ELECTRICITY IN MEDICINE. 
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the electrodes, and by so doing yon will soon become convinced 
that the idea that a monthly or even weekly continuance of the 
electrical medication is essential to a cure, is absolutely fallacious. 
In nervous diseases periplural treatment often cures or palliates 
the symptoms of centric lesions. 
Local and general faradization have been utilized in a great 
variety of diseases. I have used general faradization in spinal 
meningitis, and local in pharyngoplegia, using the Macintosh 
battery. In the first case, running the current from the occiput, 
or spine, to the perineum; in the second, from the occiput to 
the pharynx, and with prompt success. 
Galvanization of the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the local 
withdrawal of sparks from the region of the larynx have been 
tried by veterinarians, with varying success, in the treatment of 
roaring (a cure must depend upon the cause). Galvano-faradiza- 
tion may be employed where both currents are indicated simul¬ 
taneously. 
All varieties of paralysis have been treated by electricians, 
and generally with good results. It must be borne in mind, how¬ 
ever, that internal medication often assists the electrical fluid in 
attaining its successful issues, and probably at times counteracts 
its beneficial results where failures are recorded. Authorities 
have agreed in human practice that interrupted kalteodic galvan¬ 
ism applied to the part in paralysis is most useful, while local 
anasthesia yields more truly to faradism. 
In the treatment of spasms or cramps the indications call for 
sedative anodic galvanization to the part, with stimulation of the 
antagonistic muscles. 
Hypersesthesia, pain, and neuralgia are undoubtedly benefited 
by the application of the galvanic anode over the seat of irrita¬ 
tion, and palliation at least may be obtained where deep-seated 
organic lesion underlie the symptoms. Functional disorders of 
the brain may be treated directly by percutaneous cerebral gal¬ 
vanization, or by reflex faradization. But in almost all cases we 
may accept it as a general rule not to institute electrical stimula¬ 
tion until inflammation has been subdued. 
The same remarks apply to the spinal cord which has been 
