most facility, and is susceptible of so many modifications
that, with at best two or three tentative applications, it can be
suitably adapted to almost any given case. The results I have thus far
obtained justify me in asserting that, of the cases that are merely
functional in their nature, by far the greater majority will yield
completely to judicious electro-balneological treatment.

As to the mode of administration in this affection, I can suggest
nothing. There is so little uniformity in the manifestations of
hysteria, that it were idle to even attempt to establish anything like a
routine electro-balneological treatment. Each case must make its own
laws.

CASE VIII.* Mrs. A., aet. 28, married, sterile, from the
_clientele_ of Dr. KREMER, was referred to me on June 12th,
1874. She had been a sufferer from hysteria for a number of
years. Among the more prominent symptoms were intense
_pruritus_, transient flushing and heat of the entire surface,
with pricking sensations and headache. Six baths, in each of
which both currents were employed, sufficed to effect a complete
and permanent cure.

CASE IX.* Mrs. E., from the _clientele_ of Dr. KREHBIEL, aet.
28, married, of an exceedingly nervous temperament, had suffered
from excessive nervous irritability and prostration since her
last confinement (about a year previous to my seeing her). There
was no organic trouble, the symptoms pointing to pure functional
hysteria. She was sent for electro-balneological treatment April
21st, 1874. Six baths, in which both currents were employed,
restored her to perfect health.

NEURASTHENIA.

(NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.)

Those who are familiar with the pre-eminent qualities as a neurotic of
electricity, will not be surprised to be told of the beneficial effects
in the condition under consideration of electric baths. It is not only
in _general_ nervous exhaustion, however, that electric baths exercise
this salutary influence, but in the condition known as _cerebral
exhaustion_ likewise. Judging from my own experience, their efficacy in
this latter condition is far greater than that of local applications,
whilst they are unattended with any of the irritant and other
disagreeable effects that even with the greatest care and caution we
cannot always disassociate from galvanization of the brain. They no
doubt act here in t