annoyed by rheumatic pains, which I
considered specific. His condition was so exceedingly low, that
I decided to postpone all medication until he should be
stronger. I ordered galvano-faradic baths, i.e. the galvanic
current in the bath as an eliminative, the faradic as a tonic.
The first bath was taken on November 20th, 1873. For one month
he took the baths, and nothing else. He was then so much
stronger, that I felt justified in instituting a mild specific
course of treatment, the baths being continued as theretofore.
At the end of two months the patient was nearly as strong as
ever, was able to resume his occupation, and had gained
twenty-seven pounds in weight.

Thus far this case was published as above stated. For the sake
of the interest attaching to it, I will now proceed to give its
further history. Mr. L. remained to all appearances well until
July, 1874, when he commenced to suffer from headache and
constipation. On the 23d of August following, while I was absent
from the city, he presented himself to the gentleman who
attended to my practice during my absence, with paralysis of the
external rectus muscle of the left eye. He also consulted a
specialist, who pronounced the paralysis rheumatic. When I
returned from the country he presented himself for treatment. I
commenced a series of daily electric applications to the
affected muscle, which failed to respond to the faradic current,
but contracted very readily when the slowly interrupted galvanic
current was employed. As I had strong suspicions that syphilis
was at the bottom of the trouble, I also administered iodide of
potassium in gradually increasing doses--not however until
electrization and strychnia employed for some weeks had failed
to do any good. The administration of the iodide met with no
better success. The patient's general health gradually declined.
On October 22d, he complained of numbness in the left leg, which
gradually increased, the leg at the same time becoming paretic,
so that the patient required the aid of a cane for ordinary
locomotion. His condition now became rapidly worse. His
movements became ataxic. Anaesthesia of the bladder, paresis of
this and the intestine, with obstinate constipation, loss of
appetite, emaciation, etc., rapidly supervened. I suspected the
development of _gumm