remained at a standstill during the past ten years: for new means 
have slowly been established for its application in various diseases 
and deformities, until, to-day, it—the mysterious electrical fluid— 
is viewed by some of the most competent judges as a potent thera¬ 
peutic agent. 
Notwithstanding its undoubted efficacy, it is surprising that 
there still remains such a large class of physicians who rarely em¬ 
ploy electricity in practice, and are satisfied to sit quietly by in 
ignorance and await its development in the hands of more skillful 
and more enterprising practitioners. 
