reatment. This was continued for
some time without avail. Strychnia was then administered with no
better result, and after some months' treatment I told him that
I could do nothing for him. He remained without any treatment
whatever until the spring of 1874, when I advised him to try
electric baths. He took in all about half a dozen baths, which
resulted in his complete and thus far permanent restoration.

CASE XXVII. _Sexual debility._ Mr. W., aet. 32, married,
manufacturer, consulted me in February 1875. Had gradually for
about a year past lost sexual power. Was able to perform the
marital act at rare intervals only, and when he did, felt
exhausted the whole of the succeeding day. I ordered him
electric baths. He took the first on February 22d, 1875. Between
this date and March 22d, he took six baths. The sexual power had
then fully returned. I must not omit to state that during the
time he was under treatment he took, by my direction, gr. 1/25
phosphorus twice daily, which may have somewhat accelerated the
result.

CONSTIPATION.

Atony of the _muscularis_ of the intestine is admittedly the direct
cause, in most instances, of constipation. It is the condition known as
"torpor of the bowels." It is ordinarily due to abnormal innervation of
the parts. The inefficient innervation may be--and in females frequently
is--reflex, or its cause may be sought for in the central nervous
system. The condition of the voluntary abdominal muscles is likewise a
factor in the alvine process. Sluggishness of the abdominal (portal)
circulation is a not infrequent etiological concomitant of constipation,
and, finally, the conditions grouped as "dyspepsia" may form the
causative feature of a case. I have mentioned these different causes
simply in order to account to some extent for the almost wonderful
effects in this condition of electric baths. When we consider that in
every one of the morbid conditions here enumerated, electricity is a
very efficient remedy, and that for the resulting muscular atony it may
be called a specific, it will not appear surprising that a mode of
application which brings the electric influence to bear on both cause
and effect--often on a combination of several of the causes enumerated,
should be attended with such brilliant results. I have thus far met with
no failure in the electro-balneological treatment of c