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iting acute inflammation. If this should arise, it must be repressed with P. P. Treat chronic rheumatism about three times a week. DROPSY. Use the A D current, moderate force. Give _general tonic treatment_; then place P. P. with the feet, in a vessel of warm water, or place the sponge-roll P. P. at the soles of the feet, and treat the affected parts a few minutes with N. P., to quicken the absorbents. If the disease be in the feet or lower limbs, use _long cord_ with P. P. while treating them. Next place N. P. upon the lower part of the bladder, or, what is better, immediately below the pubic articulation, and treat over the kidneys three to five minutes with P. P. Repeat the treatments about three times a week. NEURALGIA. If the disease be general in the system, moving from place to place, or causing transient acute pains here and there, give general tonic treatment, three times a week, for several weeks--perhaps a month or two, provided the case be an old one. This will invigorate the nervous system and equalize the electric action. _Relief_ will be afforded soon; but for the sake of _cure_, the treatment of an old case should be continued as here directed. If the disease be _local_, use the B D current, with as much force as the patient can bear without irritating painfulness. Treat the affected part, or parts, with P. P., placing N. P., _long cord_, upon some approximate healthy part, at a point a little lower down than the part in pain. The spine, when convenient, is commonly the best point for it. In treating the painful part, pass the electrode more or less also over the nerves adjacent to the one principally affected. Treat five to eight minutes daily. SCIATICA. This is neuralgia in an ischiatic nerve, commonly the _great_ ischiatic. Use the B D current, strong as the patient can well bear. Place the foot in warm water with N. P., or place the sponge-roll N. P. at the sole of the foot, (the former is the best,) and treat with P. P. over the painful part, and also, more or less, over adjacent parts. It is also well, in order to prevent too much exhaustion of the limb, to _reverse the poles_ every third or fourth time; but in so doing, use the _long cord_ with N. P. PARALYSIS. Take the B D current, medium force. If the paralysis be in a lower limb, place P. P., _long cord_, upon the lower lumbar vertebrae, so as to reach the hypogastric plexus, and treat with the metallic brush, N.
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