ic applications to the
affected parts (joints as well as muscles were involved) for two
weeks, Dr. M. sent patient to take electric baths. On May 25th
Mr. F. was brought in a carriage. He was unable to walk; had to
be assisted up the steps by two attendants. His arms were in a
scarcely better condition, the wrist joints especially being
exceedingly tender and painful. The first and second baths,
administered respectively on May 25th and 29th, did not effect
much change in his condition. The third bath was taken May 30th,
with the happiest results. On June 1st patient was able to come
for his fourth bath alone and on foot, and thenceforth his
recovery was very rapid. The seventh bath, taken June 7th, left
him perfectly cured, not a trace of the disease remaining. He
has been free from rheumatism since. In the first three baths
the galvanic current was employed exclusively, the muscles and
tendons being in too tender a condition to bear the
contractions induced by the faradic current. In the subsequent
baths both currents were used, according to indications.

CASE II.*--SUBACUTE RHEUMATISM. Mr. B--y, aet. 22, came for
treatment on August 27th, 1874. Had subacute rheumatism, with
considerable swelling of ankle-joints. The acute attack dated
back six weeks. Locomotion was very painful, and could be
accomplished only with the aid of a cane. A galvanic bath on the
27th and one on the 28th of August were sufficient to remove
both swelling and pain, enabling the patient to resume his
avocation.

CASE III.--SUBACUTE RHEUMATISM. J. H. K., aet. 29. In the summer
of 1873 had a very severe attack of cephalalgia, which, judging
from his subsequent history, was probably of rheumatic origin.
The attack confined him to bed four days, after which it
troubled him continuously for three months. It then abruptly
left him, to make way, apparently metastatically, for enteralgia
coupled with diarrhoea. This clung to him for five months--until
May, 1874. He was then well for a time. Late in the summer of
1874 he began to experience pain in the soles of the feet, which
shortly culminated in a more pronounced rheumatic attack than
any to which he had previously been subject. It affected chiefly
the lower extremities. When he first came under my observation
(7th October, 1874) he had been confin