dren are certainly relieved by a weak current. It has to be repeated more than once, however. Ever since the first appearance of electricity as a remedial agent, it has been used against neuralgia, and every writer on the subject hau reported cases successfully treated. We regret that Dr. Althaus does not enter into more details on this subject-he gives but two cases (pages 318, 320), one of tic douloureux, the other of sciatica. It results from the general experience of those physicians who

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... e employed electricity, that most neuralgias, not symptomatic of other disease, are readily amenable to it, and generally in a shorter time than by other remedies ; on the other hand, some cases show that the use of it has aggravated the evil instead of diminishing it ; this may possibly have been owing to the wrong direction of the current, it being known that a direct current diminishes the sensibility of the nerve, while an inverse one augments it.