onstipation.

In the majority of cases the following method has proven the most
efficient. The first ten minutes of the bath should be devoted to the
administration of a galvanic current, as intense as can comfortably be
borne by the patient. The one pole should be connected with the
head-electrode, the other, by means of the surface board, applied
alternately, to the epigastrium, chiefly, and to the hypogastric region.
The current should a portion of the time be ascending, the rest
descending. Occasionally the current should be rapidly reversed by means
of the commutator, the intensity however having been previously reduced,
in order to avoid too severe a shock; this will cause efficient
contractions of the abdominal _parietes_, and probably also of the
intestinal _muscularis_. The second ten minutes of the bath should be
devoted to faradization, employed in the same manner as the previous
galvanization, only that here the direction of the current is
immaterial, and no reversals are requisite. The current should be of
sufficient intensity to produce energetic but not painful contractions
of the abdominal parietes.

CASE XXVIII. Mrs. * *, aet. 55, in average health, without
however being robust, had suffered from constipation for about
thirty years. She had had every possible medicinal treatment,
with no avail. Nothing had ever ameliorated her condition.
Without the aid of a cathartic, her bowels moved but once every
week or ten days. She was of course compelled frequently to
resort to laxatives. In the fall of 1873 I ordered her electric
baths. She was not very energetic in anything, and this lack of
energy caused her to take the baths less frequently than I
desired her to. Had she taken them regularly, she would probably
have been restored in as many weeks as it took months to effect
her restoration. As it was, she took some thirty baths in the
course of about fifteen months. For nearly a year past she has
had a passage every day with the utmost regularity. No adjuvant
treatment was employed in this case.

CASE XXIX.* Emil Miller, a bright child two years of age, was
brought for treatment July 7th, 1874. He had suffered from
obstinate constipation almost from his birth. Had been under the
care of several physicians, but had never received any benefit
from treatment. Even with the aid of powerful cathartics, given
in doses suitable