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ELECTRO-MAGNETISM,
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CURE OP DISEASE.
Designed to accompany KINNE'S MAGNETO-ELECTRIC AND
 ELECTRO-MAGNETIC MACHINE, containing instructions for
       its use, and Rett ronee to Cases of I'ractice.
 BY WILLIAM W. KINNE, M. D., 628 Broadway.




E. L. HOUGHTON, Agent, 38 Cedar Street, N. Y.
         ONE DOOR WEST OF WILLIAM ST.
         NEW YORK :

Printed by B. R. BARLOW, 57 ANN STREET.
1852. 
       K55»

FtLVA  1)..2S40  .   Tf„5
    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
                 E. L. HOUGHTON, Agent,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the  United States for the
               Southern  District of New York. 
     MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY,
                         OR
ELECTRO-MAGNETISM,
                 MEDICALLY APPLIED TO
           THE CURE  OF  DISEASE.
  The application of the above agent, to the cure of those dis-
eases for which he deemed it appropriate, has engaged the atten-
tion of the Author for the last eight years, almost constantly, as
the prosecution of his professional duties gave occasion,—and
as a matter of course, we shall claim some experience, which we
believe has matured knowledge enough  to  entitle it to the
term science, without assumption or arrogance  on our part.
In detailing the cases and diseases, in which we deem it highly
serviceable,  we shall  be careful not to  mention a disease,
in which we believe the physician can get along as well  with-
out  as with  it, or, we will say, much more  certainly, and in
less  time, obtain a more perfect cure, with greatly less liability
to relapse.
   In these few pages, that are designed only as a hand-book
to accompany the Machiues, and direct in  a particular manner
the mode we have found the most successful, under the different
circumstances iu which we would recommend its use ; it need
not  be  expected that we are going into an elaborate and
thoroughly scientific discussion, to prove  beyond  all question
or dispute, every thing we state, to make  it clear to the  scien-
tific  physician, and equally clear to an unlettered man, because
it would extend the size of this book beyoud its appropriate
limits.
   We intend to follow this  little volume with  another, of  a
larger size, the design c f which will be to treat the whole sub-
 ject fully, in as scientific a manner as the present state of our
knowledge will allow, in which  work we shall try to embody
all that is known on this most interesting subject that has been
published, and we shall here take the liberty of refering  every
one, that wishes a more full elucidation of every subject men-
tioned in this book, to the other volume, iu which they will find
all matters pertaining to Electricity and Magnetism, as applica-
 ble  to the cure or treatment  of disease, fuliy discussed. 
4                  MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
  It may not be improper here to slate, that if this band-book
should fall (as we sincerely hope it may) into the hands of in-
telligent Physicians, who are not practically acquainted with
this subject, they may possibly be disposed to lay it down with
a casual look only, and pass it over in a careless way, without
thought or  reflection.  To such we  say, if they wish to ask
any questions, in relation to the subject proposed to be treated
here, or rather spoken of here and treated of in another vol-
ume, we would simply refer them to it.
  As some statements of cures that will barely be mentioned
here, with the mode of using the apparatus, may seem to many
well read men in the profession, as almost beyond belief; and
they may be inclined to give  the  impression to those who na-
turally look to them  for an opinion  candidly expressed, that
the story was too strongly  colored, we simply say that nearly
all our patients thus treated are  still  alive, and can speak for
themselves :  and those three or four that are not, have friends
living, and we shall take pleasure in refering to them person-
ally, as we have that privilege, as well as to  several profes-
sional gentlemen of eminence in  and out of the city, who are
both living and  willing witnesses on personal application, to
nearly all the cases refered to.
  For the reason above stated, that nearly all the patients that
have been the special subjects of this mode of treatment are
still living, their names and residences will be omitted in the
report of cases in the large volume,  and in the mere mention
of the cases in this pamphlet,  as a matter of delicacy, but will
be cheerfully given on application to the author.
  Some of our  co-laborers in  the profession may be led to
imagine also from the manner in which we speak of Magnetism
that we would consider it "a  cure all," or as among the "infa-
lible remedies" of  the day, so  ridiculously exhibited  in all the
journals :  far from it, we consider it an invaluable remedy in
a vastly more extensive application than has been, or is now,
generally understood,  or  conceded by the profession, and
ought in all cases to be in the hands of,  and directed solely by
intelligent  professional men,  who well  understand the details
of  Anatomy, and  principles of Physiology, as well  as theory
of disease, in order  to obtain its advantages, and then  there
must be many failurqs, if you have "a machine of faulty mag-
netic arrangement in its structure, which no one can decide
if they have not made the matter a special object of study and
experiment. 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.
5
  It is to be understood also that we prescribe all those reme-
dies when the case requires them, that we used before we em-
ployed  this agent,  with some modifications and exceptions.
The exceptions are, that some  cases require  no other remedy,
and get perfectly well in a much less time than with any other
mode without magnetism, as we call it, or electricity, as it is
generally called by  others; and this fact to us, is  a sufficient
reason for  so doing.  The modifications are that in many ca-
ses we do not find occasion for using more than from one-fourth
to one-tenth of the medicine  that would be called for without
it, and those we use, are much more potent in their effect, and
as  cures are usually effected in from one-third to one-half the
usual time, there is no  occasion for,  nor chance to use  as
much  other medicine,  and the least medicine taken is always
best, after having produced the effect desired.
   The reason why, when we judge it necessary to use other
remedies, we combine magnetism with them, if  the case be a
proper one for the use  of that agent, is because they make
each other more efficient, and recovery is made more certain, in
less time, and we deem that sufficient  cause for the union  of
all the means we can get, and some cases positively cannot be
cured without both.
   It  should be distinctly borne in  mind, by both  the profes-
sional and non-professional reader, that we  are  speaking now
only of a class of diseases to which  we have especially devo-
ted our attention for the last eight years, under  the general
head of all forms of Scrofula,  Nervous Diseases, Rheumatism,
Deformities of Spine and Limbs, Parralysis, Female Weak-
nesses, and Chronic Diseases  generally, and that we are refer-
 ing to none of the common forms of acute disease, except Spas-
 modic  Affections, such as Colic of any form, which is perfectly
 under the control of this agent, as will be seen by cases  ad-
 duced.
    We need make  no apologies for an honest effort, however
 feeble, to  introduce to our co-laborers in so noble  a profession
 as the healing art, a more extended application of an old reme-
 dy or agent, in a new form, in many forms of disease wherein
 its efficacy may have been considered doubtful, as an agent of
 great power and  usefulness to accomplish some objects for
 which nothing can be substituted of equal efficacy.
    The great success  which  has  attended  the use of Elec-
 tricity in some hands, and the  failuie of it  in others,  must of
 course, depend upon two or  three  plain  circumstances.  One 
6                  MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
 may have misjudged the case for want of observation, and ex-
 perience, another had a machine that was all intensity  and no
 quantity, and hence not magnetic in  its structure, and  effect,
 and therefore  not tonic  and anodyne in its influence, hence,
 in many cases where the agent is of immense value, it must fail.
 Again, there may have been a want of the proper mode of ita
 application, to  secure the desired effect, all of which  it will be
 the desire of the author to point out and obviate.
   Again, its detail of application, and the labour of doing the
 same,  is too often left to persons entirely unlettered, and of no
 skill;  and  the  hitherto want of proper instructions, in suffi-
 cient detail, have given rise in the great majority of cases, to
 random modes of application, and if relief came from it, it was
 a matter of chance altogether, rather than certainty.
   When cases  for its use are properly judged,  and the  ap-
 plication properly made, there is no  more uncertainty  or
 doubt  about the result that will follow, than if you take a suit-
 able dose of opium, that,  in due time you  will lose all  sense
 of pain, and feel inclined to sleep, and there need bo no more
 uncertainty of  obtaining the legitimate results of Electricity,
 ifyou^ave a properly constructed machine of a suitable mag-
 netic arrangement, in the  one case than the other.
  In this city we are aware that the remedy  lias been for the
 most jjihrt, in the hands  of unprofessional  men, cmpyrics and
 seventh sons, and in one  instance, if we  may believe the ad-
 vertise nent, a seventh son  of a seventh son,  who  may be sup-
 posed 10 know as much about diseases, and  means proper  to
 restore them, as  children, except they may be, as they claim
in some instances to have been, the subjects of a special reve-
lation,  and by divine appointment  commissioned to heal; and
strange to say, some  of our doctors have permitted  (heir p 1-
tients to go to  them, either  for want of time, knowledge, en-
 ergy or industry to do it themselves.
  The author is aware that in the great labour and  hurry of
business, with  those professional gentlemen  who do the  great
proportion of the  business of this city, it would be impossible
for them in  a  general practice, to do the drudgery of apply-
 ing electricity  themselves, hence their manifest duty to put it
 into the hands of an experienced operator of known skill
  Some of the physicians who have  an extensive practice  in
this city, have been in the habit  of calling on the author when
 they had a case which they believed would be benefited there-
 by, either for  his judgment respecting its utility, or to make 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.                  7
the application, and we  are  disposed  here to  say  to medical
men, we shall take pleasure when called on by them, or at
their instance, for either an  opinion or to serve a patient with
electricity, in rendering either or both, in a manner satisfacto-
ry to them and their interests.
  On the occasion of the great calamity at the Ninth Ward
Schoolhouse, where over forty  children  were ushered into
eternity in a few minutes, only  one was saved, and that was
by the prompt  application of Electro-Magnetism  by a physi-
cian who understood  its uses and  powers, and was prepared
to do his duty.   It is as easy to believe that all of those children,
except those that struck on the bare floor, might have been
saved, if proper and prompt  means had been used, such as that
physician  did  use, namely,  an Electro-Magnetic Machine, to
re-animate and  revivify the vital spark, and set the  whole
animal machinery in  motion, which  had stopped  only  (from
the stunning concussion of the fall,) and were not dead.
  It is just as certain, that  they all  might have been saved,
that had not their  skulls or their chest and  ribs broken, as
one, for it was only suffocation, and  so severe that reaction
would not take place without help ; and in many cases it might
have been produced  as  long  as fifteen minutes after the fall,
and some  doubtless much longer, and  one machine alone, in
prompt and  expert hands, should have saved eight or ten, and
one minute to each child with a proper machine well directed,
would have  been sufficient to set the heart and lungs in motion,
of course  but  feebly  at first, and then it could  be passed to
another, and another,  and so on,  till it could come around to
the first again, to strengthen more the action of the heart and
lungs, and of course all the functions and powers of life.   It
was stated as a distinct fact, by the coroner, that almost all the
children that were dead, exhibited scarce any signs of bruises
or violence,  a  conclusive argument that they were only stun-
ned, or in a state of suspended animation, which is positively
under the control of these means promptly applied, and a host
of other conditions equally  fatal in their  consequences with
ordinary remedies, (because you  can give nothing by the
mouth;) for instance, an overdose of opium  in any form, a
state of dead drunkenness,  a blow on the pit  of the stomach,
on the throat,  under  the ear, on the  head, recent drowning,
suspended animation from gases, any stunning  and  violent fall,
catelepsy, and iu fact  all and  any of those  conditions in which
the functions of life  are suddenly interrupted and suspended 
8                  magneto-electricity
   for a time, which must result in death, if reaction be not with-
   in a few  minutes produced.   We say  all of these conditions
   are positively in the control of this agent, and the  undue
   effect of chloroform would be  overcome  by it if promptly
   used.
      It will not be long before a physician will be just as sure to
   be provided with a magnetic machine as he is now, or has been
   for fifty years  back, with a common  lancet, that it shall be a
   part and  parcel of every family medicine chest,  as  it is  not
   unfrequent. that children fall, or get an over dose of opium in
   some form, have spasms and  colic, which, with this little man-
   ual in the hands of a sensible judicious  mother, could always
   be promptly remedied before a doctor could get to the house;
   that  a ship will not be allowed to go to sea without being pro-
   vided with a Magneto-Electric Machine, as frequent occasion
   offers for its prompt use in drowning, in  which state we verily
   believe that a resuscitation may be produced  as late as thirty
   minutes after immersion, in some instances, where vitality is
   strong in the subject; stunning falls and blows also frequently
   occur; colic it will stop  at once, and we believe  confidently
   from  the effects of it in other conditions of feeble vitality and
   deficient nutrition, that  scurvy  nor rheumatism,  both  great
   scourges of a seafaring life, cannot exist in a person that will
   use this  agent  every day.  An army surgeon will not admit
   that he is equiped without it for camp service, and they are as
   necessary to a soldier as to a citizen in private life, and as ex-
   haustion is so easily controlled with them by imparting to the
   patient the elements of energy and life, from  whatever  cause
   produced, as from excessive loss of blood, exhausting and pro-
   tracted  disease, or injury, and from mortification, &c, it is
   scarcely possible, that any army or  navy surgeon, or  captain
   will any longer allow themselves and men to be  unprovided
   with  a  means  so incalculable in its benefits under such a va-
   riety of circumstances, and the saying of one human being (as
   an important officer of a ship or army),  may decide the event
»  of an enterprise or campaign.   In the active engagements of
   an army, men are often  destroyed by the stunning concussion
   of a  cannon ball  passing near the head or  stomach  without
   their being actually wounded, or their skin broken, from the
   violence of the shock given to the nervous system—in all such
   cases^ouhave a perfect remedy with this agent timely applied.
   When human  life is properly valued by our civil  authorities,
   every police station will be furnished with the ready means 
medically applikd.                  9
  When human life is properly estimated by the civil authori-
ties, every police station will be  furnished with the facilities
which  this agent affords for immediately applying a remedy
that will overcome the action  of opium and similar narcotic
poisons, and furnish relief in all of the before-mentioned con-
ditions from casualties.
  Railroad trains and steamboats should also be furnished with
this apparatus.  A Magneto-Electric machine  is always in a
state ready for application, and there is never more trouble to
set  it in action  than a watch, nor is it more likely to get out of
order; and  any body  that can  wind  it  up,  and   read  the
directions that are given in this little  book for its use, under
different circumstances, can apply it  properly.
  Look at the emergencies that sometimes  arise in a moment
with an  accoucheur  or midwife, when the mother may  be
saved from a fatal flooding by its  timely use, in half a minute;
or a child apparently  still born, be made to give signs of re-
turning life and animation almost instantly.  Joy and gladness
pervades every countenance in an instant, when attended by a
professional man fully up  to the  times  and improvements in
his  profession, where  only a moment before the most awful
and impending consequences awaited and threatened to cover
a family's hopes and happiness in ruin and mourning.   Such
a physician indeed is a ministering angel, spreading hope, com-
fort and  happiness around him.   In  him merit would receive
its reward, and ignorance and assumption would soon be taught
their proper level, and learn the  mistake  of their lives, that
they are engaged in the wrong business
KIND, QUALITY, AND  BEST FORM OF MAGNETO-ELEC-
      TRIC AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC APPARATUS
              FOR  MEDICAL   PURPOSES.
It is  quite proper in this connection that we should give a
general idea of the various sources of Electricity, Galvanism,
or Magnetism, as the case may be, that is designed for medical
use.                                                *
  In this handbook, which is only designed to accompany the
machines, and serve as a mere guide to the mode of their ap- 
10                 magneto-electricity
 plication,which we have found most serviceable, which shall also
 contain a simple enumeration of the diseases to which we have
 applied this agent, it can by no means be supposed that we can
 enter into its history or philosophy ; but must reserve all those
 matters for the volume that is to follow, on the subject of the
 Magnetic  treatment  of disease.  Therefore we  shall  confiuo
 ourselves to the mention of some of the most common means of
 obtaining the agent; different apparatus for that purpose ; their
 qualities ; such as are good, and such as are good for nothing,
 in a comparative sense ; and a statement of some of the reasons
 why they are. useless, as compared with others differently ar-
 ranged.
   First.—The Common Electric  Machine, where the current
 is obtained from a glass plate,  or  cylinder, is of no value (as
 compared with other arrangements hereafter mentioned,) as a
 medical agent, and is of use only  in cases  of palsy or paraly-
 sis, and in  conditions of great  torpor  of the nervous  system.
 In all other forms  of disease it is as likely to do injury as good,
 and more  so,  if the shocks be strong, especially in  highly
 nervous persons, as it will increase nervous sensibility,  and of
 course do harm.
   Second.—The same general remarks arc equally applicable
 to the current as  obtained from the  Galvanic Battery, when-
 ever it is given in shocks  as  from a large or strong battery.
 This form of obtaining the  current is only useful for surgical
 purposes, as for the cure of Aneurism, Nevae Materni, Cataract,
 &c, (in which cases you  do  not use shocks,) and  for some
 other forms of disease where  a very small  current is wanted,
 applied constantly, on one or more parts of the person, where
 no shocks are obtained or desired.
  A very small arrangement where the current of Galvanism
 is used, is always best, as a large  or strong one will derange
and  unsettle  healthy nervous  functions, operating  like small
strokes of lightning.   It is certain that if Electricity and Gal-
vanism are indiscriminately used,  we should do much injury,
where in the majority of cases, Magneto-Electricity would be
highly useful, if not indispensable.
  It now remains for us to speak  of the more common appa-
ratus lately in use,  called Electro-Magnetic  machines, of a
great variety  of form and  arrangement, for  the purpose of
giving to a patient a current, sometimes called galvanism, by
some electricity, and by others indiscriminately one or the other
whichever  they utter  first,  and by some Electro-Magnetism 
medically applied.                  11
which, when the current is obtained from this latter apparatus,
is  doubtless much more correct.   We shall assume to call it
Magnetism, as being in our judgment most correct, and yet it
is  originally Electricity in different forms; combinations and
arranoements modify the result, or make  a new compound.
We cannot illustrate" it  better than by saying that common wa-
ter is composed of certain proportions of oxygen  and hydro-
gen, and  yet oxygen and  hydrogen gas put together in their
proper proportions will not make water,  till something else
is  done.   Now pass a current of electricity, galvanism, or mag-
netism through the gases  and they become water, pure, lim-
pid, and tasteless, so instantaneously that you cannot  see  the
change.   Now it is neither oxygen nor hydrogen, nor  any-
thing in the least degree like them ;  it is water.  And so we say
that°the effect of combination and arrangement gives a result,
Magnetism, as the therapeutic effect of the machines in diseased
human subjects.   It may not be known to  all, that  magnetism
in the human subject in a  state of  health,  and  proper degree
of streno-th, produces no sensible effect whatever, unless it be
to make health more perfect and vigorous, as  in one instance
which came under our immediate  notice, in which  the person
was in the habit of passing a current of magnetism through his
system for from two to five hours at a  lime, according to cir-
cumstances, and the only change perceptible was an entire dis-
appearance of a disease commonly known as Dyspepsia ;  the
return of an excellent appetite ; an entire release from Rheu-
matism which  annually attacked him, from his  youth up ; so
severely  as to  render him  nearly helpless;  and instead of
weighing from  12S to 135 pounds, as an extreme  in good
heaith, Ins weight, during the last eight years, has ranged from
17,5 to  1S6 pounds, with a continual desire for  exercise and
fresh air,  and an increasing strength and vigor  under ordinary
labors.  From this and similar cases, we infer  that the  agent
which we call  Magnetism is a natural agent, as water or air ;
and  that  the  agent   is natural  to all  living  matter in  a
certain degree, and that all beings are provided by nature with
means to supply it from natural sources.   When  the means,
sources and supply are  not interfered with by disease, accident,
or the common causes  that interfere with the functions neces-
sary to health, of course we  are well ;  but when deranged, the
magnetic forces are also deranged, equilibrium destroyed, and
the Magnetic machine furnishes the source  of an artificial sup-
ply of what we call Vitality, the vital force  of animal functions 
12                magneto-electricity
which  constitutes  health.   We feel satisfied  that  the  agent
afforded by Electro-Magnetic and Magneto-Electric arrange-
ments  is vastly superior as a remedial agent to the primary
currents obtained from the two first arrangements spoken  of,
because it is Magnetic, and the machines also are relatively
valuable the  one to the other, as one is more magnetic than
the other.
  Third.—We come to consider those forms of apparatus that
are, under all circumstances, better than either of the afore-
mentioned, because they are, or ought to be, Magnetic in their
arrangement, and hence their  great value under circumstan-
ces where either of the other two, may do much harm.
  Electro-Magnetic Machines are such as derive their current
from  a battery by the decomposition  of metals  with acids,
which is conducted by wires, from the battery through a coil
of  insulated coarse wire, (being the quantity coil,) inducing
a secondary current in a coil of fine  insulated copper wire,
(which is the intensity coil,) and is  taken off by means of con-
ductors to use on  the patient.  In  the centre of the coil of
coarse copper wire is  a large space filled up with a bundle of
soft iron wire, of the length of the  coil surrounding it, which
constitutes the Magnetic Arrangement, upon which the Ma-
chine  chiefly depends for its excellence as  a remedial agent,
and is valuable  only as the relation between the quantity coil
and the magnetic arrangements are maintained ;  and in the
instruments  here  described, the variation is made only in the
intensity  coil, which varies the sensible effect of the shock, and
never alters its magnetic force. In all others, the sense of the
power of the shock is varied  by altering  its magnetic force,
 leaving the intensity the same ; and this is the sole cause why
 many nervous  and  delicate  people have  either received  no
 benefit from the use of this  agent, or a positive  injury may
 have  followed.   For,  to the same  extent  they withdrew the
 bundle of wires from  the hollow of the cylinder of wire, they
 reduced the magnetic  force of the machine, and it approached
 in quality the two forms first mentioned, and lost its anodyne
 and tonic properties, the motive force, or vitality of the agent.
 Hence no machine of this kind should be employed where the
 bundle of wire is to be drawn out to diminish the sensible force
 of the current, as that  injures or destroys the agent, as a rem-
 edy.  Again, the quantity coil of wire should  have a proper
 relation to the  Magnetic quality, while probably the facts are
 that nine out often of the Electro-Magnetic machines that are 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.                  13
found in market, are constructed in such a mariner  that, in
order to mod^V  or weaken  the  sensible strength  of the cur-
lc.i, you u.c  compelled to  draw out the bundle of sott wire,
and thereby in the same proportion  to destroy the best quality
or  magnetic force of the machine.   Hence result the  many
failures in the use of them.   Being  designed and arranged by
mere mechanics who know nothing of their use, or what is essen-
tial to render  them valuable as medical agents, the great majo-
rity of those we  have seen, and  we  have examined nearly all
that are manufactured in this country, are arranged for inten-
sity, or to give strong shocks, without any relation  to quantity,
the very quality  which renders these machines of vastly more
extended  benefit, when properly made, than  the  simple pri-
mary galvanic or electric current; and this is the main and al-
most the only reason why medical men have been disappointed
 in  the results  desired to be obtained, in many cases,  where their
judgment was correct.  Again,  their intensity arrangement is
 generally so high, that in order to  reduce the strength to suit
 the case of a child, or a delicate  and sensitive person, you have
 to  draw your induced magnet almost out of the coil,  or helix,
 and you  have a current all intensity, and the least degree of
 magnetism, so that indeed, in a highly nervous and  irritable
 case, you have  a machine unfit for them to  touch,—neither
 anodyne, tonic, or strengthening—while in those that are made
 properly, as  in our machine, the  magnetic quality is never
 changed, it is always the  same, the intensity is alone varied,
 or that part which gives the force  to the shock, without alter-
 ing its magnetic quantity or quality.
    The  opinion  of many, that the strength of  the sensation is
 the only essential quality in  the instrument, is therefore erro-
 neous.   The truth  is, that it has  very  little  to  do  with the
 quality or value of the agent as a remedy.
    Fourth.—Magneto-Electric  Machines are those that derive
 their primary current from a permanent magnet,  by  means of
 a  revolving armiture and helix of insulated copper wire against
 the magnet,  taking  the induced current for use  through the
 conductors to the patient, and giving the best agent of any, for
 the cure  of  disease ; and  may be  so constructed as to  be of
 equal value  for all surgical purposes hereinafter mentioned.
  There  are some objects to be  attained in the practice of sur-
  gery that require an especial arrangement.
    This machine requires  no battery, acids, nor  consumption
  of metal, or cost  to  run  it.   It  is moved by a spring, and 
14
magneto-electricity
wound up  like a watch, may go by a  weight like a clock, or
be turned by a crank ;  and if not injured by bad treatment or
accident, will last a lifetime.  The quantity and magnetic for-
ces of the  machine are always the same, as well as the inten-
sity.  The  variation of the  sensible shock is made by varying
the amount of the primary current.
  These machines are  arranged to give great rapidity to the
interruption of the current, and hence are free from those  disa-
greeable, jerking, and  injurious  sensations, that  all machines
of this kind have heretofore given ; and as the primary cur-
rent in this form is magnetism, they are magnetic and electric.
  Fifth.—It cannot be too strongly urged never to apply any
of the forms of electricity or magnetism directly to the brain,
except it be  known before  beginning  that  the  machine is
brought to the weakest possible power,  and then it may be very
gradually increased to what the patient may  well bear.  It is
always best applied to the head through the hand, first wetting
the hair to  the skin over the place to which it is to be applied.
   The above rule for  beginning with  any new patient in the
application of magnetism to any  part of the body is important,
especially to children and nervously sensitive persons of either
sex, as the  force is readily increased by degrees, till it is ascer-
tained what they can bear.  If it ever is wanted stronger than
the machine  usually gives, when all the strength is  on, the
place where it is desirable to apply it can be wet with vinegar,
or salt and water, either of which will much increase its force:
and in many instances  of disease of the skin or surface of the
body, it increases its efficacy.
   Again, it is expected under all circumstances where either
or both poles are applied to  the skin  or surface of the body,
other than  in the  hands, that  the poles will be covered with a
soft sponge and wet.  If sponge cannot be had, cloth or cham-
moise leather will do ;  and in some cases of skin  disease the
sponges  may be wet with salt and water, or vinegar, with in-
creased benefit.
   We know of  no circumstances where  any  exposure of
the  body,  necessary  in using  the machine,  is likely to ex-
pose the patient, to take cold, unless  it might be in inflam-
matory rheumatism, or neuralgia, in which cases the patient
should be  screened from  cold  air, though we never knew of
any unpleasant consequences, arising from any necessary expo-
sure in a room  of comfortable  temperature, and  believe the
influence of the agent to be a protection against such danger. 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.
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                          Fie. 1.
                     DR. KINNE'S

 MAGNETO-ELECTRIC  MACHINES,

                  FOE MEDICAL PUBPOSES,
                      {Patent applied far.)

   (Manufactured and Improved by A.  DAVIS, late of Boston.)

  Fig. 1.—Represents  a self-operating  machine for the above pur-
poses.
  A. A.—A box containing a machine.
  B__The key by which it is wound up and set in motion.
  The  little brass  head in front,  of  the box at the left of the
keyhole is a stop; by crowding it  in, it stops the machine, and pull-
in" it out lets it run when wound up.
  £__The brass head, at the left hand end of the box, is attached
by a wire to a piece of iron across the  end  of the Magnet,  on the
back side, which is an armature,  and also regulates the strength  of
the current—by crowding it on to weaken it, and pulling it off  to
strengthen it, and when the Machine is out of use it should  always
be left on.                          .,,,-,.
  f f__Conducting wires  introduced into  the holes in the brass
heada in the end of the box.
  g  g __Thc poles or handles to  apply to the patient, with sponges
tied on to them, which should be  wet when used.
  The wooden ends are to take hold of when you use it on  others,
and the metal ends to  get the current yourself. The wet sponges and
handles should never be put in the box. 
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                             Fio. 2.
  Fig. 2, A. A—Represents a box containing a machine, moved by a
crank.
  These machines are very portable, being nine inches by three arid
a half and four.
  B.—Crank screwed  on the shaft of the driving wheel which can
be taken off.
  C. C.—A Magnet.
  D.—A helix, revolved as near  the  end of the magnet as can be
and not  hit, regulated by screws at the further end of the shaft.
  E.—A brass head, connected by a wire to a piece of iron, standing
across the end of the magnet on the back side, which is an armature,
or keeper, and also regulates the strength of the current, by crowd-
ing it in to weaken it,  and pulling it out to increase the strength of
the current, and when  the machine is  out  of use, it should  always
De left crowded in.
  f. f.—Are the  wire  conductors that  take  the current from the
machine.
  i. i.—At each end of the machine, are the brass wires introduced
into a hole in  a brass head to get  the current.
  g. g.—The  handles,  at the end  of the conductors, here represented
with a sponge  tied on them to  apply to  the  patient.  The  sponges
should  be wet  before applying  them to  the  patient,  and  the
wood at the end of  the handles are to take hold of while applying
it, that  the current does not affect the fingers of the operator.
   All those parts that  have much motion should  be touched  occa-
sionally witti  a drop of oil, and the wet sponges and handles never
be put inside  the box.   This machine can be operated from the out-
side, with the  box closed, and therefore cannot be disarranged. 
MEDICALLY APPLIED,
  Fig. 3.  C. b.—Represents a box containing  a Magneto-Electric
Machine, very portable, five  inches long, two and a half deep, and
three wide, can be carried iu the pocket, and will run well 24 hours.
   a.—A compound battery, worked by two  elements.f. A screw head
to be taken out and a large spoonful of common salt put in, with
water enough to fill  it, when the zinc is screwed in again.
  e.__Another  screw head on the side, to be taken out, and into the
hole put an ounce or two of Sulphate of Copper, or  Blue Vitriol,
fill  up with water, screw tight, and shake  the battery, then put  it
into the box and introduce into the holes in  the screw heads.
  e.  f.__The  ends  on  the short conductors that  come from  the
machine g, and give it a sudden hit, and it will start to give the cur-
rent, and you get the sensation by taking in the hands  the two poles
d,one in each; you increase or diminish the strength by turning the
brass piece on  the top—to the right to increase, to the left to decrease
the sensation—on one  of the small brass  heads on the further end
of the machine.  This machine is useful  for all medical purposes.
and better than any other Electro-Magnetic Machine offered to the
public, for the  reasons set forth under the head Remarks on Magne-
tic Machines.   This  machine is useful for medical purposes and
not for surgical cases, as the current is interrupted.
                                Fig 4.
 
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MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
Fig. 1.
  Fig. 4.—Represents a Chain Battery for local and constant application with a conti-
nuous direct current, and may be used for any surgical purpose.
  It is usoful for all local applications, where a mild, continuous current is wanted, and
by  increasing the series it gives the kind of current wanted for any aud all  surgical
purposes.
  C &. Z —Represent the two metallic elements of which it is composed.
  The inner of the two outer lines represent a thin India rubber covering, the outer
line represents a covering of morocco, in which, after having been taken out of them,
r.nd put into strong vinegar, and laid a  minute or two, until the substance between
them becomes  fully wct.'thc chain is first wrapped in the India rubber cover and
then in the morocco and made fast with tapes ; then it may be attached  =>bout the per-
son, and the two poles marked N. and P., covered  with chamois leather or cloth, and
also wet in vinegar, may be applied to the naked skin of the parts desired, and made
fast with tapes, always putting the poles from the C. end of the chain to the diseased
part, and the other on some healthy part, generally to the fpine.   If a strong current
is wanted, use Sulphuric Acid, two drachms to a halt-pint of water instead of vinegar.
  The following cuts represent handles
attached to the conductingwires that bring
the current lrom the machine for its Medi-
cal  application to the patient,
  Fig. 1—Is a handle of brass  or other
metal with  a wooden end  to take hold
of when you do not wish to feci the cur-
rent in your fingers or hand.  If it i9 desi-
red to feel the  current in the  band, you
clasp firmly with the whole hand the me-
tallic part only.                                Fig. 2.
  Fig. 2 —Is the same as  Fig. 1, only it is represented with a piece of soft sponge tied
on to the end of it, which must  always be wet with water, cologne, or vinegar, when
you wish to use it.
  Fig. 3. &. 4.—Are handles for the same pur-
pose as Fig. 1. <fc 2, witli button metallic
ends with corks instead of wood, one with
a sponge tied on, and the other not.   These
handles arc  always attached to the machine
by pressing the small brass wires at the other
end of the conducting wires into the holes in
the  little brass heads at each end of the machine.
  Fig. 5—Is  the form of a conductor to be
applied to any small surface.
  Fig. 6—Is a conductor to apply the current
to the inner part of the ear.
  Fig. 7—Is a conductor to apply the current
to  the eye.
  Fig. fc—Represents an  instrument for  ap-
plication to  the womb, and is eitherinsulatcd
or not, as may be desired.
  All conductors of any pattern or style, for
medical and surgical purposes will be furnish-
ed when ordered, at a small advance on cost
by  the agiut.
  Non« of these handles or conductors,  and
specially the wet sponges should ever be  put
inside the box, for any convenience, as the
gearing might become derang-
ed by it.
  It is always necessary, to feel
the  current to be in connection
With both poles, either directly
yourself, or  with  some  other
person, or conducting medium
between you.                                     j.'ig. 8.
 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.                 19
                  PROPER CASES
                         FOR THB
APPLICATION OF MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY AND
       ELECTRO-MAGNETISM  IN DISEASE.
ASPHYXIA; OR SUSPENDED ANIMATION IN NEW BORN
                        INFANTS.

  Infants  apparently  dead when born, that have  not been
so more than  half an hour, can  be re-animated  by the use
of Magnetic-Electricity  properly applied,  and all good  ac-
coucheurs or mid wives, will know the condition that will pro-
bably exist  with the  child at  the  moment of  birth, by signs
common to such cases, and they should be in a perfect state of
readiness to act, the moment of the birth of a still born child
to re-animate  it, by setting at  once the  nervous and respira-
tory functions  in action.   We know of nothing  that  could fur-
nish an apology for a  physician who is without  the  means at
hand, for ready and prompt action at a time of birth in any
emergency, to the parents who look to them for a full perfor-
mance of  all duties, the responsibility of which they offer to
assume.   The mode of using Magneto-Electricity would be to
pass the current through the chest  from the spine or the nape
of the neck to the chest, over the lungs, heart and stomach,
with a moderate power, and let  the current pass through the
hands of one or two assistants, (never apply it  to the head ;)
and unless the child has been in this state so long that the ner-
vous system has lost all irritability, you will surely restore it.
We might, under an extreme case, where apparent  death had
existed some time, give two or three quite  smart shocks, but
they are by no means  to be continued.   [See Brath.  Ret. part
4, pp. 126, 127 ; part  7, p 34.
             ASPHYXIA FROM DROWNING.

  Whenever Magnetism or  Electricity can be  commanded,
you have a sure means of relief iu this case, if applied within 
20                 MAGNETO-ELKCTRICITY

an hour, if the individual received no other severe injury at
the time of falling into the water.  The length of time during
which an individual may be resuscitated after falling into the
water will, in a measure, depend on the  degree of strength
and vigor he possessed before submersion, and  any injury or
violence be may have received at the time of falling, and un-
der favorable circumstances we should not neglect to make an
effort as long as an hour and  a half; but at this late period we
should not feel satisfied perhaps  short of making a slight inci-
sion  on the nape of the neck lengthwise,  and one or more
over the pit of the stomach, the heart and the diaphragm, and
pass the current under a strong power through these  openings
in the skin.
   Although the emergency of such cases warrant the above
practice, yet the author believes it would very seldom be found
necessary to break  the skin in order to pass the current more
effectively, but  at the same time would never abandon a case
as hopeless, until this measure had been resorted to.
   Mode of Application.—In  all  ordinary cases of recent
drowning, it will be found sufficient to apply the current from
the nape of the neck to and  over the stomach, heart and  dia-
phragm, under a moderate power to begin,  and increase until
you see signs of returning life with respiration and circulation
commenced, and then put it at a comfortable degree of strength
only, and better still at this period, if passed through the hands
of two persons, each  one  taking a pole from the machine in
one hand, and one of them putting his other hand on the nape
of the patient's neck, and the other passing bis unoccupied
hand around and  over all the seats of vitality ; no measures
should be neglected  that are calculated  to keep the patient
warm and dry, such as covering him over with  hot  flannels.
It may be well also to bear in mind, that a person that has
been lying in cold  water, would require a much stronger cur-
rent to make them  feel it to  the same extent, than they would
at the common temperature of the body.  After the patient
was revived enough to swallow,  some warm water and brandy
with a paregoric   Ess, or  some cordial will be  all that is re-
quired, besides entire rest and quiet.   We would also say that
the current should  not be passed through  the incisions as above
mentioned, after the first signs of returning life are manifested
 as it is quite painful.  [See cases thus treated in Loud.  Lan.
vol. 7, p. 469 ; Braith. Ret. part 2, p. 109 : part 5, pp 63, G4
part 7, p. 31.] 
MEDICALLY APPLIKD.
21
      ASPHYXIA  BY POISONING FttOM STRYCHNINE.

.-  In this instance, as in all  other cases of poisoning, by the
i&arcotic vegetable poisons, the general rules for using Magnet-
 ism or Electricity are so nearly the same as those for drown-
 ing, that we shall only mention the  conditions and variations,
 and refer to the head of drowning for the detail: as a general
 thing, it will not be found necessary to make incisions  through
 the skin except in extreme cases where almost all, or quite all
 signs of life are absent, and the necessary limits of this work
 will not allow us  to enter into the  philosophy  of its action.
 See cases thus restored in London, Lancet, vol. 2d, 1844, page
 439, where rabbits, dogs and guinea pigs were poisoned with
 strychnine and brucine, and were immediately restored.
        ASPHYXIA  AS  IN POISONING BY* OPIUM.

  In this formidable condition the practitioner is to confidently
expect success to crown his efforts  as  long  as there is the
slightest  sign  of life left, and after all the  efforts by the sto-
mach pump,  as well as stimulants applied to the surface are
unavailing, we should not abandon the effort, if respiration had
not ceased more  than  ten or fifteen minutes ; but in this case
we should at once resort to the incisions mentioned under the
head of drowning as being alone  reliable to begin with, and
we must here repeat what we said there—not to continue the
current through  incisions longer than  is  deemed positively
necessary, as it would  inflict unnecessary pain, but in cases not
so  extreme, it will not be found  necessary to make the inci-
sions.  Cold water or ice applied to the head, and the body
being  kept   warm  will much  facilitate  recovery.   [See
cases  thus  treated in  the  London  Lancet,  volume  10,
page 27 ; vol. 1, 1852, p. 450 ; see Braith Ret. part 5, pp. 63;
64  ; part 5, p. 19; part 7, pp. 32, 33, 34,  35 ; part 9, art.  40 ;
art. 60 ;  art.  82  ;  part 16,  Art.  75,  77, 78, part  19,  p.
218.
   The manner of Magnetic or Electric treatment is so nearly
the same under  all circumstances of poisoning by vegetable
and narcotic poisons, also from blows, falls, &c, in which case
a temporary  suspension of respiration and circulation takes 
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MAGNETO-KLECTRICITY
place—that in this connection we shall only make mention of
the various means by which it occnrs, and refer the reader to
the treatment which  is fully applicable to them, under the
head of Asphyxia from Drowning, and from an over dose of
opium, as the treatment there  set forth is ample and appro-
priate.
Asphyxia by Poisoning with Anconite.JEther, Bitter Almonds
  or Prussic Acid, Pink Root—all  treated as stated  under
  head of Drowning and over dose of opium.
Asphyxia by poisoning with Chloroform, Alcohol  or  dead
  drunkeness, Arnica,  Belladona, Camphor, Digitalis or Fox
  Glove, Cicuta or Poison Hemlock,  Henbane or Hyoscya-
  mus—all treated as in case of over dose of opium.
Asphyxia by poisoning with Nux Vomica—treated as in case
  of Strychnine and Stramonium—see Opium and Lockjaw.
Aphyxia by poisoning with Mephitic Gases, Apocynum Can-
  nabinum, Colchicum,  Kreosote,   Sanguinaria, Antimony,
  Squills, Tobacco,  Lobelia—Any of these  agents  in  over
  doses, may act as  poisons, suspending animation, so will
  over doses of emetics that  do not operate, and Electricity
  will arouse  to  action and  sustain  the  functions—all  to be
  treated as in over dose of opium or drowning.
  We refer to cases  thus treated in Asphyxia from various
causes, in Lond.  Lan.  vol. 7, p. 469 ; see Asphyxia, London
Lan. vol. S, p. 128 ; see Braith.  Ret. part 5, pp. 63, 64 ; part
7, pp. 32, 33, 34 ; part  9, Art. 9  , part 11, p. 46.
       PROLAPSUS,  OR FALLING OF THE WOMB.

  For the past eight years the author has been successful in
curing every case of this  great bane of female existence in a
very short time, and with very little trouble, compared with
all former modes  of treatment of this harassing  malady, and
without any of those indelicate exposures, or unpleasant mea-
sures, usually supposed to be necessary.  In all cases that are
uncomplicated with other disease, there is  no other remedy
necessary to effect a cure, though sometimes we use others to
hasten it, from one to two weeks. It has always been found suffi-
cient.  This is one of those forms of disease that has especially
engaged the author's attention. 
MEDICALLY APPLIV.D.                 23
  We use the machine, Magnetic  or Electro-Magnetic,  by
placing one pole on the sacrum or small of the back, over the
tender or aching spot, while the other pole is placed in each
groin, on the forebone, and in front between  the limbs, and by
a vaginal conductor  to  the  womb  itself,  beginning  with
a slight  power, and  increasing it in strength  as the patient
can  bear it,  continuing the operation from fifteen  to twenty
minutes ; and as this disease is often accompanied  with cold
feet, we sometimes put the feet in a warm bath as hot as they
can bear, and then let the patient hold one  pole iu  her hand,
and put the other in the bath for a few minutes, always keeping
the water hot, and remove the feet before the water loses
much heat.   We repeat the use of it every day.
       LEUCORRH02A, FLUOR  ALBUS, OR WHITES.

  This is also a complaint of females, not so formidable in it-
self as in  its consequences, if neglected, as leading (like the
fallino- of the womb) to a " thousand nameless ills " and de-
ranged  nervous and other functions, tending to debilitate the
sufferer, and invite other  and more dangerous  complaints.
This has also engaged our special attention  and almost always
accompanies the former difficulty.   It  has  always  readily
yielded to the Magnetic treatment, both with and without the
use of other remedies in our hands.
  The general mode of applying Magnetism  would be the
same in this as above, except we might prefer a vaginal  con-
ductor not insulated, if we used  any, as some do
    FLOWING; OR HEMORRHAGE FROM THE WOMB.

  In this condition, so imminently  and instantly dangerous to
the life of the female, when it occurs at the time of, or immedi-
ately  after confinement, we  have not so instantly  effective
and certain a remedy on which we can rely, as Magnetic  Elec-
tricity, to produce those necessary contractions of the uterus
or womb, so indispensably necessary to arrest the flow of blood
and if the accoucheur,  or midwife, is  prepared  with and 
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MAGNETO- ELECTRICITY
knows the use  of these machines, they  never need lose
a patient from flowing after childbirth. [See cases thus treated,
Lond Lan. vol 1, 1S45, p. 342.  See Braith Ret.  part 10, p.
199; part 16, p. 274.
IMMODERATE AND IRREGULAR FLOW OF THE MENSES,
                     MENORRHAGIA.

  This is another condition of the womb, accompanied by a
slow, but more or less continuous leaking or oozing of blood,
(and increased at the period of the menses,) not attendant  on
pregnancy, accompanied with debility, relaxation and weak-
ness, in which Magnetism is equally effective, and requires to
be applied once a  day, or perhaps twice.   [See application
under head of Abortion. See Lond. Lan. vol. 1, 1845, p. 352.
  CRITICAL PERIOD OF LADIES ; OR TURN OF LIFE.

  This is another form of irregular uterine action, and often
excessive and sudden loss  of blood  accompanies it, which is
peculiar to females between  forty-two and fifty-two years of
age, rarely older or younger, and is much more under  the
control of Magnetic-Electricity, than any other means known.
See mode of using as in Prolapsus, or Falling of  the  Womb,
Immoderate flow of Menses, and Flooding.  Use the machine
every day once or twice if needed.
  Abortion.—The  author has always  arrested the flow of
blood that occurs at a threatened abortion, almost instantly,  and
puts an end to all pain ; and  where females have attempted to
produce  abortion on  themselves, and got frightened at the
flow of blood, and  sent for  us, we have instantly arrested it,
and stopped all the  pains and  effort on the part of the uterus
to throw off  its contents.  Mode of using the machine in the
four conditions of flowing last mentioned.  It will many times
be found  sufficient to pass the current from the small or lower
part  of the back, at  the  point where  the pain or aching is
felt, through the hips to the lower part of the abdomen, and on
the pubes, but it is  more  efficient to  apply  one  pole to the 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.                  25
back  as  directed, and with an insulated vaginal conductor to
the other,  introduce it  immediately into the cavity  of the
womb.   [See Braith. Ret. part 13, 186, 187.
   DYSMENORRHCEA, OR  PAINFUL MENSTRUATION.

  This is one of those conditions that gives females much suf-
fering on the occasion of their monthly period, and  like the
two former conditions, is not so dangerous to life immediately
as it is remotely, by deranging other functions and inviting dis-
ease to seize the victim, and should never be neglected as of
slight coq^equence by any one that desires health in the future;
and in its  early  stage,  is  always readily  cured with little
difficulty.  Indeed  we  never failed in curing  any case that
presented  itself, promptly, when  it had not been  neglected
until it involved other organs, and produced other diseased
conditions, and generally the Magnetic treatment has proved
sufficient.
  The application of the machine is the same as that for Pro-
lapsus or  Falling of  the Womb, and should be  commenced
about a week before the anticipated period, continued  through
it, and for three or four days after,  and this will generally
prove a cure in all recent cases.  In those of longer standing
it may need a repetition at the next period.
HYSTERICS, OR  SPASMS FROM UTERINE  IRRITATION.

  Any one, or all  of the  above mentioned  conditions of the
womb, may give rise to this kind of spasms, which many times
are excessively severe and  troublesome to  both patient and
physician, and as we  have in  Magnetic-Electricity an  agent
that controls and cures all the inordinate action and irritability
of the nervous and muscular functions, we have an efficient
remedy that will at once control it.   Physicians will not neglect
the use of other means,  but  as this  acts so  promptly they
would seldom have  time  to operate, before this agent would
have the cure performed.
  Mode of using the Machine—If there is much or any pain 
26                magneto-electricity

through the hips and lower portion of the bowels, we would
use it through the small of the back  and  low in  front as in
falling of the womb, as long as that  pain continued,  then
have a hot foot bath and put both feet in it y  put  one of
the poles in the bath  and hold the other in  both hands, under
as strong a power of the machine as can well be borne, it the
spasms affect the whole  spine, it  would be well to place one
pole on the nape of the neck and pass  the  other  down the
whole length of the 9pine, and if the muscles of the  abdomen
are much contracted, carry one  pole over the bowels  also.
[See Braith. Ret. part 21,  p. 87.]
   SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION, OR AMENORRHCEA.

  In this condition of the female, the worst consequences are
eventually to be apprehended if neglected, as it is an impor-
tant and vital function, and cannot remain stopped without pro-
ducing destruction  of  health and  death as a final result,  by
producing other diseased conditions.  The author  has always
succeeded in restoring the menses by  Magnetic-Electricity
with very little  difficulty, and  sometimes in recent stoppages
with a single application of the machine.
  The physician will generally be able to judge correctly of
the necessity of using other medicines in the case, by the de-
rangements that appear.  It is necessary always  to  see that
the bowels act every day, and when we use this agent we be-
gin about ten  days previous to the anticipated  time of the
period, to correct such  morbid conditions of the general health
as appear in the case, and about a week before the time to look
for the period, we begin to use Magnetism once a day as in fall-
ing of the womb, and in painful menstruation, and continue  it
up to the time the period should have come on and  passed,
and if it  do not appear, as it almost always does, the first time
of trial, we  then  suspend it  until  the  next time the period
should appear,  and repeat it as before, and  never  yet had to
make but two trials ; in the great majority  of cases, the first is
sufficient. [See special directions under the head of  Fallimr
of the Womb, and see cases thus treated  in Lond. Lan. vol.  1,
1845, pp. 344 ; Braith. Ret. No. 3,  pp. 22, 25, 26;  No. 11, art'.
142; No. 14, art. 118 ; No. 16, art. 176, art.  163; No. 24, p. 347. 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.                 27
                TETANUS, OR LOCK JAW.

  From the knowledge the  author has of the capabilities and
powers of Magnetic-Electricity in allaying all forms of pain
and  spasm, from general or local irritability, we  should  not
think of an attempt to treat this formidable disease without its
aid,  nor  should we omit to use any other  means that were
known, or supposed from their nature and properties to furnish
the least aid, and among them we should mention  Ether and
Chloroform,  and their  free administration need by no means
be feared, as Magnetism is a complete remedy for an over
dose of them, as will be seen by references under the head of
Chloroform.
   We should apply it by holding one pole in both hands or  one
on the nape of the neck and the other passed all about the throat,
chest,  over the diaphragm and down the spine, and in a foot-
bath of quite warm water by putting both feet  in it, and  one
of the poles from  the machine in the water and continue the
action of  the machine under as strong a power as can be borne.
Strong enough at any rate to control the spasms.
   Dr. Adams  relates  two cases of Traumatic  Tetanus treat-
ed with this agent in the London Hospital.  [See Lond. Med.
Gaz. Jan. 1842.]  In Dr.  Adams' cases all other means  had
been exhausted before this was tried, and it was attended with
success.
   Dr. A. D. Bacon of Essex County, Massachusetts, is  re-
ported to have cured a patie'nt with this  agent  solely.  [See
also Braith. Ret. part. 21, p. 91.   Chaiming on Medical Elec-
tricity, p. 132.
                     HYDROPHOBIA.

   The spasms, mania, and tendency to bite, produced in the
human species  by being bitten by a  rabid, or mad animal  is
truly awful, and in most cases has been heretofore fatal in its
consequences.  From  the  knowledge of the  author, of the
power that Magnetic-Electricity has over all forms of irritation
and spasm, (it  is the spasms that destroys the patient,) we
should not think of trying to cure one of these cases without
bringing to our aid all the means for such purpose that may be
commanded, and among them and most  prominent would be 
28                magneto-electricity
Electricity, from a Magneto-Electric machine. Chloroform and
Ether  would be  prominent, and as Electricity is a perfect
preventive from any bad  consequences of an over dose, we
should use them freely.  As Chloroform acts  by overcoming
nervous sensibility, and Magnetism  by harmonizing and equal-
izing nervous  action, strengthening nervous power,  by their
union we  should  expect success in these cases.  We should
apply the  machine by  placing one pole on the nape of the
neck continually,  and  the  other put upon the tongue, throat,
diaphragm and spine, and  into a foot bath with both feet in—
also wet both sponges with salt and water, or vinegar, and put
salt in the foot bath, put the machine to act in its highest power.
   Dr. Donovan of Dublin, relates a case in which he employ-
ed Electricity with success.  [See  Dub. Jour., May 1846 and
'47.]  Dr. Donovan refers to several cases  reported  to  the
Academy of Sciences of Turin, by Sir Tassalli Eandi and Sir
Rossi.  See also  N. Y. Dissector, vol. 2, p. 55.  Smee Electro
Biol, p. 136.
PILES, PROLAPSUS ANI, OR FALLING OF THE BOWELS.

  The above  forms of disease, when they are not a conse-
quence of other and protracted chronic diseases, from our own
experience, are entirely under the control of Magnetic-Elec-
tricity.  We  have  cured some of the most severe cases we
ever saw, in a  very few days, where the bowel  was down bad-
ly, and striclured by the spincter of the rectum, and become so
excessively tender and sore, from repeated ineffectual attempts
to return it  by pressure in the ordinary way, that it would
create a  spasm at once, and  after leeches and cold water had
failed to relieve.   We apply one pole to the lower end of the
sacrum, and the other to the perineum, and sometimes directly
to the anus under as  strong a power as the patient can well
bear, then change and put one pole on each  side  of the  rec-
tum, being careful that the  balls or sponges do not touch each
other, and press them hard on the flesh or person, as it can be
better borne  under a strong power, by pressing it on hard;
and by continuing the current for some time the soreness will
 disappear.  We have relieved  repeatedly the excessive pain
 and suffering  of these  cases in five  minutes and le.-,  and we 
medically applied.
29
repeat the application as often  as the bowel comes down and
is painful, the first day may need two or three applications and
possibly more ;  the second  day about  two applications, and
then for from three to five  days  once a day after each  stool
will be found enough to cure a  case.  If, at any  time, the pa-
tient feels an approach of the complaint, he can arrest it with
two or three applications as above  before  its gets bad, and  it
will all pass by.   It cures by giving strength and integrity to
the fibre of the bowels, and any person having a machine and
these directions, may at any time relieve themselves of this dis-
tressing  complaint.   [See  Lond. Lan.  vol. 2,  1851, p. 56 ;
Braith. Ret. part. 23, p. 215 ;  part 24 ; p.  204 ; N. Y. Dissec-
tor, vol. 2, p. 198 ; Channing on Medical  Electricity, p. 192.
    COLIC AND CHOLERA MORBUS—BILIOUS COLIC.

  In the two forms of disease  above, the main features of the
cases are pain and spasm, and for the most part it is those two
features that kill, if the patient dies.
  In the first-named form of Colic, we are glad to say that for
the last  eight years, we have been able to cure every case in
from five to ten minutes, (but more time is requird to relieve
all soreness,) and no other  remedy has been  needed, and in
only one case was a second  application  called for, and as the
mode of application is the same in this, as in  bilious  colic or
cholera morbus, we shall describe but one mode of application
for all forms of colic.  [See Channing on  Medical  Electri-
city, page 104.
   Cholera Morbus—Bilious Colic—In this form the pain
and spasm can be immediately  allayed with  Magnetic  Elec-
tricity, and in all the cases we have seen, in less time than any
other  remedy could  be brought  to bear, or have time to
produce any effect, and except  it  be brought  on by  an  over
meal of some crude food, it will be cured generally with one
thorough application,  but if the stomach be loaded with undi-
gested or crude food, it will be likely to return if the  stomach
be not emptied.  The physician will understand, that if this
disease come on from functional bilious derangement, it should
be attended to. 
30                 MAGNETO-electricity

  Painters' or Lead Colic—The author has had great rea-
son to be satisfied with the prompt relief that has followed the
use of Magnetic-Electricity in this distressing complaint, doing
away with  all the severe and urgent symptoms at once, and
giving the other necessary remedies a prompt action, and re-
moving  all soreness.   [See Channing on Medical Electricity,
p. S3.]
  Cholera Infantum.—In this disease, after the  fever  has
subsided, and the  debilitating discharges continue, with ten-
dency to prostration and coldness, we have derived the most
happy results from this agent, in  equalizing the nervous force,
and as a consequence the circulation, restoring equal warmth
to all parts, relieving abdominal soreness on pressure, prevent-
ing exhaustion, and in many cases it has appeared to have a fa-
vorable  effect on the quality and frequency of the stools.  It
may be applied twice or more times a day if needed.
  An Over Draught  of Cold or Ice Water.—The revul-
sion which is caused in the human system from a  drink of cold
or ice water, when we are very much heated or wearied, is
sometimes followed by sudden death, and may always be re-
lieved by the use of medical magnetism, promptly applied ; it
would  always  be well to give some strong stimulant, such as
raw brandy or pepper, or peppermint essence, camphor, &c,
as soon  as possible.
  Diarrhoea.—In the  above complaint, where it is kept up by
warm weather, change of water,  and debility, with a coldness
the author has derived the most prompt and unequivocal help
from the use of  Magnetic-Electricity, often arresting it entire-
ly at one application, and the second or third removes all ten-
derness of the bowels and pain.   It maybe repeated if needed.
  Dysentery—In this form of  bowel disease, we should not
think of using Magnetism as long as the frebile symptoms con-
tinue with  much force, but as soon as they abate, it  comes in
with great efficacy, in allaying all pain and irritation, especially
at stool, removing soreness and preventing exhaustion, equal-
izing the temperature, and promoting the action of  other re-
medies.
  Asiatic Cholera.—In this formidable disease the medical
practitioner is  bound  to bring all aid to his patient that can
promise any assistance, and too often he fails in the best efforts.
From our knowledge of its power  in all forms of disease of
this character,  we can say  with the utmost confidence that
if a Magneto-Electric  or Electro-Magnetic machine can  be 
                   medically  applied.                 31

brought to bear on a  patient laboring under Asiatic Cholera
early, he will not pass into the stage of collapse or cold stage,
and if he already be in it, there is not so powerful an agent to
bring him out of it.   We have had the trial of it twice in our
person, and speak from experience ; the first time after the
cold stage was on, and the second time we  kept it from com-
ing on.  In the first instance, language would be inadequate to
describe the comfort of relief from the ice-bound  sensations
of the cold stage of cholera; in  the second attack we were at
home, and resorted to it with other remedies, and we were not
confined  to our  room  two days.   It should not be inferred
from the above, that we omit the use of all measures that pro-
mise any assistance in these cases because, we use Magnetism.
In those cases where  a collapse is so severe as to simulate appa-
rent death, and yet there appears to be an  occasional twitching
and drawing of the muscles, we should not despair of, or neglect
making an effort with these  remedies, as  in  Asphyxia  from
Drowning, for these  are the conditions under which some have
been  b tried alive.   In  such cases we  should be justified in
passing the current through incisions on the nape of the neck,
and  over the chest and  stomach, if we cannot arouse  the pa-
tient without.  [See Lond. Lan. vol. 9, p. 316 ; vol. 10, p. 169;
vol.  9, p. 592 ; vol. 8, p. 317 ; vol. 11, p. 169 ;  Channing on
Medical Electricity, p.  104.
MODE OF USING THE MACHINE IN DIFFERENT  FORMS
       OF CHOLERA AND BOWEL  COMPLAINTS.


  In Common Colic,  or as it is sometimes called  Spasmodic
Colic, the poles are placed (after the  sponges on the handles
are wet.) directly to the bowels on each  side, to pass  the cur-
rent through or from the pit of the stomach to the  lower part
of the bowels, or one  pole may be  placed on the spine, and the
other passed all over the abdomen in  the painful spots, under
us much power of the machine as the patient can  well bear,
beginning with a weak current and increasing  it gradually,
and continuing it until the pain ceases, and the patient is warm.
In almost all cases in the early stages of any form of this class  _
of disease, a warm gentle perspiration will break out all over 
32                 M A <; \ KTO-EI. ECTRIC IT V

the  patient from  the  use of  Magnetic-Electricity,  in  from
ten  to  twenty-five  minutes,  and a  tendency  to sleep fol-
low.  In most instances the  case will be cured.   The above
directions respecting the manner of using  the  machine are
proper  in,  and common  to  all forms  of  the disease,  so
far as using it on  the abdomen.   To  remove  soreness and
tenderness of the bowels,  which may remain after the pain
ceases, we have found  letting the patient hold one pole in both
hands, and the operator holding one in  his hand  and  passing
his other hand over the abdomen for a few minutes will nearly
or quite remove all soreness, this is  also common  or applica-
ble to all forms of  this disease.  In Asiatic  cholera we might
sometimes think proper to put both hands in one hot bath, and
both feet in another, and  then put a pole in each with a strong
power to bring about reaction in a collapse.
  In Cholera Infantum we should always use the agent through
the hands of two persons, and if there were  coldness of the
feet, we would put them in a warm bath and one pole in the
bath, and one to the pit of the stomach or nape  of the  neck.
  In Dysentery, to overcome the painful stools, we would ap-
ply one pole directly to the rectum or anus, and  the  other  to
and all over the bowels, but we would not use it, if there  were
high frebile symptoms.  Our rule for continuing the use  of
Magnetic-Electricity and for repeating it is, first, until  relieved
from  pain,  and warmth  is  restored ;  and  second,  on any
return of  the symptoms.
            GANGRENE OR MORTIFICATION.

  In gangrenous conditions, whether from wounds, or the last
stage of inflammatory action from any cause, or dry gangrene of
aged persons, there is not so powerful a means to resist its ap-
proach from any cause as Magnetic Electricity,  or to restore
in part its inroads, or  arrest its advance, and  we could by
no  means  consider a  case  intelligently  treated  by the
light of science, when  it  was  omitted,  as  it is  necessarily
fatal to the part, or the whole patient, if not  arrested, and
the part restored.   It  restores by imparting positively and
in an active  manner, that  principle of life and vitality with- 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.
33
out which we cannot either live in the whole person, or in part,
.as a limb, and it never can under any circumstances be omitted.
   The  administration of Medical  Magnetism should be both
general and local, and continued and repeated as the case may
require; there is no occasion for a very strong current.   In
giving it in general, we should pass- it through the whole sys-
tem, and particularly over the principal seats of vitality, as the
stomach, heart, lungs and spine ; also to the part affected.  And
this  is one of those conditions in which we would expect  in-
creased benefit by passing the current to the patient through
hands of two healthy persons. It may be repeated from one
to five or six times a day.  [See N. Y.  Lancet, vol.  2, p. 30 ;
Lond. Lan., vol.  12,~pp.  251, 327 ; Braith. Ret. No. 5, p. 115.
Channing, p. 177.
                   ANGINA PECTORIS.

  From the knowledge we have of this truly distressing ma-
lady, and our experience in  controlling spasm with Magnetism
or Electricity, we can assure the happiest results, from its im-
mediate application in the paroxysm, and its daily continuance
until all fear of its return is past.  In all cases that I have had
occasion to treat, I could observe a strong rheumatic habit of
body, and hence  I infer, that it is or may be  inferred to be
rheumatic in character, and of course should be completely
under the control of this agent.   I should  prescribe it in the
paroxysm with entire confidence of producing  immediate re-
lief, and firm expectation of an entire removal of it, by a con-
tinuance of  its use, accompanied by such remedies as the ge-
neral condition of each case might indicate.
  I should use the agent under as strong a power as the patient
could  bear, by placing one  pole  in the  hands of the pa-
tient or on the nape of the neck, or on the spine, about between
the lower part of the shoulder blades and the other pole all over
the front and lower part of the chest, around from side to side,
by the lower edge of the ribs and perhaps  over the heart, be-
ginning with a moderate power, and increasing it to that de-
gree of strength that can well be borne, and continue it for
some little time after the spasm has ceased, it may be  well  to 
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MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
pass the current over the chest, through the hand  of an assis-
tant.  A person known to be subject to this complaint  should
never be without a machine of this kind at their command.
[See Channing on Medical Electricity, p. 123.
               STRANGULATED HERNIA.

  In Strangulated Hernia, which is one of those formidable
surgical diseases,  not unfrequently attended with loss of life to
to the patient,  or requiring an  operation that  opens into a
large cavity of the body, which  operation, in  itself some-
what dangerous, independent of the state of the bowel, may be
entirely done away with by an early application of  Magnetic-
'Electricity before the part becomes highly inflamed and adhe-
sions take place between the bowel and surrounding parts, by
exciting the muscular  contractions of the bowels surely  and
strongly,  by which  means it  reduces itself,  and  it would
succeed many times, when other means had failed. The earlier
it was used after  the rupture took  place, the more sure and
readily would it succeed, and require no handling of the  part,
by which it would be irritated.  In Strangulated Hernia which
has  been  relieved by operation, the bowel is sometimes found
in, or approaching to, a mortified or gangrenous state, which if
not immediately relieved,  is fatal after operation. In this state
of things,  there is not so powerful and certain remedy as Mag-
netic-Electricity  to impart and restore life in  the intestine, if
applied directly to and about the part.  [Lond. Lan. vol. 6, p.
274.]
   Passage of  Gall  Stones  from the gall  bladder would
be facilitated by controling the spasms, and  strictures  from
spasms, in the same way—also stone from the kidneys through
the  ureters into  the bladder, would be rendered  much less
painful.
   Intussusception,  or  Inyaginated Bowel—A condition
 almost necessarily fatal if not  relieved, would  be relieved by
 the  action of a  current of Magnetic-Electricity through  the
 bowels.   [See  Braith.  Ret. No. 21, art. 58 ;  N. Y. Dissector,
 vol. 2, p. 52.
   Mode  of Use in  Hernia.—We  pass  a  strong current
 from  the mouth  or pit of the stomach, to the anus, and from 
                  MEDICALLY APPLIED.                 "o..

side to side contiguous to the strangulated bowel, and continue
it until the bowel retracts, which would probably  be in from
one to twenty minutes. In the passage of Gall Stones, we would
pass it as nearly through the affected part as possible, from side
to side, and from front to rear over the gall bladder.
   In Neurlgia we shall say nothing of other remedies to be
given or recommended, as it occurs in so many forms and com-
plications, that it would require a volume of itself to give them
all, and as this form of disease is readily recognized, it can re-
quire no description.  The promptness of the cure  may depend
much on the judicious selection of other remedies, though we
think "Hiat  eight or  nine  times out  of  ten  in  all cases  of
simple Neuralgia,  disconnected with other  disease  or any
strong functional derangement, it  will be  cured, decidedly,
and promptly, without any other remedy  than Medical Mag-
netism.   Indeed, under the  above circumstances, we  have
met  With but one case out  of hundreds  thus  treated, but
what we  have succeeded in  allaying  nearly  or  quite all the
pain the first time.   It may be repeated as the pain returns.
   Mode  of Application—We use or direct the use of the
machine  in Neuralgia thus :  by giving one pole from the ma-
chine into both hands of the  patient, taking the  other in one
of our own, apply our other hand over the  diseased  part,
 and  continue it until  relieved or greatly mitigated, and repeat
it on the  return of symptoms.  [See Braith. Ret. No. 4, p. 62 ;
 No.  5, p. 63 ; No. 17, art. 23 ; N. Y. Dissector, vol. 4, pp. 107,
 182, 188 ;  Channing on Medical Electricity, p.  106  ; Smee.
 Elec. Biol. pp. 131, 132.
    Gastralgia, or Pain in the Stomach—The same mode of
 using the machine, and remarks, are applicable  to this  form
 of disease, but we confine our hand to the region of the sto-
 mach, and  sometimes put the other pole on the spine oppo-
 site  the  stomach. We may use both poles directly applied
 to the person, but it is not as agreeable to the patient.  [See N.
 Y. Dissector, vol. 4, p. 188.
    Odontalgia, or Toothache—We have never found a case
 of toothache we could not relieve, and when  it impurely ner-
 vous or neuralgic, we always cure it. If the tooth be very badly
 inflamed and ulcerated at the root, the pain will  quite likely
 return in a greater or less degree, in which case  you may  re-
 peat the  operation.
    Mode of Applying—We give the patient one pole in both
 hands aud  take the other in our  own, and under  a  weak 
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MAGNETO-ELECT It If IT Y
power of the machine, take the  painful tooth between  oui
fingers  and  thumb, trying not to touch other parts, as the
lips, &c, and continue till relieved, and if there be a soreness
left we pass the current through our hand into  the side of the
face until it be removed.
  Tic Douloureux,   or  Neuralgia of the Face.—The
same general remarks are also here applicable that were made
under the head Neuralgia and the modifications of application
are only in the point of strength of current to  be  used, as, if
the pain be near the region of or  over the brain the current
should be made very weak, and applied through the hand of
the operator.  We have thought that in all forms of Neuralgia
we may gain some advantage by wetting the surface over the
pain with some strong Anodyne Lotion as Morphine or the like
when we applied the current.
  Sciatica, or Neuralgia in the Hip—General remarks the
same as under Neuralgia, and the same general principle of ap-
plication, only here you can use a  good power  of current, and
can apply the wet sponge of the pole directly to the part.
  Hemicrania, or Nervous Headache—In the  application
of Magneto-Electricity to this form and location of disease we
always expect to give speedy relief, and the modifications are
to begin with the current  at the  weakest point, and apply it
through the hand, first wetting the  hair through to the  scalp
with water, vinegar, or cologne as may be preferred.
  Periodical and Sick Headache—In the first approach of
symptoms of this form of headache we should expect to arrest
its advance for the time only, but after nausea has commenced
we  should hope for only a temporary mitigation.  In Periodi-
cal  Headache we should expect to cure it promptly by giving
in conjunction the tincture  of Nux Vomica.  General rules of
application same as above.
                     RHEUMATISM.

  The author is not aware of a remedy for any disease that
comes  as  near being a specific, as Magnetic-Electricity for
Rheumatism.  It is true that no good physician will ever think
of treating it, in the acute or chronic form, without giving pro-
per attention to the secretions of the liver and kidneys.   The 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.                  37
author never  saw a case yet, of either form of Rheumatism,
but the secretions  of both those  organs were either bad in
quantity  or quality, arid  most always in  both; not that rheu-
matism consists in  those derangements, but that they always
accompany it.
  In acute Rheumatism,  after the high febrile symptoms have
subsided, or are modified, we come in with Magnetism, and in
every  instance have quieted at once, all those painful and dis-
tressing symptoms that are so urgent at times.
  In a case of metastasis of the disease to the heart, where it
was  so severe as to  threaten  the  life  of the patient every
moment, and  he could not speak  or whisper to be  under-
stood, with his lips cold and livid, we relieved him  in half an
hour so that he could talk, was easy and inclined to sleep.
  In fact we have not in many years had a case of rheumatism
of any form, however severe, last longer than from three to six
days, and never lost a patient with it.
  In these cases, although we use other remedies, we shall not
speak  of them here, but only  explain  the  use of  Magnetic-
Electricity.   In the acute or inflammatory form of the disease,
we have  always used  it, by passing the current through  one
hand of an assistant, by  giving  him a pole in one hand  and
putting his other on  the nape  of  the  neck, and  keeping it
there, and on the whole  track of the spine, while we, with a
pole in one hand, pass our other hand over all the seats of pain
wherever they are, and  continue it until relieved, and  then
finish by carrying our hand all  over the limbs and person.
  In chronic rheumatism, we sometimes give the patient  one
pole in both hands, and apply the wet sponge of the other direct-
ly to the painful part or lame joint, and continue it until relieved
in both instances, and repeat it on any return of symptoms.  We
often finish, in the latter  form, by passing the current through
our hands to the patient,  and stop when  he is  relieved.   [See
Braith. Ret. part 3, p, 24; part 17, art. 158 ;  N. Y.  Dissector,
vol. 4, p. 182 ;  Smee. Elec. Biol, pp. 126, 127; Channing on
Medical Electricity, pp. 114, 139, 142.
  Gout—In Gout,  as in  Rheumatism, the practice  in the use
of the machine would be the same, only we might put the foot
and one pole of the machine into a bath of warm water.   [See
Channing on Medical Electricity, p. 142. 
38                 MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY.

               LABOR,  OR PARTURITION.

  Perhaps  there  is  no remedy  which comes more  safely
and  promptly  to  the  aid  of  the  physician than  Magnetic-
Electricity  in  a  lingering,  protracted  labor,  where  the
pains  are  ineffectual,  irregular  and  without their proper
expulsive  force.   This  state  of things  exists  sometimes
from general debility, nervous irritability or an over distention
of the womb, and  when the practitioner is satisfied that  there
are no hindrances  to the  progress  of labor, other than irregu-
lar and inefficient  pains or want of physical power in his pa-
tient, he has a sure, prompt, and safe remedy in this agent, and
its perfect control over flooding after labor, and its almost cer-
tain power to resuscitate  children apparently dead when born,
make it an apparatus entirely indispensable to the practitioner,
as there is, and can be no substitute for it.  It is harmless and
not unpleasant in its action, and far better than drugs.
  Mode of Use—Under a feeble  power of  the machine, it
may be applied by  putting  one wet  sponge, or  the  hand
of an  assistant, to  the  lower part of the spine, where the
pain  is  felt  in the  back,  and the other  over the pubes,
or front and lower part of the  abdomen  and to the perineum,
and the power may  be gradually  increased to the  necessary
extent; it  may be proper to avoid passing a strong current
through the head of the child, and there is no need of it; it may
also be passed  over  the  upper part of the womb or uterus,
and regular, efficient, expulsory pains will immediately  come
on, it may be continued or repeated as the case requires.
  See Lond. Lan. vol. 1,  1845, p. 352 ; vol. 10, p. 291; Braith.
Ret.  No. 13, art. 185 ;  No. 14, art. 165 ;  No. 13,  art. 188;
Channing on Medical Electricity, p. 137.
  Chlorosis, or Bloodlessness.—As  this  is depending on
an impoverished  condition of the  blood,  and  may  result
from  loss of blood,  chronic disease  of long  standing, sus-
pended functions, &c, it is always attended with enfeebled vi-
tality and imperfect nutrition, and Magnetic-Electricity, being
the most direct and efficient mode of supplying that deficiency, is
of course among the best means to be used, accompanied with
such remedies as are tonic, and will restore function.   Mode of
using the machine in this case would be quite general.   The
patient may hold one pole in each hand, and by the help of an
assistant, through one hand, pass it over  the stomach, lungs,
bowels, &c, and over  any  organs whose  action may be  de- 
medically applied.                 39
ranged.  It may be continued from ten to twenty-five minutes
and repeated daily.  Our efforts with this  agent in this behalf
have been successful.
      CHORtA, OR ST. VITUS'  DANCE, (MEGRIMS.)

  Our success  in the  treatment of  this complaint  with
Magnetic-Electricity has been entirely satisfactory, and in no
case have we been disappointed in its results.  It gives  com-
parative relief almost from the first, if we can get the patient's
mind quiet and free from apprehension.  We always combine
it with such remedies as the case may seem to require other-
wise, and tonics, but never with the common  anodynes and nar-
cotics.
  Mode of Using the Machine—We  give the  patient one
pole in both hands, and with the  other in one of ours, under a
moderate or light power of  the machine, we apply our  other
hand to the whole  length of the spine, chest, stomach and ab-
domen, and finish by putting both feet into  a warm bath with
the pole we held.  In a very bad case in a delicate person,  we
should prefer doing the whole through the hands of the opera-
tor and an assistant.  It may be continued  from  a  quarter to
half an hour, and repeated daily.   [See  Braith. Ret. No. 3, p.
22 ; No. 16, art. 30, N. Y. Dissector, vol. 4, p. 503.
  Catalepsy—In this as in  all other forms of suspended func-
tions of voluntary  or organic life, we are to expect the  same
result from the use of  Magnetic-Electricity,  and the  same
rules for using the machine as are given under the  head of
Asphyxia from an Over Dose of Opium, only in this case you
would avoid strong shocks, as not necessary. One pole applied
to the nape of the  neck, and the other over  the stomach and to
the soles of the  feet, will, doubtless, be sufficient.   [See N. Y.
Lan. vol. 2, p. 347 ;  Lond. Lan. vol. 2, 1851, p. 101 ; Braith.
Ret No. 22, p. 90.
   Sterility  and Impotence.—In many cases  of Sterility,
where it was owing to  the absence of physical power and
vitality of the organs, with  a feeble state of health, we have
always succeeded in restoring tone, and with it, fruitfulnese ;
and the same results have attended our efforts  in Impotence
from any cause, being the same in character.
   Mode of Using Machine.—The objects-to be accomplished 
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in the two forms of disease here mentioned, are both  general
and local; general, to give, vitality and physical force, and lo-
cal as respects the organs particularly involved, and may be
left to the judgment of the operator, being governed by gene-
ral  principles.  [See N. Y.  Lancet,  vol. 3, p.  34 ;  London
Lancet, vol. 9, p. 291, vol. 11, p. 20 ; vol. 1, 1851, p. 60.
                       DIABETES.

  In all functional derangements of important organs, that are
not inflammatory, but chronic in character, and when  no or-
ganic change  exists in  the part affected, we may expect a
prompt and decisive improvement in the performance of the
function of  the nerves of the diseased organ, and  if there be
no  change  of structure,  we may  expect  a speedy cure.
We have reason to expect  also an improved performance of
function, even if there be some change of structure, but  not
so certainly a cure.   The action of this agent also will increase
and make more certain the action of other remedies.  This re-
medy will secure a change  in the chemical constituents of the
urine.   The mode of using the Machine, is to apply the cur-
rent directly through the kidneys, across the small of the back,
and above the hips.  We finish  the operation by putting one
pole into both of the patient's hands, and taking the other pole
into one of our hands, we apply  our other hand to the  region
affected.  The whole operation occupying from fifteen to
twenty-five minutes.   Applied daily.
         BRIGHTS DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS.

  In this complaint, at the present time considered very for-
midable, much is to be expected from the action of Electricity
from the Magnetic Machine, in giving tone and healthy energy
to the nerves of the organs principally affected, to restore them
to healthy action, and the urine to its natural chemical consti-
tuents.  The same general remarks in regard to the complaint
and the manner of using the machine are applicable here, that
wei"e made under the head of Diabetes. 
medically applied.                 41
AMAUROSIS—GUTTA-SERENA—PALSY  OF  THE  OPTIG
                          NERVE.

   In the above conditions of the eye, and the optic nerve, the
author has been extremely gratified by the effect of Magnetic-
Electricity in many instances, where vision was more or less
imperfect, in the ready  and constant  improvement of the pa-
tient until vision was restored.   When there is no organic
change in the organ, and especially where its condition is sym-
pathetic with  disease in another organ, we can speak with the
utmost confidence of success.
   The Mode of Using the Machine, adopted by us, is  to
place one pole in both hands  of the patient, having the other
pole in one hand, place  our other hand,  moistened,  over the
diseased eye, under a comfortably strong power of the  machine.
This should be continued from fifteen to twenty-five  minutes,
and repeated daily.   There is also an instrument made for the
special purpose.   [See Braith Ret. No. 5, pp. 53, 64.
                        ULCERS.

  In all the varieties of indolent Ulcers, sometimes called cold
Ulcers, we have an invaluable assistant and auxilary to their
cure in Magnetic-Electricity, which is used to stimulate them
to healthy action.  In speaking of this remedy in connection
with the treatment of ulcers we need make no distinction in
kind or character, save that of chronic or indolent ulcers,  and
those of a specific character as Syphilis and Buboes, Nodes,
&c, and such as Malignant or Cancerous—these all come  un-
der this head, where it is desired to stimulate them, in order to
promote a more healthy action  in the  part affected.
  Another distinction may  be made so as to include all irritable
ulcers, that  is, such  as are very sensitive  to  touch, and  also
those that are sometimes found as a sequel to phlegmasiadolens
when badly treated, or of indifferently treated bilious fever,
when the kidneys and liver have been neglected, and the limbs
becomes swelled and dropsical. In such cases the practitioner
will find in this agent an invaluable remedy.
  The Mode of  Using the Machine, that  the  author  has
found most  agreeable, as  well  as  successful, is, to  give  into
both hands of the  patient one of  the poles,  and  if there  be a 
42                MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
tendency to coldness in the limb, or part on which the ulcer
exists, we would  put it  into  warm water, with one pole
from  the  machine in  the  bath, until the limb becomes warm,
when we  would  remove it,  and  cover the  ulcer  with a
pledget of lint, or a very soft sponge, or cotton wool wet, and
under as  strong a  power as the patient can well bear,  we
would apply  the pole directly to, and round about the ulcer,
from fifteen to twenty-five minutes, once a day.  In very irri-
table  ulcers it is frequently the case that one application of a
machine that is arranged magnetically, will remove nearly or
quite  all the pain  and soreness.  It will, no doubt, be better,
when it can be done, to apply it to the ulcer through the hand
of the operator.


                         SYPHILIS.

   In  primary Syphilis we are not aware of the utility of Mag-
netic-Electricity, until a Bubo, or Abscess makes its  appear-
ance, when it will  be found a very prompt agent in dispersing
them.  We should try it on a primary chancre in the  manner
recommended under the head of ulcers.
   Syphilitic Nodes on long bones, and the thickening of the
flat bones, in tertiary Syphilis.—The author has had remark-
able  success in dispersing them, together with the pains that
accompany them, by the use of this agent. We have dispersed
the thickening on the lower edge of the scapula in a months
time  that  was an inch thick.
   Syphilitic Rheumatism and Neuralgia.—These are two
forms of disease  that accompany, in  peculiar  constitutions,
chronic syphilis, that are  extremely distressing to the patient,
 and in the absence of the  ulcers and nodes which may be pre-
 sent or not,  they are  liable to be confounded with Neuralgia
 and Rheumatism that have nothing to do with Syphilis, which
 can be learned by  the history of the  case, and we are not ac-
 quainted  with so  powerful and efficient an auxiliary in  the
 treatment of any of the  forms of disease here spoken of, as
 Magnetic-Electricity, especially in the Nodes, Rheumatism and
 Neuralgia, bringing very prompt relief, and assisting also the
 other remedies to  act with much more efficiency.
   The Application of  the  Machine.—In  the above com-
 plaints where  ulcers  or buboes are present, it should be used
 as described under Ulcers. In Buboes it may be used directly 
MEDICALLY applied.
43
to and through the part, and if ulceration, or the formation of
matter or pus takes place, it will, probably, disperse it, arid
tend to bring about a speedy termination in that way. For the
Rheumatic and Neuralgic symptoms of Chronic Syphilis, you
would apply the machine in the way and manner described
under the heads Rheumatism and Neuralgia.
  We never rely solely on Magnetic-Electricity for the treat-
ment or cure of any  of  the  forms  of  Syphilis in any of its
stages.   It will, however, disperse the  Neuralgic  pains,
and Rheumatic  symptoms, alone, but they will return if the
disease be not cured.
FISTULA IN ANO AND PERINEUM, OR  SCROFULOUS AB-
          SCESS IN  OR ABOUT THE RECTUM.

   The  author has succeeded in affecting a cure of this com-
plaint by means of Magnetic-Electricity, when all other efforts
had failed.  One of the  cases had been the subject of surgical
operations, for a  cure, and it had broken out again, in which
we affected a cure, now five years since, and it has never re-
turned.   In another case it is four years since the cure, and no
return, though there w-ere symptoms of it  at one time, and the
use of the machine dispersed them again.
   Mode of  Using the  Machine, is, to hold a pole in each
hand of the patient for a space of ten minutes for its general
effect on the system, and then apply the poles directly to, and
around the part in different directions for ten or twenty minutes
at a time, once a day, as directed in  case of Piles.
ABDOMINAL  DISTENTION,  FLATULENCY,  ENLARGED
      ABDOMEN,  AS IN  TABIES MESSENTERICA.

  In all cases of Abdominal Distention and  Flatulency from
indigestion and like causes, Magnetic-Electricity will be found
a sure and prompt remedy, daily applied, or as  often as the
gas shall accumulate, if it  be two or three times a day.
3 Tabies  Messenterica.—It will  be found to exercise the
same control over this grave and distressing malady  of  chil- 
44                magneto-electricity
dren and infants, and an auxiliary to other remedies, used once
or twice a day through the hands of two healthy persons, each
one holding a pole in one hand and placing the other on, over
and all about the abdomen,  and from the spine to the bowels
under  as strong a power  of the machine as  can be borne
comfortably.   For Abdominal Distension  and  Flatulency it
should be used in the same  manner as above, only it is not ne-
cessary to use it through the hands of other persons, unless
the patient be a child.
                     CONSTIPATION.

   In this complaint, when it arises from a sluggish, cold, and
an inactive state  of the system, there is not a more efficient
and perfect remedy in our possession.   We have often had it
produce the desired effect (a free evacuation of the bowels) in
from fifteen to thirty minutes.
   The physician will suggest such other administration of medi-
cines as each case may require.
   Mode of Using the Machine.—In  this  condition of  the
system, we put one pole into the mouth, or apply it to the pit
of the stomach, and pass the other pole over the bowels, more
particularly the lower portion, and even to the fundament, or
lower end of the bowel, from fifteen to twenty minutes, under
as strong a power of the machine as can be well borne by the
patient. Repeat it every day, and continue  it from twenty to
thirty minutes at each time.   [Braith. Ret. No. 21, art. 64.]
                  DELIRIUxM TREMENS.

  In this form of disease, or nervous aberration, the author
has derived much benefit from the use of Magnetic-Electricity
in quieting the distressing state of nervous and mental excita-
bility, which if not removed, harasses  the patient  to  death.
  It. operates by giving tone to the nervous function,  and
should be applied one, two, or three times a day, as the urgency
of tb»e symptoms  may require, and continued at each time un-
til a degree  of mental and bodily quiet is restored.  Through
the hands of an  assistant, the operator  may apply  it to the 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.
45
head and  all parts of the body.   Let the assistant, holding a
pole in one hand, place  his  other hand on the head, which
oiiouid  ue wet wilii  water.   The  operator  Lakuig  ti.e ulliuV
pole in  one hand should, with a weak electrical current, pass
the other hand, over the spine, chest, bowels and limbs from fif-
teen to thirty minutes.   The assistant should also pass his hand
from the top of the head to the nape of the neck. Withthepower
of the machine made as strong as all the parties can bear, the
operation may be continued by the operator, passing his hand
again over the same regions as before, except the head, for
about the same length of time.
THE  HABIT OF OPIUM EATING  AND LIQUOR DRINKING.

  The author has repeatedly succeeded in assisting those per-
sons who were unfortunately addicted to these habits, to over-
come them in a manner in which the distress and suffering are
much alleviated, and a return of health and former vigor es-
tablished.   It  is essential to success, that the  patient should
second your efforts, and abstain entirely from either Opium or
Liquor, and our efforts, with this agent, (Magnetic-Electricity)
is to relieve  that excessive nervous prostration, and anxious
longing for  the accustomed stimulous, (which constitutes the
principal suffering of the patient, and makes them  for a time
maniacs,) by  supplying in an  artificial  way, a  healthy, ner-
vous  power,  and  in a  measure  to give them a  healthy
stimulant.  In  this  manner the habit and  necessity is over-
come.
  Mode of Using the Machine.—It should be used precisely
as was directed for Delirium Tremens.   In these  cases it is
better for the current to pass through the hands of two healthy
persons, and the machine may, if needed, be used from one to
three times in twenty-four hours.
                       HICCOUGH.

  This complaint though ordinarily of no moment, as it is ge-
nerally slight and of short duration, in some instances is pro- 
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MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
tracted and harrassing, and becomes even a serious and grave
circumstance, requiring  the  attention  and attendance of the
physician.  We have  always found it  to yield  readily and
promptly to  the use  of  Magnetic-Electricity,  applied  by
placing one pole on the nape of the neck, or in both hands of
the patient, and passing the other pole over the region of the
diaphragm.   It may be applied directly or through the hand.
                     HYPERTROPHY.

  The author has  used Magnetic-Electricity in cases of an
apparent congenital Hypertrophy with  other means, such  as
pressure, and with some degree of success.  Those conditions
of thickening and induration that occur in some forms of chro-
nic disease,  all readily  yield to the application of this agent.
We should never omit a trial of it.  We should try a direct
current without a shock, if the ordinary arrangement of inter-
rupted to-and-fro current does not succeed.  The shocks in
this form are of no consequence.
  Goitre.—We have succeeded in treating many cases  of
Goitre with success, and  have always used the interrupted
current, and used both poles on the affected part at the base,
passing the current through  it in all directions,  every day, or
oftener, from twenty to twenty-five minutes.
        SECALE  CORNUTUM, OR  HORNED RYE.

  This justly celebrated remedy, which given in small and re-
peated doses, in sic w and protracted labors, where there are in-
efficient uterine contractions, is, in the author's opinion, perfect-
ly free from harm  to the mother or child, may now be entirely
laid aside by the use of a mild current of Magnetic-Electricity,
directed as described under the head of Labor.   Those phy-
sicians who  have feared, and those  families  who do fear the
action of  Ergot, or Horned Rye, may be relieved of any ap-
prehension on those points.  Those physicians who have been,.
and are in the habit of using Chloroform in tedious, difficult,
and protracted labors, have a sure and perfect remedy for an
over dose of*Chloroform in Magnetic Electricity,  if they have 
MEDICALY APPLIED.
47
It at hand  to apply immediately, as described under Chloro
form.
PURPURA, PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA, SEA AND  LAND
                         §CURVY.

   Under the above head, authors have described diseases that
have received names in accordance with their fancy or judg-
ment, which descriptions and names we omit, because so far
as" Magnetic treatment is concerned, it would be the same in
mode, as one general condition exists in all—the loss of all the
vital forces, and energy of functions, and is characterized by
great physical debility and imperfect nutrition.
   Purpura is  characterized  by spots or patches, like flea or
insect bites, and sometimes dark livid spots.  Sometimes those
livid  spots throw out pale or thin blood that does not coagu-
late.
   Scurvy  is called Land  or Sea scurvy as the case may be,
 whether contracted on land or sea.
   In the above forms of disease the author knows there cannot
 be a  more efficient means in the hand of the physician  than
 Magnetic-Electricity, to overcome debility, by imparting tone
 and energy to the nervous system, promoting digestion, also
 the circulation of the air through the lungs, and blood through
 the vessels, and give more efficiency and certainty to the action
 of other remedies.
    The current should be applied in general over the system,
 and  it would be  better if used through  the  hands of  two
 healthy persons.
    Let one  person, holding one pole in one hand, place his
 other on the back of the neck, and the other person with one
 pole in one of his hands, pass the other hand over the chest,
 stomach, bowels and limbs, while the application of the  pole
 on the neck may be kept opposite on the spine, while the other
 hand is passing over the body, and when the  hand  is going
 over the limbs, let the other pole or hand return to the nape of
 the neck.   Let it be done  under as much power of the ma-
 chine as can be well borne, and repeated once or  more times
 a day, and continued until health or vigor is restored. We do
 not  believe scurvy can  appear in  a person, who will daily
  use  this machine, holding  one pole in each  hand every  day
  fifteen minutes. 
48                 magneto-electricity
       CALCULUS,  OR STONE IN  THE BLADDER.

  In Calculus, or Stone in the Bladder, Galvanism, or the pri-
mary current from the battery, has enjoyed something of a re-
putation as a chemical solvent, and  there are too many well
authenticated cases  from reputable  sources longer to doubt,
but that some forms of stone will yield to its action.  In this,
as in most other chemical  and surgical cases, a direct and un-
interrupted  current  (i. e. a current  without any shocks,)  is
what is desired.   It may be obtained from a Magneto-Electric
machine made on purpose, or from a  battery ;  either of which
will affect the object.   It is only in surgical and chemical cases
that this form of machine is to be desired.
  Mode of Application.—In all cases where we wish to use
a direct and uninterrupted current without any shock, we can
use it much stronger than  if the same current gave shocks.
We should proceed by introducing a  long, insulated conductor
into the bladder, and if we could do  so, we should apply it to
and confine it against the stone.  If then the other pole be put
over the  pubes or on the  sacrum, and continued there more
or  less steadily for several days, the  stone will  be found  to
crumble and readily  to break down.  It is not probable that
all  forms of stone would  yield to this process.   [N. Y. Dis-
sector, vol. 2, p. 38 ;  Lond. Lan. vol. 2, p. 581.]
               UN-UNITED FRACTURES.

  It is now quite well established by experiments in this coun-
try  and Europe, that a current from a  Battery or  Magneto-
Electric  machine, will induce a deposit  of ossific matter.  An
uninterrupted  current may be best in this case, but it  should
be  Magnetic, and may be passed directly through  the limb,
transversely and lengthwise, once a day, an hour or two at a
time.   [N. Y. Dissector, vol. 4, p. 31.]
RACHITIS, OR RICKETS—MOLLITES  OSIUM,  OR  SOFT-
  ENING OF BONES—FRAGILITAS OSSIUM, OR HARDEN-
  ING  OF BONES.

  As Rickets is purely a scrofulous disease, resulting from de
ficient  vitality and nutrition, it is evident  that Magnetic-Klec-
tricity  is strongly indicated, and has proved with us, highly 
medically applied.
49
useful as an invigorating, restorative agent, and it makes other
tonics much  more efficient.  Molites Ossium, though some-
what different in character, is,  nevertheless, a  condition  of
faulty autrition and loss of harmony  and motive force in the
vital functions, and involves a similar, general principle  in
treatment.  Fragilitas Ossium is another aberration of the due
performance  of the vital functions, and will be much improved
by this agent, in restoring integrity.  The mode of using the
machine in these forms of disease, is to apply the poles in ge-
neral, over all the vital functions, and in the two first, it would
be best,  to pass  the  current through the hand of a healthy
assistant, directly through from  the spine to  the  front of the
body, and,  probably, this would be best in all three.
             APHONIA.  OR LOSS OF VOICE.

  In this complaint which  is  so  embarrassing to those who
are the principal subjects of it, (singers and public speakers
for the most part, though any one may have it  from cold,) we
have a very ready and prompt remedy in Magnetic-Electricity,
and in this, as in all similar cases,  our prompt  relief  depends
much on the early application of the means, and there should
be no delay, not that we cannot cure if  there be delay, but it
can often be cured with one or two  applications early, while
delay may cause it to be much more protracted.
  Mode of Using the Machine.—We place one pole in both
hands  of the patient, and take  the other  in one  of our
own, and with our other hand, pass the current in all directions
through and over the throat,  (and  we may apply our pole di-
rectly to it) once or  twice  a  day, from fifteen to twenty-five
minutes until the voice be restored.  [Braith.  Ret. No. 8, p.
76 ; No. 17, art. 28 ;  N. Y. Dissector, vol. 1, p. 108.
RHEUMATIC  PERICARDITIS. OR RHEUMATISM  OF OR
                   ABOUT  THE HEART.

  This is a complaint that anybody may have who has Rheu-
matism  of any form,  but  especially acute  or  inflammatory
Rheumatism—and very often inflammatory Rheumatism which 
50
magneto-electricity.
is-seated in the limbs, may undergo a sudden  translation to
the fibrous tissues of and about  the heart, creating suddenly
great distress, alarming symptoms, and immediate danger,  if
not at once relieved, which always has been in very numerous
instances  in our hands in half an hour s time, by the use of
Magnetic-Electricity.  We have never seen this form or loca-
tion of Rheumatism, except it  was connected with general
Inflammatory  Rheumatism.  The ordinary remedies do not
control  it alone, but if assisted by Magnetic-Electricity pro-
perly applied,it is at once dispersed.  [Lond. Lan. vol. 1, 1852,
p. 140 ; Braith. Ret. No.  14, art. 27 ;  N. Y. Dissector, vol.
3, p. 185.
   Mode of Using the  Machine.—We give the patient one
pole in  both his  hands, or apply it to the nape of the neck,
and  the  other  taken in one  of our  hands,  and  apply the
other hand under as strong  a  power of the machine  as can
be well borne in the region of the heart, chest, and diaphragm,
until the  symptoms subside, and  repeat once  a day or as
often as the symptoms occur, if it be two or  three  times a
day, and we have never known  it fail to  relieve the  case at
once, and  cure all these symptoms in two or three days.
              MUSCULAR CONTRACTIONS.

  There are a great variety of forms of Muscular Contrac-
tions, or many localities  where the  contractions have taken
place, and hence some  have bestowed names to them  accord-
ing to location, as wry neck, &c, and they all cause more or
less  deformity to  the  person of the patient wherever they
occur, and great inability of the part.  They are often from a
palsy of the opposing muscle.  We have succeeded in curing
them, without  cutting them at all, for several years, and find
those cures are best, as there is no  injury done to the  muscle,
and never confines the patient; as this, is a matter for the sur-
geon or physician only, ever to attempt, each one will select
his  own mode of operating as the case under consideration
may dictate with  the Magnetic machine.  [See Braith. Ret. No.
4, p. 53 ; N. Y. Dissector, vol. 4, pp.  139, 201.
  Anchylosis  or Stiff Joints.—When  stiff joints occur
from Contracted Muscles, as of the knee,  elbow, and ancle
joint, as it sometimes does, it is always the subject of  succes- 
MEDICALLY APPLIED.
51
ful treatment in this way, and in all instances where  it can be
done, is so infinitely better than by cutting  the  tendons, that
they have no comparison.   Here,  too,  the  Surgeon  will  be
dictated in his use as to the manner of applying the Magnetic
machine,  by his  own  judgment of each case.   [See Braith.
Ret No.  4, p. 110.
                        DROPSY.

  The author is not aware  of any condition in which Dropsy
of  any form exists, that will  not be largely benefitted by
the daily  application  of  Magnetic-Electricity,  to  facilitate
directly absorption of the effused fluid, and promote the action
of remedies administered.   In local  Dropsies, as in Hydro-
cele, Dropsies of the Joints, &c, it often proves in our hands
a remedy by itself, with no medicine.   We  know  of no cir-
cumstance to contra-indicate its use, unless it be fever or inflam-
mation.  Mode of application  of the the machine, must be
directed by the judgment of the physician in each case at the
time.   When we wish simply to promote the action of other
remedies, holding one pole in each hand will be sufficient, and
when we wish to  promote local absorption, we would pass the
current directly through the part, in different directions.  In
anasarcous swellings of the limbs, we apply it to  the limb,
part of the time the patient holds one pole in both hands, and
a part both poles  are applied to the limb.
                       APOPLEXY.

  In all conditions  of effused fluid,  whether of blood in the
brain, or serum in the cavities, great assistance will be  ob-
tained from the  use of  Magnetic-Electricity, to  produce
speedy absorption.   Whether there be symptoms of Paralysis
or not, following after Appoplexy, we are to derive great be-
nefit from the use of this  agent, in producing speedy absorp-
tion of effused fluid.
  The Mode of Applying the Machine, will be  by wetting
the hair of the  head to the skin, and then applying the poles
directly to the head, through the hand, by two persons, each 
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taking a pole in one hand, and applying their other hand to the
head on  the  opposite  sides of the brain, under the weakest
power of the machine to begin  with, and  then  increase it to
what the patient can bear.  It may be repeated  two or three
limes a day from fifteen  to twenty minutes  at  a time.  [See
Braith. Ret. No. 18, art. 24  and 25.
PALSY, OR PARALYSIS—LOSS  OF MOTION  OR  SENSA-
            TION, OR BOTH, IN ANY  PART.

  There are so many  forms of the above complaint,  and
authors have been fond of giving them names  according to
their location, sensation, or motion, that although we may re-
tain the names to save confusion, the  same principle of treat-
ment is to be followed, and when  there  are any modifications
to be observed, we will note them.   We shall proceed to speak
of the  treatment in detail, under the names as applied to forms
and locations, and shall  give the mode of application under a
general head for all forms, and shall also speak of anyprefered
mode in any particular form.
  We  do not deem it necessary to speak of the causes of Pa-
ralysis, except so far as names are applied to it, believing that
all will know that they have some form of the above complaint,
when they have lost either sensation, motion, taste, smell, see-
ing, hearing, or loss of power over the evacuations of the
body, &c , &c.  We  do not, here, feel called  upon to give a
characteristic description, nor need  we say much about the
general consent throughout the world of the best and most in-
telligent men in the  profession, that  Electricity in some form
is the best, and, in many instances, the  only remedy, now re-
lied upon for the treatmeftt of any form  of palsy. It has been
and is still, one of those special subjects that have daily engaged
the attention of the author for many years, and with a degree
of success surpassing all former conceptions of the power of
the agent in this yery .troublesome complaint.   We also feel
bound  to say that if anybody has used it, without any consider-
able degree of success, the fault  is either in their* manner oj
applying it, the character of their machine, (which is of all im-
portance,) or want ef perse re ranee.  Thus, much, we are able 
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to say without regard to the age of the patient, or the cause of
Paralysis ; at the  same  time we would not be understood to
say, that all cases, can be perfectly cured, but they have been
in our hands benefitted to a greater or less  extent ;  and we
have used the machine on cases of from  three days to fifteen
years standing, and have always either cured, or decidedly be-
nefitted  the  case.   Where the Palsy arose from blows,  or
mechanical injury to the nerve,  we have not been disappointed
in obtaining some degree of success.
  Palsy of  the Face, or one side of the Face.—We have
treated  many cases of this form  of Palsy,  and have never
failed in curing them (if very recent) in from three to seven ap-
plications of the Magnetic-Machine; and if of several months
standing, from  one to two weeks daily  application  has been
sufficient, when it did not arise from mechanical injury—with
no  other remedies.
      PARALYSIS  AGITANS,  OR  SHAKING PALSY.

  This disease is characterized by a constant shaking and un-
steady agitation  of the head, or limbs; and in the attempted
movements of the  person,  the power to move, and the direc-
tion of the motion are very uncertain, as the mind  or will has
a very inconstant control over all of the voluntary motions of
the limbs and body.                                          <
  The Mode  of Using the Machine.—In this form of Palsy,
one  pole should be held  in  one hand of an  assistant, who
should place his other  hand on the top of the back  part of the
head, or on the nape of the neck of the diseased person.   The
other pole  should be  in  the hand of the operator, who,
with  his other hand, should pass the current over the  chest,
stomach, bowels, limbs and spine, once a day from twenty to
thirty minutes at a time.
  Hysterical Palsy.—It  is a  matter well established that
this form of Palsy yields readily to the Magnetic  treatment,
with such other remedies as each  case may indicate. The mode
of using  the machine will be governed by  the general princi-
ples as to the  location  of the Paralysis, and in all recent cases
the physician is to expect entire and prompt success.   [See
Braith.  Ret.  No.  21, art. 27, 28.] 
54                 MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
   PALSY OF A HAND, ARM, LEG, OR A  WHOLE SIDE.

   In Palsy of a hand only, or the lower part of the  leg, as it
 occurs in children from one to  three years old from the-irrita-
 tion of teething, joined  to the tendency to  irritation  of the
 bowels at this period of life, and hot weather, we have always
 succeeded in curing, when the case was recent, whether the
 brain was involved or  not, without any medicine.  These are
 the cases out of which many or all of the deformities  of the
 feet and hands grow, that  were  not on the child when born,
 and to these cases we  have devoted our principal attention
 since we have  been in  the  practice  of treating deformities.
 These deformities come by neglecting to cure the Palsy when
vit comes, and these we cure without cutting the tendons better
 than  any man can  do, by cutting them.   These Palsies and
 Deformities  may follow after an attack of  any severe illness,
 as of  scarlet or other fever, fits from worms, teething, dysen-
 tery, diarrhoea,  cholera infantum, &c, &c.
   Palsy of the  above kind and location may appear in  youth
 and adult life, but then the cause is different, as from standing in
 cold water, undue pressure over a nerve, &c, and  is equally
 easy of cure  if taken in seasonable time.  Indeed, in all forms
 of Palsy, the  difficulty  of cure  arises much  from neglect
 in bringing  Magnetic-Electricity  to bear early, and in tem-
 porizing with other means  on which there  is  but little and
 a doubtful reliance to be  placed.  In all cases of  neglect, there
 is either a  permanent loss  of power and use  of the  limb,
 or a deformity will follow, as one set of muscles are more
 perfectly paralyzed than the other.
   General  Palsy, or where the whole body, or a  consider-
 able portion  of both sides are involved, as after a fit of apo-
 plexy, or where a fall or blow, injuring the spine, has occurred,
 is a very  serious  and  dangerous  case.  If the patient  be
 not immediately destroyed, you  have a right to place great
 hope and reliance  for a perfect restoration, by resorting im-
 mediately to Magnetic-Electricity, to produce a prompt ab-
 sorption of effused blood or fluid, and to restore a connection
 and harmony in the action of the oppressed nerves. The indi-
 cations of treatment are all the same, if sensation and motion,
 or either of  them are lost.
   Painter's Palsy.—The poisonous effects of  lead upon the
 human system have long had the  reputation of producing two
 forms of serious disease—Painter's Colic and Palsy, both  of 
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which  have been  very successfully treated  with Magnetic-
Electricity, and  we have no  remembrance of failing in any
instance.
  Incontinence of Urine.—In children and  many persons
in adult life, the inability of holding their water, or its passing
from them without their knowledge, is source of great misery
and wretchedness, .destroying all  hopes of future happiness
and comfort.  With these means it is perfectly curable.  We
believe in all cases, so far as  we have used it, it has proved so.
As it is always owing either to a loss  of nervous or muscular
power or both, it will be seen that it comes directly and appro-
priately under these-means, and should  always be attended to
early,  before the habit becomes  of long standing and the pa-
tient's  hopes are shrouded in gloom and darkness. [See Braith.
Ret. No. 9, art. 47.]
  Inability to hold  the  contents   of  the Bowels,  is
another form of a most distressing loss of power, and exists
from like causes as the above, is subject to the same remarks,
and is  cured in like manner.
  Deafness,  in some of its  forms, is owing to a Paralysis of
the auditory nerve, or nerve  of hearing, and when this  is its
cause,  it  can most certainly be cured by these means if used
in a proper manner.
  Impaired Vision, and sometimes Blindness is produced by
a Palsy of the optic nerve, or nerve of sight, and when sight
is thus lost, these are the legitimate means of restoration. We
have had a remarkable case which will  be detailed in another
book, where both sight and hearing, from protracted chronic
disease was much injured, and were both perfectly restored
from the use of these means, together with the general health
of the  patient.
  Treatment   of  Palsy with  Magnetic-Electricity.—
We shall claim  the right of speaking of this form of disease,
as if there was  no other  remedy for it, for when compared
with this, they all, without exception, sink into insignificance.
We speak with  knowledge on this subject, having the full test
of years of experience.   We shall also, here, take the liberty
of repeating, that if others do  not have the same or similar
success, it must be owing to the faulty arrangement of the ma-
chine  they use,  their want of knowledge to apply it, or their
lack of perseverance, for there  is  neither mystery or  secret
about it.
  In the  first place, we would say that, although in this form 
56                magneto-electricity
of disease you  are  more likely to obtain a degree of benefit
from the simple Electrical-Machine, or the Galvanic Battery,
and it is the only cases where they are good for anything ; you
are by no means to expect the same amount of relief, in double
the time as you are from a properly constructed Electro-Mag-
netic machine, nor from any of them, as from a properly made
Magneto-Electric machine.  We  are well  aware  that many
who have written on this subject in Europe and America, have
made statements differing from our own in some measure but
they do not detail the success that we are able to do : and we
know that the distinction we make is, in many instance:;, en-
tirely essential to success.  We simply leave this matter here,
by saying that the kind and form of machines described in this
book, are the only ones entitled to confidence, unless they are
constructed on exactly the same principles.
  The Mode of Using the Machine  will be varied  more
by the location of the disease than by any other circumstance.
In palsy of the  lower extremity, we generally  immerse the
foot in warm water, and put one pole  in  the  bath  and the
other  should be held in the hands of the patient, or applied  to
the nape of the neck or spine and kept there. The foot should
be retained in the bath from ten to  twenty minutes, and the
water  kept at  a  temperature  of  from 95 to 100  Faenheit..
Then  on  removing  the foot or feet, if both are palsied, we
wipe them and take  the pole that was in the bath in one of our
hands, the other pole being still held by the patient, we apply
the current to the limb through the other hand for five or ten
minutes until it is drv.  We do the same  if  it be both or one
limb that is palsied,  and repeat it once a day or more under as
strong a power of the machine as the patient can well bear.
  In Palsy of  the  Face we give  the  patient one  pole  in
both hands, having  wet the sponge with  which it  is cover-
ed.   The other sponge, also wet, may be applied directly  to
the face  under a moderate power, but it is better if applied
through the hand of a healthy person.  The power  may  be
increased to as much as the patient can well bear.  It may  be
continued from fifteen to twenty-five  minutes and  repeated
every day, or even twice a day.
  In Palsy of  the Hands and  Feet  the  same rules and
principles will be observed.
  In applying it for Incontinence of Urine we apply one pole
the lower part  of the spine, and the other placed low on the
bowels immediately  over the bladder under a moderate power, 
medically applied.
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and continue it until relieved.   The pole used in front may be
put entirely on the private parts over the urinary passage.
   The Spasmodic Retention of Urine  may be  treated  in the
same way, so far as using the machine  is concerne.d, as inconti-
nance  of urine.
   In Inability to hold the contents of  the bowels one  pole of
the machine should  be  applied on the small of the back, and
the other on the lower end of the bowel, under a good power
of the machine.
   In Deafness^/towi a palsy of the nerve of hearing, or auditory
nerve,  the patient should  hold one pole in his hand,  or  it
would be better to put it in his mouth, and we  place  a small
conductor made on purpose in the ear, first putting in  a small
roll of cotton wool, wet, to diffuse the current,  and we some-
times use it through  ourself, and place  one  finger for a con-
ductor in the ear.
   In using it for Impaired Vision, we always pass the  current
through the hand to  ihe eye, whether it be blindness or im-
paired vision.
   In Palsy from Lead the general rules and principles will
be the same as in Palsy generally.  [See Lond. Lan.  vol. 12,
p. 512; vol. 4, 1846, pp. 211, 328; Braith.  Ret. No.  3, pp.
22, 23, 24, 25, 22; No. 5, p. 63  ; No.  4, p. 63 ;  No. 9, p. 89 ;
No. 16, p. 103 ;  No. 13, p. 53 ; No.  14, p. 55  ; No.  21, pp.
85, 87.
         PHLEGMASIA DOLENS, OR  MILK LEG.

  The author has, in  all cases,  succeeded in relieving the
swelling of the limbs in cases of this kind, with little trouble,
compared with any other mode, after they have become chro-
nic, or of long standing.   Having, in our own practice, never
had a single case but what we  cured by other means, while
they were acute or inflammatory, we cannot say what its ac-
tion would be in this stage.  In those cases of long standing,
and  where the limbs were dropsical, ulcerated, and varicose
veins existed,  with the ulcers very irritable and painful, we
have succeeded in bringing perfect relief in a very reasonable
time.  We have always used other means in conjunction, such
as bandages, frictions,  and such as  seemed to be indicated in
each case. 
58                 MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY

  Swelled Limbs after Fevers, that have been badly treat-
ed we have also succeeded in bringing to a healthy state,
when ulcerated, dropsical, and having abscesses formed in them,
such as other physicians,  who did not use this agent, (or Mag-
netic-Electricity,) had told  the patients that nothing but time
could  relieve,  or  they  must be  cripples  for life.   Indeed
we have found comparatively no trouble in curing any of these
cases, when we use this agent in conjunction with other means,
such as bandages, friction, &c.
  Elephantiasis.—We have never had a case of this kind to
treat since we have  been in the habit of using Magnetism, but
have a great anxiety to try it. From what we know of its powers
to promote healthy action  in any part, we should look, with
much  confidence, for  a  favorable result, and will be much
obliged to any physician who can favor us with an  opportunity
to do so, or that will use it  himself, and send us a statement of
its result.
  The Mode of Using the Machine, in the last three states,
viz : Phlegmasia Dolens, Swelled Limbs after Fever, and Ele-
phantiasis is so nearly the same that we shall describe them toge
ther.  In all we use  the foot bath of water  at a temperature of
100 to 105 or 8° Farenheit, with an insulated bath conductor, by
putting the foot or feet, and  one pole from the machine  into the
bath, and the other pole held in both hands, keeping the water
in the  bath hot by adding warm or hot water occasionally for
half an hour, and then remove the foot and  wipe  it well, and
taking the pole from  the bath in one  hand, with the other
hand rub the limb thoroughly all over, with the current pass-
ing through the hand to the limb.
  Then we apply thorough friction by the hands to the limbs,
and apply such medicine to  the limb as we judge it needs, and
lastly apply a roller or bandage well and properly, repeating
the whole operation every day.
                     ERYSIPELAS.

  In Erysipelas, in every form, the author has derived the
most unequivocal benefit from the use of Magnetic-Electricity.
In all the eruptive diseases, that are called varieties of Erysi-
pelas, it has  universally disappeared  where  this agent has
been used with any degree  of regularity, in connection with 
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various scrofulous diseases and conditions that have been the
author's special practice, in some instances, without any other
means, in others the patients were taking the Iodide of Manga-
nese, or lodureted Chloride of Gold, and some cases Arsenic.
In Phlegmonous Erysipelas we should apply the current di-
rectly to the part, by the wet  sponges on the poles, and we
may give the patient one pole in his hand, and apply the other
directly to the part, or through our own hand to the part,  wet-
ting the surface  with salt and water, or muriate of Ammonia
dissolved in water.
   We should do the same in  every eruption that was consi-
dered either Scrofulous or Erysipelatous, with confident expec-
tations of a cure, other things being favorable. [See Channing
p. 176.]
                     SALT RHEUM.

  The author has succeeded in curing the worst case of Salt
Rheum he ever saw, in five or six weeks, by the use of no
other means than the Magnetic machine, used  only on the
spine and chest for a cure of curvature; and all the medicine
that was  given  was  to keep the child's bowels regular, give^
them good nourishing food and plenty of  exercise, and twice
a day a mixture  of Arsenic, and the  lodureted  Chloride of
Gold, and now five years have elapsed without either a return
of the Erysipelas or Deformity of the Spine.
  We have had equal success with all eruptions that are either
Erysipelatous or Scrofulous in character, and in the case above
alluded to, it had been of seven years standing, and the child's
linen and the bed linen would be stiff in places with blood, and
stick to her person, and some joints could  not be moved with-
out starting the blood.
                       CATARRH.

  In all forms of Catarrh, wherever located, we know not bo
efficient a remedy for it as Magnetic-Electricity, whether of
the vagina, lungs or air passages, throat or nasal cavities, and
in all cases where there has been a persevering effort made, it 
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MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
has been attended with success, sometimes with, and at other
times without any other remedy being used.  Apply one pole
directly to the part and hold the other in the hand.
            STRAINS, SPRAINS AND BRUISES.

   A.11 physicians are well aware of the difficulties that often
attend the restoration of a joint that has been sprained, as of
the wrist or ankle, &c, and of the extreme difficulty of resto-
ring efficient  contractile power to  muscles  that have been
strained from lifting or other violent exercise in the forearm
or  shoulder,  and subsequently  become  inflamed, and as  a
consequence loose nearly all their contractile power.
   We  have  always  succeeded  in  restoring the  muscles
to  their natural power in  a very few days  in the very
worst cases we ever saw, and in  those  that are more mild, in
two to four applications of the machine.
   In Bruises two or three applications  will generally remove
all the effects of it, or the black and blue appearance.
.   Mode of Applying  the  Machine.—Apply both poles to
the part in such a manner as to pass the current through it in
all directions, during a part of the time of each application, and
finish by giving the patient one pole in  his hand, and we take
the other pole, with one  hand, and apply it directly to the part
with our other hand.  Tf there be a coldness of the foot or
hand affected, we put it  into a hot  bath, and  put one pole in
the bath, and finish with our hand.  [Channing, p.  188.]
                   AGUE AND FEVER.

  In districts of country where Ague and Fever prevail, there
is always much call for Medical Magnetism, on account of that
low, cold and inactive state of the nervous, circulating systems,
and deranged function that prevails. We do not offer it as a cure
for Ague, but as a very important assistant in securing the ac-
tion of other means and furnishing  vitality, and assisting to
restore function.
  We do not think it worth much to arrest a chill after it has
commenced,  but if used an hour or more before the  chill 
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should appear, it will do much  to mitigate its severity, and
oftentimes to avert it altogether.
  In the early stages of Ague and Fever, it is most useful to
promote and secure the  efficiency of other medicine,  but  in
cases of long standing in which there is a tendency to dropsy,
ague-cake  in  the side, swelled  limbs,  &c, it  is  a powerful
curative agent to give action, warmth and vitality to  the sys-
tem.  [Channing, p. 138.]
  Mode of Using  the  Machine.—The author when he
wishes to avert the chill, about an hour  and a half before the
chill should appear, puts the feet of  the patient into a hot bath,
(say one hundred Farenheit) halfway up to the knees, puts one
pole into the bath, the  bath to be kept  hot  by  adding hot
water often, and gives the other pole into both  hands of the
patient, sets the machine going with as much power .as can
well be borne, and lets it run half an hour or more, removes the
patient from the bath, keeping the feet warm and dry, and the
patient still in bed.
  When we used it to dissipate  dropsy, or ague-cakes in the
side, we apply it more directly to the part, and we use it every
day.  [Channing, p. 137, 138.]
ONANISM,  MASTURBATION,  NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS,
                  OR  SELF POLLUTION.

   tn the above conditions, so surely destructive  and ruinous
to both body and  mind of the patient, the author has  great
reason to be satisfied with the result of Magnetic-Electricity,
used to give a natural tone and vigor to enfeebled  and debili-
tated organs, and allay the morbid excitement which will, in-
evitably, sooner or later, induce a kind  of insanity, and  bring
on other fatal  diseases, as consumption, idiocy, &c, if not at
once arrested.
  We  use this agent, as an important  auxiliary, to aid in
promptly restoring vigor, and it has been very useful.
  Mode of Using the Machine.—We give the patient both
poles in  his hands first, one in each, and after ten or fifteen
minutes take one pole and pass it over the lungs,  stomach and
bowels,  and lastly over the privates, for ten or fifteen minutes
or more, once each day.   The  physician will direct the  other
remedies to be used.   [N. Y. Dissector, vol. 2, p. 208.] 
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                          COMA.

   When Coma is brought on by physical exhaustion, or great
fatigue, or from excessive mental emotions, or prostration from
spasms, or protracted and exhausting disease, Magnetic-Elec-
tricity furnishes a prompt and  ready  means of restoration,
which no other agent can give, by restoring  at once a degree
of natural vitality to all the functions of life.  [Braith. Ret.
No. 18, art. 26.]
   Mode  of  Using  the Machine.—Apply  one pole to the
the nape of the neck, and the other to the chest, heart, stomach,
bowels and limbs, under a good degree of power,  as  will be
comfortable.   In some  instances, it would be better applied
through the hands of two persons, in like manner, one holding
each a pole, and applying the other hand to the  person of the
patient.
   Crisis  of  Fevers.—Every physician and nurse knows that
all severe fevers have critical days, on some one of which  the
fever is said  to have turned.  On these days,  the  physician
watches  with great care the crisis, if the patient be very 3ick,
and  danger  apprehended, that  this  change  will be unfavor-
able.  In violent fevers that set in suddenly, we may  look for a
sudden subsidence in the febrile action, in which case many pa-
tients die  of exhaustion on the critical days, or turn of the
fever,  who would be  saved, if they  had their vitality  and
strength supported and supplied by Magnetic-Electricity. We
should not omit the use  of stimulants and tonics in these cases,
but.Medical Magnetism will make them much more potent.
The same remarks are applicable to those, that were made un-
der Crisis of Fevers, to  all forms of exhaustion from severe or
protracted disease of any kind, or from discharges from  ab-
scesses, loss of blood, ulcers, or discharges of any kind, cavity
of bones, &c.
  Mode   of   Applying  the  Machine.—Pass a  current
through the hands of two healthy persons to the patient, gene-
rally over the body and  limbs,  as often and  as  long as each
case may indicate, from fifteen to thirty minutes.  [Channing,
pp. 137, 138.]
                      DYSPEPSIA.
  For years past, in the prosecution of our special practice of
the treatment of Chronic diseases  generally, and Scrofulous 
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affections in particular, we have frequently met with Dyspep-
sia as a principal disease, or  as a  very prominent symptom,
and  as a consequence, very deficient nutrition.  In all  cases
thus far, the Dyspepsia has readily disappeared under the use
of Magnetic-Electricity,  used as  a principal  remedy, or as
an auxiliary in the case,  and  we should expect this result al-
ways, where there was no considerable organic derangement
of the stomach, or  other organs,  upon which the Dyspepsia
depended, and in that case it  would do as much or more than
any other remedy to modify  the  symptoms and  improve the
condition of the patient.   In those cases of Dyspepsia attended
with sour stomach, pain  in the stomach, spitting up the  food,
disti-ess in the stomach  after eating, with a  dull drowsiness,
headache and costiveness, we have found prompt relief to fol-
low  the  use  of Magnetic-Electricity, with or without other
remedies, as the case required.
  Mode of  using  the  Machine  in  Dyspepsia.—Pass a
current of good strength  right through the stomach, by placing
one pole on the spine opposite to  the stomach, and the other
carried  all over the  stomach  and bowels every  day once or
twice, or the patient  may take one pole in both hands,  and the
operator passes the  other pole over the stomach,  chest and
bowels, down the spine from twenty to thirty minutes at a time,
twice a day if needed.   [Channing, pp. 53, 145.J
  Pain in the Stomach and Bowels.—In cases of pain  in
the stomach and bowels  from indigestible food, or a  morbid
irritation and tenderness  of the mucous surface of the same;
and those pains in the bowels of children that are of frequent
occurrence, and distressing to bear, are always readily relieved
in a very few minutes by the  application of Magnetic-Electri-
city, applied as directed under the head of Dyspepsia.  [Chan-
ning, p. 114.]
                 SPASMODIC DISEASES.

  We know of no form of Spasmodic disease, of ordinary
and common spasms, that can in any way be so readily con-
trolled as by Magnetic-Electricity.  Of course, the physician
must have reference to  the cause of the spasm, and be  go-
verned accordingly in his location of the application and man-
ner of doing it, to insure success, and be governed by general 
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principles.   [Lond. Lan. vol. 6, p. 72 ;  Braith. Ret. No. 6, p.
27 ; Channing, p. 135.]
                        EPILEPSY.

   In Epilepsy, depending upon general or local nervous irri-
 tation, or mere functional derangement of nerves, or other im-
 portant organs, we have  derived much benefit, and suspended
 entirely the epileptic paroxysms ; and in some instances palsy,
 more or less perfect, had existed in the cases which were also
 cured.   Indeed, we have never used it without benefit in any
 case, and some have been cured by it. We used it as an auxil-
iary, or  we do not think the other means would have cured
 without  it,  and this may not have cured, without the  other
 means.  TVe use the machine generally  over the person once a
 day.  [Channing, pp. 129,  130.]
NERVOUS  SYSTEM, NERVOUS DISEASES, SYMPATHETIC
  NERVE,  ANIMAL  HEAT, PERIODICITY OF  DISEASE,
  SYNCOPE OR FAINTING, AND WAKEFULNESS.

  In all the above forms of disease, the nervous system, either
of animal life, (as the sensitive and voluntary functions) or the
nervous system  of organic or vegetable life, as respiration, cir-
culation, digestion or nutrition, and secretions, or  both  are
largely involved in producing  the symptoms and phenomena
that characterize both, and whatever it be, or whether both, the
legitimate, natural and principal remedy is Magnetic-Elec-
tricity; and in almost all forms of chronic, scrofulous and
nervous diseases, these conditions exist to a greater or less de-
gree in every instance, no matter whether it  be  derangement
of the stomach,  kidneys, liver, uterus, or the  two nervous sys-
tems above mentioned, the one  will bring into deranged action
the other, and must be corrected by a proper selection of me-
dicine, and  Magnetic-Electricity to exalt their  action, and
oftentimes the latter remedy will be sufficient for all curative
purposes.  In all derangement of the nervous system, pro-
ducing nervous diseases, Magnetic-Electricity is  the  true
source of supplying, in  an artificial way, a natural agent that
gives health and power, that can in no other way be  obtained. 
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  In derangements of the Sympathetic Nerve, we have dis-
turbed digestion, disturbed  circulation and respiration, faulty
nutrition,  irregular uterine action, &c, or some one of them,
with, in some instances, a tendency to coldness, either general
or of the feet and hands.
  Animal Heat, or the  natural temperature of the body is
always restored by this agent.
  Periodicity of Disease, or periodical affections, not con-
nected with natural functions, are generally interrupted by this
agent with or without other means.
  Syncope, or Fainting, will always be instantly restored by a
current of this agent passed through the system, from the neck
to the stomach, or the hands. [See Channing, pp. 16, 41, 59.]
  Wakefulness, or Watchfulness  and Want of Sleep,
from  nervous excitability, irritability and restlessness, has been
always readily overcome by using this  agent on the  person,
through the hands of two healthy persons just before bed time
at night.  It is to  be  used  by passing  the current with  the
hand of one person on the spine,  holding one  pole in their
other hand, and with one pole in the hand of the other person
and their other hand passed over the chest,  6tomach, bowels
and limbs, and may be done with no assistant, by putting both
feet in a hot bath, with one pole in the bath, and the other held
in both hands of the patient for half an  hour.
CASES OF APPARENT  DEATH,  IN  WHICH  THERE IS
  DOUBT IF THE PATIENT BE  NOT  ALIVE, IN SOME OF
  WHICH, PERSONS HAVE  BEEN KNOWN TO COME  TO
  LIFE IN THE GRAVE.

  Under these circumstances, which some have called a trance,
some suspended animation, while others have said it was a ca-
taleptic condition, but all agreeing that it is  apparent  death,
and that many have been buried in it, and have been known to
be not dead, from the fact that the coffins have been opened,
and the persons changed in position, turned over, their clothes
torn, and even  their own  flesh, it is very desirable  to know
of some means  by which such an event never need occur, as it
did often at the  time of the first appearance of Asiatic Cholera
in this country.  Magnetic-Electricity, applied as directed un-
der the head of Drowning, Poisoning by Opium, &c, through
incisions, would arouse  any element or principle of life that 
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might remain, as certainly and surely as it does in those con-
ditions, and would at once re-kindle the vital spark, but in this
case after breathing and circulation was established, it should
be used as directed under Coma, and with great gentleness.
        RENEWED AGE, OR SUSTAINED YOUTH.

  The observations of the author  for a period of near nine
years of the daily use of Magnetic-Electricity, has  resulted in
ascertaining many facts, and some curious, unlooked-for results,
until they had occurred so many times, and with such unifor-
mity, that he is induced to make the following statement to
draw the attention of others to it, for a more extended obser-
vation and mature  knowledge.   In his  own person, he has
passed a  current through himself,  to  his  patients, on  an
average of from two to five  hours  every day, for the above
mentioned time, and the changes in him, are, that previous to
this, for a period of fifteen years, he suffered as much  from
Dyspepsia as any one we ever knew, that had no organic dis-
ease with  it of the stomach or bowels, and since which time he
has had  no Dyspepsia—and would not know he had a sto-
mach, but for a good appetite.  His  weight  has increased  from
fifty to sixty pounds, with strong health under reasonable  use ;
also, every spring and fall,  since  he was nine years old,  from
three to six weeks,  he was crippled  with  chronic rheumatism,
which was hereditary in his family, and he can say that he has
not felt a rheumatic  pain but once in eight years, and that was
from  extreme exposure, and did not last an hour; and his hair
is not as gray now as it was in 1813, and others say he does not
look to be as old, and two daguerreotypes of him taken at differ-
ent periods prove this fact.  The same remarks have been  veri-
fied in all  cases as to appetite, and flesh in a degree, of course
not so strongly, as perhaps no one ever used it through their
person, as much as he has.
  We have used it in numerous instances of advanced age, in
persons from fifty-five to seventy-five years, with some singular
results, one in particular was, that the hair, before very white
with age, soon commenced to turn to its youthful color.   The
change was first observed  on the eyebrows by their turning
black, from a perfect gray or wliite ; so that in this  instance,
there was seven gray hairs only left in one  eyebrow, and five 
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in the other, by count, after using  the  agent daily  for  five
weeks ;  the whiskers on the cheeks were next observed to be
undergoing^ the same change, and on a close  examination of
the head, which was much bald, it was discovered that the hair
was much  changed, and on the bald part where there was a
fine crop of short hairs appearing, they were also dark.  We
have seen the same in several instances. We have also observed
some cases where the  parties had worn glasses to obviate de-
fective vision from age, in which  in a month's  time of use of
this  agent for other difficulties daily, they have  been able to lay
aside their glasses entirely, and said they saw as well as ever
without them, and all their motions and actions gave evidence
of renewed powers and vigor.  The skin undergoes a change,
and  from a dry, shriveled, and old appearance,  it puts on a soft,
elastic, and plump feel and look, and these changes take place
in from one to three months of daily use of the agent, without
any  reference to anything but the diseased condition for which
we recommended it.  A lady who has used it more or less for
eight years for a diseased condition under which she was la-
boring, does  not look as old as she did ten years  ago—so all
her  acquaintacces remark, and she has a  fine skin, and not  a
grey hair, and  years have  numbered quite  high with  her.
These are  not single cases by any means, they are numerous,
and  of common occurrence.  We do not mean to say that it
will arrest the march of time, or its marks upon  the " human
form divine," nor offer it as an antidote to  age, but we do
say,  that some seem to have a rejuvenated appearance, and
a new lease  of life, and others  seem to have  the ordinary
marks of time and  age  deferred, even at a liberal number of
years by count.
  We have not said as much on this interesting subject  of
robbing time of its power }o deface us who are youthful, and
those who are beautiful, as the facts  in our possession would
warrant, but we only intended to  draw the attention of other
observers to the same point, to  see if facts  sufficient to estab-
lish  the  truth of it, as a general result,  could be  brought to
light.  We sincerely hope  all our  friends will not speak  at
once, who so much dread, and fear the marks of time on their
fair forms and faces, as if they do, we might be overcome with
the rush for rejuvenation to restore lost or fading  beauty, and
departing agility.
  The above  results are perfectly consistant with our theory
of the action of the agent upon the animal economy, as we do 
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and have always contended that it was the principle of vitality
or  of life, or the result of the action of that  principle, what-
ever it be called, that distinguishes man from inorganio-matter,
as a living, moviug being, subject to his will, acted upon  by
mind and motive, when, in a state of health, all the forces are
in harmony and balanced in their action, and when the system
is diseased they are thrown out  of balance, and discord pre-
vails the same as in the solar system, as described by the  poet:

           "Where, the great scales destroyed,
           From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike,
           Tenth or ten thousandth breaks the chain alike ;
           And if each system in gradation roll,
           Alike essential to the amazing whole,
           The least confusion but iu  one, not all
           That system only, but the  whole must fall;
           Let Earth, unbalanced from her orbit fly,
           Planets and sun run lawless through the sky;
           Let ruling angles from their spheres be hurl'd,
           Being on being wrecked, and world on world;
           Heaven's whole foundation to their centre nod,
           And Nature trembles to the throne of God."

  The same beauty, harmony and regularity must prevail, in
the healthy animal economy of the human  system, and  when
the beauty, delicacy and importance of each  function, in its
proper  relation, is  understood and appreciated in all their
bearings, it will seem  marvellous that  we preserve our lives
and health as well as we do, when there  are so  many  sources
and avenues to disturb their balance.   And  while it is conce-
ded by  the  wisest and best philosophers, that it is Magnetism
that holds the material universe together,  and Electricity is
the source of all motion in matter, we do boldly assert, that it
is a combination of these  agents, and  a  modification of their
forces that constitutes life in us, and their due balance of force
that constitutes health,  which we  received when, as we  read,
God breathed into us the breath of life  and we became a living
soul.   Some call it life, or the principle  of life, some  vitality,
which term we like the best, and shall use  it as meaning the
same as when we speak of the Magnetic forces of the human
system, and we prove the truth of our position by the certainty
that we do restore it when enfeebled  as in disease, by  using
Magnetic-Electricity, and we also prove that a certain  amount
of  Magnetic force  must be secured by the proper arrange-
ment of the machine,  or we do not supply the essential quali- 
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  ties of the agent to make it valuable, as is abundantly proved
  by the fact that simple Electricity and Galvanism from a bat-
  tery alone, will not do it.   It is a matter  established with us,
  beyond all  doubt or argument,  that all  feeble and delicate
  persons and children will-have much better and stronger health
  by the use of  a properly arranged  Magneto-Electric machine
  once a day on their persons, and resist deleterious influences on
  their health much  better than without it.   All persons that are
  liable to perform  excessive labor of body or mind, inducing
  great fatigue, causing great excitement,  by means of which the
  vital forces are greatly and  rapidly exhausted, great mental ex-
  citements and excesses.loss  of sleep, dissipations of all kinds, the
  bad effects of which will be greatly averted by the use of this
  agent on such occasions.  The  approach of the appearance of
  age or  years  will be postponed in all.   Youthful  looks and
  vigor will be preserved to  a later period of life.  We cannot
  better compare the action  of this agent upon the human sys-
  tem, than  to say it is like  the fire  to the boiler of the steam
  engine, and the food is fuel, and after  fuel  is gone and the fire
  extinguished, the power ceases  to act, or else the engine would
  keep in motion until the  machinery was all worn out; or like
  the action of Magnetism in the celestial and terrestrial world,
* if it ceased to act, and to preserve the balance of the universe,
  all would go into confusion  and destruction.
    As we shall have occasion to  revert to this subject again, un-
  der the head of Physical Development and Growth of Chil-
  dren, we shall leave it, with a  few suggestions as to the lime
  and manner of using the  machine for such purposes as are
  mentioned under this  head, and one  more that  we  will now
V add, and that is for Baldness, or Falling of the  Hair, giving
  occasion to apprehend baldness.  When this condition exists
k  as a strong  family characteristic and hereditary, we should
  expect  less than  when it was accidental,  as  from  com-
  mon causes, but in either case, we  have no doubt but much
  would  be accomplished to  encourage a vigorous and healthy
  growth of hair ; also gray hair  is  most always owing to an un-
  healthy state of the skin on the head, and  a proper secretion
  at the root of the hair, in which the coloring matter is not  se-
  creted, which in a  great many cases would be restored.
    Manner of Using the Machine under this heading,  is
  altogether general, and  is best  accomplished by immersing
  both feet in a warm bath, and putting one pole of the machine
  into the bath, and holding  the other in the hands under a mo- 
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derate power of the machine from twenty to thirty minutes;
and the best time is, at night, just before retiring to bed.  If it
be not convenient to get a foot bath, one pole can be taken in
each hand, and held for a time, and then pass one pole with a
wet sponge on it over  the  chest, stomach, bowels and limbs,
with a moderate degree of strength, or you  may get another
person to pass the current over you through their hand. When
it  is  to be used on the head for gray hairs or baldness, we
should recommend covering  the head with a large cloth folded
several thicknesses, and wet, or  a  large flat  wet sponge, laid
on the  head,  (the, hair being first well wet, if there is any,)
and let the patient hold one pole in bis hand, or set his foot or
feet on it, and then with the weakest power of the machine to
begin with, and increased as the patient can bear it, set the ma-
chine in motion, and continue it from a quarter to half an hour
each  day or evening.
                        ASTHMA.

  In Asthma, the author has repeatedly availed himself of the
benefits of Magnetic-Electricity, with decided and prompt be-
nefit, after other remedies had seemed  to  do all  they could,
without cure,  or permanent relief.   Iu most  cases, and es-
pecially such as are from nervous  irritation,  and called Spas-
modic  Asthma,  it will certainly allay the spasms and relieve
the paroxysm, and by continuing its use allay the nervous
irritability, and  so strengthen the nerves that  the p-noxysms
do not return.   We have  always used other  means in con-
junction, and would not say it would cure alone.
  Dr.  Wilson Philip says of this  agent, that, "perhaps, in no
disease is this agent (Magnetic-Electricity) of greater value
than in  cases  of Asthma, and 1  particularly  recommend  it
for this complaint.   In nearly every  case of Asthma I have
had, I  have been successful."   He says :  "A lady from Tor-
quay was brought to me in a carriage, so dreadfully afflicted
with the Asthma, that her friends imagined every moment she
would be suffocated ; indeed, it  was  enough to make one's
heart ache to witness the agonies she  was enduring.   I placed
her under the action of the apparatus (Machine,) administer-
ing it so gently that it caused  no uneasiness.   In ten minutes 
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her  anxious friends,  as well  as  myself,  noticed  that  the
breathing  was  getting  easier;  in  five minutes more,  she
exclaimed,  ' thank  God,  I am relieved !'  She  was  now
breathing  quiet, and  told  me  she wished  she  had tried  it
years ago, and bad not listened to the advice of her attending
physician, who was continually ridiculing the agent here used
for her relief.   In one month she left me, quite free from the
complaint.   I have heard from her lately,  and been  informed
that she mounts a high hill with the hilarity of a  young girl."
The ridicule that Dr. Wilson Philip's  patient speaks of,  is of
very common  occurrence in this country from a class of me-
dical men, that are so weak and selfish as to imagine that they
embody in themselves all  that  is  known, or are too old to
learn  anything new, and  it is, without  any   doubt, from
my  own  observation, a  cause  of sending  thousands yearly
to  their  grave, or  allowing them to  pass on to the grave,
by either withholding through  ignorance, and for the same
cause,  ridiculing  a very valuable agent,  and  diverting the
mind of the friends and patient, from seeking help  from sources
that can furnish it.   [See late London Journal.]
  MODE OF DETECTING NEEDLES  AND OTHER METALIC
         SUBSTANCES,  THRUST INTO THE FLESH.

    It is  not unfrequent that  needles, and other metallic sub-
  stances  are  forcibly thrust into  the flesh, out  of  sight,
y sometimes their precise and positive location it is impossible
  to find  by feel or touch of the surgeon.   In these cases, a
  very simple  and easy mode is suggested  of arriving at the
  point to cut for the object.  If it be a needle, or other  iron or
  steel substance, we would take a magnet, (which will  always
  be furnished by the manufacturer of the machine  described
  in this work, through the agent, at two or three dollars expense)
  and pass one of the poles of the magnet over the place seve-
  ral times, where the  needle  is  supposed to be, and then for
  convenience  in the absence  of a delicate  compass, take  a
  common fine steel sewingr needle, and draw it several times
                                      .               ...
  across the pole of the magnet, all the time one way, and it will
  become strongly magnetized, then remove the magnet  away
  several  feel from  the needle, and tie a hair or slack twisted 
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M AG.VETO-ELECT RIC IT V
thread about the needle, and  suspend it over the place of the
suspected needle, and one end will indicate exactly by coming
to a state of rest, at the point you are to  cut  for the needle.
[See Smeer's Electro-Biologv, p. 113 ; Lond. Lan. vol. 1, 1851,
p. 308 ; Braith. Ret. No. 6, p. 155.]
MAGNETO-ELECTRIC   AUSCULTATION  OR  INDICATOR
  OF  LOCATION  OF  DISEASE  IN  INTERNAL  ORGANS
  OF THE BODY.

  We know it is asserted by many, that the  Magnetic current
from the machine,  will indicate correctly the location of dis-
ease in the internal organs, and according to our own obser-
vation, there is some reliance to  be placed in its effect on
or through diseased tissues, to establish that  fact,  as there
is more  sensibility in the diseased  part  to the passage of
the  current through it, but in our observation it is any tissue
that feels it,  and no one in particular;  also, if the current
(which always goes in straight lines where it can) goes through
a bone, it will always be  felt  more sensibly, than  if through
fleshy parts, and in our own  observation and experience, we
think  but little of  it compared with other means of diagnosis,
in locating the disease  or telling its character.  [See Chan-
ning Medical-Electricity, p. 46.]
                       CATARACT.

  It has been  repeatedly successfully practiced on the con-
tinent of Europe, to disperse Cataract in the eye by galvanism ;
we  have not attempted it, but the testimony is too abundant
and  respectable for us to doubt its  correctness.  For such a
purpose, and all surgical purposes,  a direct current from a
machine without shocks, or a  current  not interrupted, or
galvanic battery,  is  what  is  wanted  only, with  suitable
needles and conductors,  and not a  strong or powerful cur-
ent, as has often been used.  The great fault of  the English
in the use of galvanism, is  using too strong a current, which
will, in too many  cases, do hurt.  They  do not  seem  to
think, that they are sending  a stream of the  most  intense fire
through the part.   [See N. Y. Dissector, vol. 2, p. 56.] 
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                   SPINAL IRRITATION.

   Under the above heading, is generally recognized a state of
 tenderness in  a greater or less portion  of the Spinal column,
 ascertained  by firm pressure made with the thumb of the ex-
 aminer, on each side of the joints of  the spine, found most fre-
 quently in three  regions, viz :  first, at  the base of the brain
 and upper portion of the back of the neck ; second, at the mid-
 dle  of the back  opposite to the stomach, and  between  the
 lower part  of the shoulder  blades,  and thirdly; at The  junc-
 tion  of the  spiue to the  hips, or small of the  back,  and in
 these  locations it affects, more or  less, the functions of the
 nerves  and  muscles to which  they  are distributed in  these
 regions.   In  bad cases  we have  seen  the whole   length
 of the column excessively  tender, and the  nerves that go off
 also tender in  their  tracks and distribution, so that it would
 give pain to touch or press the flesh,  all  over the person.
   In all cases, as  bad as last described,  we find the functions
 of the mind, lungs,  circulation, stomach and bowels, and  in
 females the functions of the uterus much deranged, and when
 any or all of  these functions are much deranged for a con-
 siderable time, we find more or  less tenderness  in the cor-
 responding  portions  of  the spine.  We have had  a case
 before   us,  from  Suppressed  Menstruation of  about  ten
 months standing, in which pressure on the spine would  cause
 pain in the corresponding organs, as  the stomach,  bowels, or
 womb, and  portions of the flesh were so sore, (and we have
 seen the whole body much swollen or  puffed up,) and the  inter-
 nal organs, sensitive to that degree, that  the patient came well
 nigh fainting twice during the  examination, and would  have
 fainted away,  if  we had not put the  Magnetic machine in
 operation, and restored her immediately.   These are  cases
 purely of disease  of the two  nervous systems of animal and
 organic life, the first connected with sensation and motion, and
 the latter with  respiration, circulation, digestion and nutrition,
 and  the reproductive  functions, and altogether without the
 aid  and assistance of Magnetic-Electricity, we have really a
 grave  and serious disease, and a  very  troublesome one to
 cure, as there is so much  functional  derangement of internal
 organs, besides the irritation of the nerves.
   Mode of  Using the  Magnetic Machine.—We know of
 no agent  that gives the immediate and  prompt relief that is
given by Magnetic-Electricity in this complaint.  In the case 
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before us, that was so excessively tender as  to cause fainting
to the touch, in  twenty minutes time the same parts could
be handled and  felt  freely, and without  complaint.  There
is  nothing  that  can  be  compared  to  this  agent  for  the
prompt relief it  brings.  We use other means as auxiliaries,
and attend to deranged functions, &c.
  We give the patient one  pole in both hands, and apply the
other either directly to the  spine, or through our hand, the
whole length of the spine,  chest, stomach and bowels, and in
case like the last mentioned,  as in Suppressed Menstruation di-
rected, and for half an hour  every day until well.
SWELLED OR ENLARGED TONSILS AND SORE THROAT.
                     (public speakers.)

  In  a large  proportion  of decidedly  Scrofulous children
there is a strong tendency to swelled tonsils on the slightest
exposure to damp  and cold,  which affect  the  swallowing,
breathing and speaking, and are often very distressing in such
children when asleep on their back.   In those of a more strong
and sanguine  constitution and temperament, the same causes
produce  Quinsy, and  those that have a tendency to disease of
the mucous membranes, have an ulcerated sore throat, or Ca-
tarrh  in the throat; and clergymen, and other public speakers,
are very  likely to provoke this disease.
  In all its forms, save that of Quinsy, it is a chronic disease,
and almost  always  connected with  a scrofuous  diathesis  or
tendency of the patient.  We have had great reason to be sa-
tisfied with the effect of Magnetic-Electricity, iu all the forms
above mentioned, and more especially the catarrhal and ulce-
rated  condition of the throat, although wo should  use it as  an
auxiliary means, and have realized much benefit from it.
  Mode  of  Application.—Pass a current right through the
neck  and throat in  different directions, and sometimes  by
means of a wet sponge attached to a long conductor, pass one
pole into the back part of the  mouth, throat, &c., for a mo-
ment at a time to stimulate it to a healthy action.
    POISONING OR ASPHYXIA FROM CHLOROFORM.

  In the condition of loss of sensation and volition from  the
inhalation of Chloroform, it is now established beyond a ques- 
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    tion, that Magnetic-Electricity, administered in shocks, is a
    sure and perfect remedy, as yet, in every instance in which it
    has  been tried, and therefore every physician, surgeon, ac-
    coucheur and dentist, should always be prepared with an ap-
    paratus  that can be put instantly in  operation before  they
    commence its administration.
      Mode of  Applying  the  Machine.—Apply one pole to
    the  nape of the neck  or spine, and  the  other  over  the
    the  region of the chest,  heart and  stomach,  with a strong
    power,  at  first, and  after  sensation  begins  to  return,  it
•    may be diminished.   [See Braith. Ret. No. 17, p. 327 ; also a
    late  No. of the London Lancet.
       SWELLED  BREASTS OF FEMALES  AND CANCER.

      In many cases of slow and indolent swellings of the female
   breast where no malignant disease, such as cancer, has been de-
i   veloped, we have always succeeded in dispersing them by the
   application of Magnetic-Electricity to the part, with such other
   means as the case indicated.
      In Ague of the  Breast, if early applied, it will  prevent the
   formation of an abscess in the breast, and  if an abscess has
   begun to form,  it will speedily bring it to a state to  open, and
   remove  all  the hard lumps  and cakes remaining  in it.   If
   we suspected an incipient cancer forming in the breast, we
   should certainly  try  it with  hope  of success from its  well
   known powers of establishing healthy action in all parts.  We
   have not had an opportunity to try  it,  but earnestly  recom-
   mend those who have, to try it faithfully.  Mode of applying
   the Machine, is to  the part.  Iu some forms  of the  malignant
   enla ou.^ent of the breast we might, and should use Magnetism,
   as in Cancerous affections  and Fungous Haematodes.  In the
   fatty enlargements, we would use the direct and uninterrupted
   current, and the positive pole to the part.
                       TESTICLE.

  In  all the forms  of diseased and  enlarged  testicles,  that
were  not malignant in  character, we would apply the same 
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remarks that were made under the head of Swelled Breasts, as
equally applicable.  We would also include the propostion to
use it  (Magnetic-Electricity) if the disease were suspected to
be cancerous, Fungous Hematodes, or any malignant disease.
 METALLIC  OR  GALVANIC  BRACELETS, RINGS,  &c,
                       PLASTERS.

  We see very often the above articles advertised  for sale t
by  speculating empyrics, accompanied by a host of cures,"
letters and forged  certificates,  some  of which we  have
taken the trouble to prove so,  and we should not think it
worth our time to mention them at all, except to point out the
fact and the reason, why they must be powerless  for any
medical  purpose.   All   that  we  have   ever  seen,  were
either rings or belts, and may have  two metals in their con-
struction of known  galvanic power, but  their arrangement
has been such, that their ends terminated with one  another,
and if they generated ever so much power, (while they do not'
generate any, for the  simple reason, that their arrangement and
mode of application absolutely prevents them from it,)  it would ti
be in a circle around the part of the body or  limb to  which it
was applied, and would not touch it, nor would the current pass
through any part of the person ; hence it could not affect any-
thing.  We have made a galvanic chain which was very effi-
cient in conveying a  current of galvanism through parts of the
person, and on one occasion, where it was  applied for tooth-
ache, it blistered the skin in fifteen minutes, but cured the <
toothache and  the ague in the face at the same time, but in  all
these arrangements,  to be  good for anything, there  must  be
metallic  connection  between the ends  of  the ring  or belt*
applied to different parts of the person, so that the current must
pass through the person and diseased part, to be of any use or
value ; and any that are not thus airanged and  applied, are not
of the slightest consequence.
  Galvanic Plasters are also much applauded by the same
class  of people who choose to speculate  on the credulous, and
extract  money from them, without  rendering   an  equiva-
lent, under the scent of a name, and are entitled to no more,
if as  much confidence, as any of the common plasters which 
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apothecaries always keep and physicians prescribe; and one
reason why they cannot be of any more service is, because, if
they were  ever so highly charged with Magnetism or Galvan-
ism, ihey possess only one element, and are applied to but one
spot, and, of course, could not furnish a current, while if we
take a bit of sheet copper and zinc, and apply them to differ-
ent parts of the person, and connect them by a wire, we have
a current  passing  through the part,  and, of course, an influ-
ence given off.  [See Lond. Lan. vol. 11, p. 592.]
                  ELECTRO-PUNCTURE.

  This is another mode of using  Electricity, becoming very
popular among surgeons  and physicians in various diseases,
with approved success, and consists in passing .an uninter-
rupted current through, or to the part, from one pole of the
Magnetic machine or Galvanic battery to another, for  a great
variety of objects in different diseases.
  Mode of operating is fully described in the journals, and as
each surgeon may have some plan peculiar to himself, we re-
fer the reader to  those journals  for a description of  various
modes of operating.  [Lond. Lan. vol. 2, 1844, p. 469 ; vol. 8,
p. 128 :  vol. 10, p. 326 ; Braith. Ret. "No.  3, p. 65; No. 4, p.
116 ;  No. 5, p. 63  ; No. 8, p. 155  ; No.  10, art.  110.
         DISEASES OF THE SKIN IN GENERAL.

   The author would refer all persons that wish  to know the
value of this remedy (Magnetic-Electricity)  in  skin  diseases,
to the article under the head of  Salt Rheum, and we simply
remark here that there are none of the forms of skin disease,
in which we should not regard  it as highly valuable.  Ring-
worm  always gets well under its use.   We have not used it
in itch, as our patient's have not had it, and as it is an infectious
olisease, we should not expect mucii from it.
          AFTER PAINS—FALSE CONCEPTION.

  All accoucheurs and  midwives, are aware that  many  fe-
males suffer much from pains after birth, like those during 
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birth, which, in some instances, became very distressing to the
patient, tedious to bear, and often keep  the patient down and
weak.   After  a few of these  pains  have been suffered,  it
is  always  better to  give the  patient relief  and rest, for
which purpose, instead of giving opium as is usual, the phy-
sician may use Magnetic-Electricity, and it will stop them.
It  should be used as directed under the heads  of Labor and
Flowing.
  False Conceptions.—This is another condition in which
we may find this  agent  of considerable value, by introducing
the conductor into the womb, to produce expulsion of its con-
tents, and to arrest a dangerous flooding, which is often likely
to occur.   [See references under Labor, and, N. Y. Dissector,
vol. 4, p. 182.]
                       ANURISM.

  This is another formidable surgical  disease,  in which the
English and continental surgeons of Europe, have given us re-
peated examples of their success with the Galvanic agent.   It
can also be as well done by a direct current of the Magneto-
Electric machine.  When these are used for such a purpose,
they should be so constructed as to give a direct current and
without shocks or interruptions, as  an  interrupted  current
would be too painful to bear, and of no advantage in this case.
Such machines can always  be had  when desired,  from the
agent of the  machines herein described, and will be always
furnished  to  order, and whenever used, or selected by the
surgeon  for  use, a very strong one  should  not be chosen.
Needles and  all the appliances for use, will be furnished when
ordered.   [See Braith. Ret. No. 14, art. 102, art. 101 ; No. 15,
art. 130; No. 21, art. 85.]
NJEVI MATERNI,  MARKS,  MOTHER MARKS  ON CHIL-
                  DREN WHEN BORN.

  The marks here alluded to, are such as are frequently seen
on children and grown persons, and are such as they are born
with, and are called Mother Marks, and when they are not on 
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the face or hands, are of no consequence whatever as a general
>!:ing : but  when tbev  appear on the face and bands, often
form a source of great embarrassment to the subject of them.
These marks  are now the subjects of successful removal by
Electricity or Galvanism, by passing a direct uninterrupted cur-
rent through them,  and causing adhesive inflammation to take
place in the small vessels of the  surface that carry the color-
ing of the blood. A fine platina wire with a steel point is pass-
ed  through the mark or spot, and  a current  of Electricity
sent through  it which  heats  the  wire nearly  to  a red heat.
[See Lond. Lan. vol. 2, 1S52,  p. 305.]
                   CANCEROUS OREM.

  In that .condition  of  the  gums and mucus surface  of the
mouth of children,  and sometimes of adults, in which the
gums are swelled, dark colored and spongy, with blood oozing
from them, so disorganized that it will not coagulate, we know
of nothing that will so much aid the efficiency of other means
as Magnetic-Electricity, applied directly to the part  affected,
and to the whole system as  in  Scurvy and Purpura.  It is a
disease accompanying always an excessive low state of vitality,
and nothing can be more appropriate to impart vitality in con-
nection with tonics,  stimulants and  astringents.  It may be
used two or three times a day  for half an hour, and would be
better through the hand  of a healthy person.
HORSES  OVER  FED,  OR  AT  AN IMPROPER TIME,  OR
  FROM OVER DRINKING OF WATER.

  In all cases where the cause or condition is the same in ani-
mals that  it is  in the human  species,  this agent, (Magnetic-
Electricity,) is equally useful as a curative means.  In one in-
stance our own horse, that had been improperly fed with ears
of corn, when it was in the habit of eating oats  only, and
driven it twenty-five miles the same afternoon. It was  taken
so sick with  what farmers  call  the belly-ache,  or  colic,
that it would lay down in the harness the moment it  stopped,
and  before  twelve o'clock at night we had exhausted all our 
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medical resources and  were so sure the horse would die that
we made a bargain with a man to take it away in the morning
and bury it.  As we were waiting with the animal to  make
it as comfortable  as possible, although it  was so near dead
that by striking it with the lash of a whip  to  see if it  could
stir, it only moved its ear, we happened to  think  how we had
succeeded in treating colic in the human subject, and immedi-
ately  set  an  apparatus  to  work,  applied the  current  di-
directly through the stomach and bowels for an hour or more,
at intervals.   When we began,  the animal  was so  much
bloated with wind and gas in the bowels, that  the sides were
raised higher than the back, but it took the  bloat all out in two
hours, and in two hour's more, the animal stood on its feet, and
at four o'clock in the morning it took hay to eat, and in  three
days time  it was led home, twenty-five miles, and the  same
horse is still alive  and well, though this sickness  occurred iu
March, 1815.
  This agent would be Equally applicable  in all  the Strains,
Sprains, and Diseases  of horses, that are similar to  those iu
man, and should be applied in the same way. We should  use it
for Botts in horses.
HOVEN,  OR BLOWN CATTLE, FROM  EATING TOO MUCH
  FRESH CLOVER,  OR  GETTING  CHOAKED  WITH IM-
  PROPER FOOD.

  This agent would be equally as sure a remedy in the above
diseases of cattle, as in horses, and the application of  it would
be the  same.  Cattle are often destroyed  by being turned
from short, into fresh, high or  flush clover feed,  and in this
case, the  farmer  has an  undoubted  remedy  by o-ivino- the
animal half a pint of soft soap to a pint of milk, and then  usino-
this machine.
WEAK BACKS, STITCH IN THE BACK,  CRICK  IN THE
                    BACK OR  SIDE.

  Many  persons  of both sexes,  but more  particularly  fe-
males, suffer much from what they call weak backs.  As a gene-
ral thing they are connected with some other disease, but not
always so, and whether they are or not, we have always been 
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able to cure them readily, with nothing but Magnetic-Electri-
city.  Of  course the  practitioner should be satisfied  of the
cause, as  it would vary  his directions  much in the  use of
means, as the application would  be quite different if it was
from a Strain, or Over Lifting, or from Falling of the Womb,
in the female, or over excited genital organs in the male.   In
either case it is a remedy, tuf in  Falling of the  Womb it
should be  applied  as directed under that head, and if from
over  excited  genitals in the male, it should be applied as di-
rected under  Masturbation, and if from a strain, it should be
applied by having the patient hold one pole in his hands, and
have the other applied directly to  the weak part.
   In Stitch, or Crick in  the back or side, it  will always cure
with two or.three applications, and should be applied directly
to the part.  Let the patient hold one pole in both hands, and
apply the  other directly to the lame part, either by putting the
pQle to it, or through the hand of the operator.
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, AND CATARRH OF THE LUNGS.

  Although the author does not regard  the two conditions
mentioned  in this  heading  as precisely the same, yet  the
actual state  of things so nearly  alike,  that  the  Magnetic
treatment would be the same, in the absence of any inflamma-
tory symptoms, that we have  thought proper to place them to-
gether, and we have always  succeeded in curing them in the
absence  of any considerable organic  lesion.  In Catarrh  of
the  mucus membrane of the  Lungs, or any other Mucus
surface, we hardly recognize  any other sure  cure,  though we
always administer some of the gum resins, as tincture guaiac or
some balsam, arid perhaps some form of anodyne in conjunc-
tion, with a view of  hastening  the  cure.   We  apply  the
machine, the  patient  holding one pole, and put the  other di-
rectly  over  the  chest,  or through  the hand to the  chest
every day.   [See  Channing.]
                       CALLOUSES.
  From whatever causes Callouses may occur, we have always
succeeded in removing them, by applying the current directly
to them, through  both poles in all directions, once every day
from fifteen to thirty minutes, until removed. 
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             RHEUMATIC  SWELLED JOINTS.

  We often see severe consequences following Rheumatic and
Bilious fevers to the joints and limbs of patients, (and in our
observation badly treated cases, or it would not follow in any
of them)  causing  severe swellings,  with  and  without ab-
scesses ; and in rheumatic patients, it attacks the joints, all of
which are  completely under the control of Magnetic-Electri-
city, promptly applied.  When the pain and soreness are very
severe, we apply it to the limb or joint through our hand, the
patient holding one pole and we the other.  In this case, and
all rheumatic  diseases, we never withhold the agent because
there is fever or inflammation present,  and we always obtain
immediate relief for the patient.   Use it once  or  twice a day
from fifteen to thirty minutes at a time.
PLEURISY, DISEASE OF THE BLOOD, IMPERFECT DIS-
              TRIBUTION OF  THE BLOOD.

  There can be no doubt from  what we know of Ma</;;etic-
Electricity, that  its action in the earliest  stage  of Pleurisy
would  be decidedly favorable, and  arrest it  at once;  but in
our opinion, after inflammation had  fully set in, and reaction
fully established, we should not use it until  after bleedirif had
been practiced and perhaps a full dose  of opium given,  and
then we should expect to put an  immediate end to it.   Dr.
Channing speaks favorably of its use in this disease.  In what
is called Disease of the  Blood, he also  recommends its use.
We can readily understand why it should be valuable  in that
condition.  As this agent promotes the  digestion  and  secre-
tions, and  vitalizes the whole system, it is easy to see that
when digestion, secretion and  circulation are  well  perform-
ed,  as  it is through these sources  the  blood becomes  im-
pure, that the blood should  be made more healthful,  as the
source of it is more pure.
  In unequal distribution and circulation of the blood, from the
absence of an equalized  nervous power, there is, perhaps, no
agent that will more certainly equalize it, and at the same time
equalize the circulation of the blood.
  The  Machine for Pleurisy should be used, by sending a
current of as much uower  as  can well be borne from the 
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spine directly to and over the the  diseased  and painful side,
and continued until the pain ceases and the patient perspires
freely.  For diseased and  imperfectly distributed blood, it
Bhould be used generally over the whole body, as in  Scurvy
and other general diseases. [See Channing on Medr Electricity.]
         DYSPNCEA OR DIFFICULT BREATHING.

  In all cases of this complaint unaccompanied by any organic
disease, we have relieved them at once.  Dr. Channing says :
" Difficult Respiration, from every  source, excepting organic
lesion, may be treated by this agent with prospect of success."
The same rules of application would be observed as in Asthma.
[See Channing, p. 123.]
        OPACITY OF THE CORNEA AND ALBUGO.

  Dr.C. U. Siglio, of Corfu,  [See Revue. Med. March, 1844,]
reports cases of this kind treated successfully with this agent.
The cases are detailed in the journal referred to, and a larger
statement of the cases can be found in Dr. Channing's work
on this subject, and it is said  to have dispersed the opacity of
the eye altogether.  For this purpose, machines giving a direct
uninterrupted current, or a galvanic battery should be used.
Place the negative pole in the mouth, and the positive on the
eyelid, the current should not be very strong, and may be con-
tinued from ten minutes to half an hour, repeated  every day.
     GENERAL  DEBILITY, OR ATONIC  CONDITIONS.

  There is no condition of General Debility, whether of the
who'e system, or any particular part,  function, or  organ,  in
which Magnetic-Electricity  is not decidedly indicated, to co-
operate with or supply vitality.  Its operation is always in the
direction  of health, in the most opposite affections.   This is
explained by the fact that its operation is to quicken the  vital
powers and natural functions of' the part to which it is applied. 
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ATROPHY, OR WASTING OF  A PART OR LIMB,  PERISH-
                           ING.

  In  the  wasting of an  organ by  deficient nutrition, either
from want of nervous supply, or of  vitality in  the tissue, the
daily use of this agent is indicated, and  we have always found
the result favorable ; and, in one instance of a paralized limb
it increased two and a half inches in circumference by measure,
and its powers were correspondingly increased.  We have in
another place spoken of its  use in Hypertropha or  enlarged
part, the philosophy of this apparent  diversity of its action and
utility, for which  we would  particularly recommend it, in en-
larged liver and  other internal visera, is to be explained on
the principle, that it regulates as well as supplies vitality when
deficient,  and restores balance  between sets of organs,  or the
functions  between different sets of  organs, as Secretion and
Absorption, and hence produce a healthy  balance of action,
and when Secretion or Nutrition is too rapid for the action of
the absorbents, the enlargement is removed, and in an oppo-
site way in an  opposite state, and all  in accordance with its
laws of action.   The aji>plication of  the machine is general, as
in Scurvy and Purpura in the debility of the system, and to the
part where located, and  Magnetic-Electricity  is always best.
[See Channing, pp. 150, 47, 4S, 49, 50.]
ALTERATIVE ACTION,  PROMOTE SECRETIONS,  SEDA-
  TIVE  ACTION, PROMOTION  OF NUTRITION, PROMO-
  TION  OF  ABSORPTION,  CAPILLARY  CIRCULATION,
  PERSPIRATION PROMOTED

  Whenever there was evident torpor of any of the functions
of organs we have found  the use of Magnetic-Electricity to
stimulate them promptly to  action, and hence it is evidently a
promoter of secretion when deficient in  any organ.  If the
torpor he general in all the  secreting organs of the system, it
will -stimuhit.i them, and hence is an alterative agent.   If any
of the nerves  be  morbidly sensitive and  painful,  it allays
the iiritability and pain in  all  cases where we have used it, if
the Magnetic powers are properly developed in the machine,
and  if they are not, it is  proof positive that, that  particular
machine  is either not fit for  use, or is impi ojerly used. 
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  It is an invariable promoter of digestion, and  assists all the
functions of nutrition.  When the absorbent vessels have lost
their energy of action, it supplies the necessary  activity  and
promotes absorption.   In almost all cases where perspiration
is absent, it has produced it, and we have regarded the ap-
pearance of it, as an evidence  that the machine had been used
enough for that one time.  In all the above  cases and condi-
tions, the physician  is, and  ought to be the proper judge as
to the use of the machine, whether general or local, accord-
ing as the disease itself is general or local.   The verifica-
tion of  all the above statements will be found  whenever
tested, and the detail of application should  be left  to  the
judgment of  the physician,   and if  he  has  not common
sense and judgment  enough to direct him in it, he had much
better change his business, as both he  and his employers may
be assured, that he is not fit to  have the charge of their health.
[See Channing, on the application of Medical-Electricity, pp.
48, 49, 50, 51.
                SCROFULA  IN GENERAL.

   Under this head, according to our views, there is a long list of
diseases known to the profession, by other and various names,
which are as purely, scrofulous as those described by au-
thors, and  to save a confusion of ideas we shall  adopt the
usual names by which  they are  described in books,  by authors
on medicine, and as it would  require a  large volume to give
and  illustrate our views on  this  subject, and  make them as
clear to others  as to  ourself,  we  must reserve  them for
another time  and  place,  and  we  believe,  when  they  and
the practical  deductions  that follow are fully understood, as a
matter of course,  it will be  found that  Scrofula,  under any
and  all forms in which we find it, both simple and combined
with other disease, will be as  certainly and  easily  under the
control  of appropriate means, as the most simple disease we
have to contend with.  One of the greatest errors of  the day,
in the profession, we conceive, (in the majority of  those who
practice and teach the healing art.) is, in their retaining nearly
the same, only modified,  practice  in Chronic and Scrofulous
disease that they do in Acute, under the various names  they
are pleased to give them, and we shall retain them to save con- 
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fusion, though we  would  not,  by any means, be  under-
stood to retain the practice in detail, in  either Scrofulous or
Chronic  diseases generally, nor will it be possible for us, in
any degree, to shadow forth our detail of treatment here, fur-
ther than the use  and application  of  Magnetic-Electricity in
all forms of disease partaking of a Scrofulous character in any
degree.   We  assume  that there  is  no  remedy  that  will
do as much for any Scrofulous condition as this alone,  (not
that it is  a specific for it, or for any disease,) nor that it  will
remove  a Scrofulous tendency,  condition or diathesis as cer-
tain  as this agent;  nor  can or will this agent  do as much
alone, as when combined with other suitable and appropriate
medication, applied  according  to the  condition of  each case
presented.  Therefore we combine both, when  needed, and
although we never had any reason to complain of our success
in this class of disease before  we  used this remedy,  as com-
pared with others, nor did our employers complain of it, as is
evidenced by the fact, that for years before we used this agent,
we  were .much employed in the treatment of Chronic  and
Scrofulous affections to  a greater degree than  any  one we
knew among our cotemporarics and co-laborers for fifty miles
around us, which was achieved alone by our success  in that
department, nor do  we consider  it a violation  of modesty to
say what  we know, and have sufficient means  to  prove its
truth, and will be  always  happy  to show to  the  profes-
sion the results of  the practice, as well as detail,  and in being
the agent of bringing relief and cure to such as .are afflicted with
either Chronic or Scrofulous disease, that is susceptible  of cure;
but we do earnestly contend that they  are all  susceptible
of cure in their early stages, if properly treated.   We ought,
probably, to state here, that all Scrofulous disease is chronic or
slow in character, but not all chronic disease is scrofulous at
first, though there is no doubt that  protracted chronic disease
will cause, after a  time, many of  the conditions that  exist in
scrofula,  and therefore require a similar principle in treatment.
  The foregoing remarks apply to all forms of disease of a
Scrofulous character, and we  say  that  there  is no form of
Scrofulous disease that will not  be benefitted by  Magnetic-
Electricity alone, and to a much greater degree when com-
bined with other suitable remedies,  than with the other medi-
cal  remedies without medical Magnetism, and  we do most
positively assert, that, many cases of Scrofulous  disease may
be cured by combining  both, by  physicians  that  well  tin- 
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derstand both  of them in their proper  application,  which
otherwise must necessarily be lost, if both  are not understood
and intelligently applied in each case uo ikcj uccia.
  We have  dwelt thus at length upon this point of  Medictil
Electricity in Scrofula, because there is not a more important
class  of disease than this, nor one that destroys more human
life and happiness, and among  the victims  to which, so much
of intellect  and virtue is  lost to  society and the world,
nor a class of  disease about which so little is well under-
stood, to lead  to a successful  practice by those who justly
profess and practice the healing art.
       PHTHISIS PULMONALIS,  OR  CONSUMPTION.

  This is a grave form of Scrofulous affection of the lungs
which, perhaps, numbers more victims than any other form of
Scrofula, in the North American portion of the continent, than
in any other civilized portion of the globe of the same extent,
and when early recognized, as it always may be by intelligent
observers, if the patients be so circumstanced in life, pecuniarily,
as to enable them  to command their time, and dispose of
themselves, as the circumstances of their particular case may
require, it may always  be arrested  in its progress, and the pa-
tients cured by a course  of treatment changing  the  whole
tendencies of the constitution.
  This can be much more  certainly done in young persons
and those under middle age ; and in children it can always be
averted, and good constitutions given in  their  place  with  a
proper course of management.  We are stating no more than
we  know on this point, from experience in hundreds of cases,
nor any more than may be always done, with proper and cor-
rect management, before the vital  and rallying forces of the
physical system are too much exhausted, or the vital organs too
much destroyed to be capable of being healed ; and we  can
find hundreds of persons that would state most positively that
we  had cured  cases that were called  Consumption in them-
selves or friends, while the  facts are that  we simply put their
vital and physical forces in a way to act, with such a degree of
energy, that their systems  were able to  resist its further en-
croachment, and they got  well themselves, a  point  easy to
achieve in  the early stage of disease, when  circumstances 
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favor if we  only know how to  help the  patient, and not to
hinder them in the efforts of nature in a restorative process.
  We believe that  no well informed physician will  dispute
but  that debUitv  is one  main  feature  in consumption, and
among the first observed, irregular circulation  of blood, and
undue quantities.in particular localities, imperfect nutrition of
the body> and irregular beat of the person ;  each of the pre-
vious conditions  frequently exist, in a measure, in some in-
stances, before the patients call themselves sick, and, as a con-
sequence, much irritability and irregular nervous action exists,
varied by the habit and tendencies of the individual and tem-
perament.
  We are aware  that, in most  instances of afore-mentioned
disease,  (Consumption,) there  is cough  present,  which  is
distressing to the   patient  and  alarming  to  the  friends,
and they call on the doctor  for a  cough  medicine, and
they  do just as we  used  to  do until  we  learned  better,
rack our brains  for a cough  medicine  to  cure the  cough,
and almost certainly, if  the patient  be  irritable  and ner-
vous, with  a little  reaction   of a  febrile  character, our
cough agents will  be selected from  a  class of  remedies
that will  debilitate  the patient  more,  and  derange the
function of nutrition, and a set of counter  irritants such  as
blisters and seatons that will make  them more irritable, and
the patient is hurried along on  the  downward road, and
if they be very Scrofulous in thefr tendencies and nervous in
their temperament, such is  surely to be the result from such
practice.  In  our judgment, the common-sense course would
be, to pay but little attention to  the cough, as it is a mere irri-
tation with some congestion in many  cases, and if we first
equalize the circulation, irritation will be  less aud respiration
more free;  the  cough  will leave, digestion and  nutrition
be  better  performed, and   the patient  with  a little help
from Magnetic-Electricity and  tonics  daily  applied, such  as
are alterative tonics, get well, and if followed up by proper
physical training to develope  the chest  aud muscles  of the
whole system and expand the lungs  to enable them to circu-
late much blood well oxidized,  the patient is cured so that he
will remain cured.  In a great proportion of young persons the
tendency to consumption and Scrofula may he entirely destroy-
ed and exchanged for vigorous health.   We cannot here enter
into any detail of means further than to describe the manner
of use of Magnetic-Electricity, which is among the most impor- 
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tant of any, and \n many instances, all else will avail nothing
without it.   The above remarks  are  applicable to all forms
of Scrofulous  disease and tendencies, whatever may be  the
name it is known or described by, and the general principle of
treatment and management will hold equally good, though the
detail of treatment may be varied, and  in  mentioning  other
names and forms of disease, that come under this general head
of Scrofula, we shall do little more than to mention them with
the mode of using Magnetic-Electricity, as a principal means
in aid of the cure.
   The  Mode of  Using the  Machine, adopted in cases of
this  kind,  has been to give the patient  one  pole  in both
his hands, we  take the  other covered with a wet sponge,  and
pass it from the nape of the neck down the whole length of
the spine, under as much power of the machine as can be well
borne for five or ten minutes, then over the  chest, stomach
and bowels for about  the  same time,  then take the same
pole in our hand and  pass our other hand over the same
regions with pretty good friction until the surface be warm
and  dry, and then, for  a  few  minutes, either   set  the
feet in  a  warm  bath with  one  pole  in  it, or take  the
feet in our hand and pass the current the whole length of the
body in that way.  This operation should be performed every
day, and there may be cases that would require it twice a day.
                  GENERAL REMARKS.

  We have used  this agent, in some instances, in the last
stages of  Consumption, at a period  when the patient was
nearly gone, tubercles extensively  ulcerated and being dis-
charged, and when we had told the patient there was no hope
of recovery, for the purpose of soothing and supporting the
nervous energies,  quieting the  nervous restlessness and ex-
haustion which  always prevails more or less, with  great
comfort to the patient, procuring good rest  and  sleep, and
giving better tone to  the  stomach and better relish to food
under a formerly  capricious appetite, always telling the pa-
tient,  that it could only add to  his comfort while remaining,
but they would insist on keeping it up, and as they expressed
themselves it made them  feel so quiet, rested and  supported.
  Under the above  condition we have  used it at evening 
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before the usual period to sleep, so as to leave them to
go  to sleep  for  the night, and  have  used it also  in  the
morning or  fore-part  of the  day.  In this  case  we  use  it
through the  hand applied  to the  person  of the patient, and
over  the  same  regions  of the body described  under  the
head  of Consumption.  If the patient  be a female we get
a female  assistant,  and  while one  person  with  a pole in
one hand, takes in their other hand both the patient's hands, the
other person with a pole in one hand passes their other hand
moistened  over  the spine the  whole  length,  over  the  chest,
stomach, bowels and limbs,  from fifteen to thirty minutes.
  The above remarks and mode of application are equally ap-
plicable to a state of extreme exhaustion from any  other kind
of disease to procure support  and ease,  and consequently
comfort to the patient.
SCROFULOUS  DISEASES   OF  THE  KNEE JOINT, HIP
  JOINT, WHITE SWELLINGS OF THE JOINTS AND LIMBS,
  ABSCESSES, MORBUS COXARIUS, &c, &c.

  All of the above named diseased conditions are  entirely, or
almost purely Scrofulous in character, and, perhaps, we might
say always, excepting those that follow  after some injury or
violence done to the part in persons of Scrofulous, tendencies,
yet not so strongly as that, but for the  injury received, they
would not have been thus affected.
  The more purely Scrofulous the patient, the more slow and
insidious will be the approach and attack of the complaint, and
less likely to attract the  attention of the physician, or patient,
until it has advanced to  a stage and degree of grave impor-
tance.
  The less Scrofulous tendency about the patient, and more
nervous irritability, the more  acute and rapid will be its onset
and advance, and the treatment necessarily  needs modifying
accordingly.
  It is entirely impossible, consistent with the limits assigned
to this publication, to enter into any detail  of theory, or the
medical treatment of the above diseases, beyond what we have
said under the general head of  Scrofula, and the  same prin-
ciples hold good in these cases, of medicine and management, 
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save what modifications result from tissues involved in disease,
which all intelligent practitioners of medicine will readily re-
cognize.  It may be well to remark that those persons who are
most  easily affected by  Magnetic influences, will be  much
more  readily  under the  influence  and  control of Magnetic-
Electricity in their diseased conditions.
  In Scrofulous  Disease of-the knee  joint we  can distin-
guish no difference in the principle of disease or the treatment
of Scrofula, whether it be in one joint or another, as the knee,
ankle or hip ;  and since we have used  Magnetic-Electricity,
(about nine years) we have always succeeded in curing  every
case,  that was not otherwise complicated with  other disease
putting the matter  of restoration out of the question, with
less  time and trouble, and more  certainty of success  in ex-
treme and doubtful cases, than with any other mode or practice.
  We can only  enumerate some of the  medical agents  used
in conjunction with Magnetism, under all forms of Scrofula,
viz :  Iodide of Manganese, Iodide of Iron  and Ioduretted
Chloride of Gold, Carbonate  of Manganese, Phosphate  of
Manganese, Sulphate of Manganese and Arsenic, with some
vegetable  and  alterative  tonics, stimulating  alterative  oint-
ments, and  if there be much irritability, we  use Anodynes,
and  the success  attending these  means  have often  aston-
ished us, as to the time required to cure, and the certainty of
it, in extreme and, under other treatment,  hopeless cases.
  We  have often  witnessed  the treatment  of these  cases
in the various  hospitals   and  public places  of  charity  in
this  city, and  seen limb  after limb cut off and  cast away,
•as being the la3t resort of  the  healing art, until the  observa-
tion became so  painful and  disgusting to our senses, that wc
abandoned  visiting them ; and  these amputations were per-
formed too, on cases that our knowledge and experience told
us', we had cured  many that were more hopeless  We  know
we have repeatedly  done it.    We would  not be under
stood to underrate, or lack a proper appreciation of  surgi-
cal skill, but we  shall ever contend that the  true surgeon,
whose skill and  advice is  valuable, will  ever be much  more
proud  of  the  cures  he  has   affected  without  cutting off
diseased limbs and parts,  and leaving his patient  mutila-
ted, crippled and deformed for life ; and he will never  speak
of operations  in surgery  with  anything but a feeling  of
humility and regret, that his science in healing could  not pre-
vent so painful a necessity.    The public have good cause to be 
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afraid and jealous of the man who boasts  of, and is ambitious
of his operations in surgery, for such  men always leave their
mark behind them, in people mutilated and deprived of their
limbs.  An operation is by no means to be proud of, because it
is a mere mechanical affair, and any smart man can be taken
from a multitude of mechanics, and if he has the will and fixed
purpose to do it, can learn in a day's  time to operate as suc-
cessfully in amputating, as the most boastful  surgeon of the
country, though not quite as dexterously, nor in as short a time,
as it is, in fact, a  mere mechanical  art;  while to cure without
cutting, is the perfection of the science.
  Mode of Using the  Machine  in  the above cases.—We
have used  it both  local and general : general, by putting
one pole in the patient's  hand and carrying the other over
the  spine,  chest, stomach  and abdomen, and to the  affect-
ed part, sometimes putting both poles to and about the affected
part, and always closing the operation  by passing the current
through our hand.   We continue the operation from twenty-
five to thirty minutes and repeat it each day, or oftener if  the
case require it.
  SCROFULOUS ULCERATION IN THE LYMPHATIC GLANDS
    ABOUT THE NECK, CALLED BY  SOME KING'S EVIL. "

    The above named disease is nothing but one of the forms of
  pure Scrofula, seated in the Lymphatic Glands about the neck
  and throat, and may affect the Lymphatic vessels and gangalia
  of any other part, and frequently does, forming  Abscesses,
  cold or indolent Swellings, White Swellings, as they are fre-
  quently termed, in any part of the body.
    The principle of treatment in these cases is the same as any
  form of Scrofula, and the remedies the same in principle.  Mag-?
;  netic:Electricity will be found a most efficient  aid, conjoined
I  with other means.
i    Mode  of Using the Machine should be general and local.
  The current should be passed  through the whole system to
  give energy and  tone, and to the part to  give healthy and
  vigorous  action.  In persons affected in this way, an advantage
  is obtained by  passing  the current through  two  healthy
  persons. 
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SCROFULOUS OPTHALMIA,OR SCROFULOUS SORE EYES.

  The worst cases of this form of sore eyes as readily yield to
this mode of treatment, as any form  of Scrofulous disease.
We have never had a case, alone or combined with other
affections, but that  were readily  removed,  and disappeared
entirely as the patient's general health was restored.
  Mode of Applying the Machine is, in this case, general
and local, as above stated, and in all forms of Scrofula ; finish-
ing the operation by its local application  to the  part mainly
affected, and through the hand to the eye.
     SCROFULOUS  AFFECTIONS OF THE MUSCLES.

  In all cases  where the muscles are feebly developed, soft
and flabby, it is owing to Scrofula in the system, and as it is
never noticed by the family or physician, until it shows itself
in the form of  spinal curvature or distortion, we shall  say no
more of it here, than to remark that it can be entirely reme-
died, and the patient given a good vigorous muscle by proper
management and treatment of medicine, exercise, and Magne-
tic-Electricity.  The application of the latter would be gene-
ral, and we shall conclude what else need be said when speak-
ing of curvature.
SCROFULA AFFECTING THE BONES, OR CARIES OF THE
                         BONES.

  This is a disease that may affect any bone in the body, but
most commonly the long bones of the limbs and short bones of
the  spine, is connected with While Swellings, and is alluded
to under former  heads spoken of, and will be more remarked
of under Curvature  of the Spine.  The principal of treat-
ment is the same, so far as Magnetic-Electricity is applied, as
in other cases last mentioned.
GROWTH AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN.

  This subject should occupy the attention of the wisest heads
as none has been so seriously neglected, or  so little under- 
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stood ; and when we consider that the greatest by far of the
6um of human happiness depends upon our physical perfec-
tion, the magnitude of its importance  forcibly appears.  We
claim that it is a subject that should be properly understood by
the people at large, who are so vitally interested  in its truths.
  It may be  presumption in us, (when from the necessary
limits of this  work, we can only glance at it) to touch  on so
momentous a subject;  yet, as there are  some things coming
before the physician daily, in which (if he properly understands
the subject) a few words of advice may produce much happi-
ness and prevent inevitable misery, therefore we mention  a
few of them.
  Far too few  of us, that are called  physicians, make it  a
point to study attentively and practically  the laws of nature
to which we must all bow in submission, as we can neither re-
peal them, nor avert the consequences of their infringement;
therefore we should study to  harmonize our conditions with
those laws, given in infinite wisdom for our happiness.
  To illustrate this,' it is apparent to the most ordinary mind,
that a watch cannot give correct time, unless  each part is per-
fect in itself, as the loss of a single cog from one  of the wheels
will destroy the action of all the rest, however perfect they
may be ;  and the  parts  may be all perfect, as single parts
by  themselves, yet if they do not harmonize in size,  if any
one part is not in exact proportion with the dimensions  of all
the  other parts, it will cause discord  and throw the  whole
machine into confusion.
  Hence  it is  with  man  in his  organic,  mechanical  and
animal  arrangement,  equally essential that all  parts  are
in due proportion  to  all other parts, as  well  as perfect in
themselves, or we cannot  have  health,  strength .and har-
mony in their action, for wc have in man (an animal  ma-
chine) important organs,  and  sets of organs or instruments,
that belong to the human machine, and are essential to its
existence.
  Among  these organs  may  be  mentioned, first, the lungs ;
second, the heart; third, the stomach and digestive apparatus ;
fourth, tho brain and nervous system  of animal life, and the
nervous  system of organic or vegetable  life,  by  means of
which, circulation of the  blood, digestion of  the food, respira-
tion, absorption  and nutrition, are all carried on in our sleep,
as well  as when awake, and independent of our will or choice,
and the perfection and strength,  or energy of these  functions 
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harmoniously performed in due balance of power, constitutes
the perfection  of health of body and mind,  and without such
balance, harmony  of  action  and  strength of  proportion,
nothing can be done perfectly.
   The object of this article is to point out some of these phy-
sical defects, their causes  and  origin, but mainly  to  hint at a
remedy for them, and make the practical remarks in the short-
est possibly space.
   The  two  main sources of  physical defects  are heriditary
taints, and the subsequent management, or the want of proper
care of children, up to  the age of from twenty to  thirty years,
depending entirely upon circumstances connected with each
individual person, and  their habits of life.
   Those causes that are hereditary, are such as are transmis-
sable from parent to offspring, and those  that  will engage
our particular attention, is the  Scrofulous  taint,  or  Diathe-
sis, which must inevitably entail misery, wretchedness, and un-
certainty of life upon the child of Scrofulous parents, whether
it exist in father or mother.   Opinion is divided  on the point
of whether  father  or  mother is the more certain to transmit
it; both do transmit it, and the  only certain remedy against the
transmission of hereditary Scrofula is, for such persons as have
it marked strongly  on  them, never to marry ; the  second best
mode is, for any Scrofulous  person never to marry another,
that  is  in any degree like themselves, in Diathesis, color of
skin or hair, or physical formation.  Syphilitic taints always
give  origin to  tainted constitutions in children, which are both
Scrofulous and  Syphilitic, and are much worse than Scrofula
 alone.                                              .
   A Rheumatic Diathesis or  tendency is also transmissable,
but it is of much less serious consequence.   Gout is also trans-
 ferable  to offspring.
   A tendency to  Insanity in  families, where it has often oc-
 curred, is a constitutional taint  of brain coformation, and should
 be avoided.   As it is  not our purpose to say more upon this
 subject, than  to drop  some curative, prophylactic and reme-
 dial remarks,  we shall proceed to offer  some means of cure
 and  prevention, and leave the subject for another  volume,
 where  it will be treated more  fully.
   Of the kinds of physical defects in our formations, we will
 remark, first, that too large a  brain may be  given us, and we
 have precocity of intellect, and if  accompanied by active tem-
 perament, as it is almost  always, we see a child manifesting a 
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mind beyond its years, and a mucular system small and attenu-
ated, soft and flacid to the feel, muscles neither plump or firm,
flesh soft, and  lacking that rudy flesh  color which is obvious
in children, well formed.   Most of these cases  have blue or
grey eyes, fine flaxen hair, pale  and  thin face; yet some
strongly marked cases of this  kind have  a  hazle or nearly
black eye, auburn, dark brown, and nearly  black hair, always
fine and silk like, with sometimes quite a fair skin, but maybe
brunette, great activity of motion, small  bones, small  mus-
cles, small chest and precarious appetites, small neck generally
rather long, and the base and back part of  the brain over the
back of the neck small and narrow ; with  this  latter state is
always found a small  flat chest, and  narrow drooping shoul-
ders, flat stomach, all  the outlines of the  person angular and
sharp, sore throats and swelled or enlarged tonsils, and the
whole frame exhibiting more of its bony arrangement, than is
consistent with well balanced physical  forces.   Children are
generally born with these defects,  and  we mention them with
a view, first,  of preventing them ; secondly,  when  they  do
exist, of pointing out the means of remedying them.  All
children that are Rickety, are strongly  marked cases of Scro-
fula.  All that have enlarged bowels and very large appetites,
accompanied with paleness of the countenance, and are thin in
flesh, are also laboring under Scrofula.   We have seen them
frequently  in the public charities, where many of this class
are collected  together, kept  constantly on the stool with a
large piece of brown bread in  their hand from morning until
night, with Diarhcea and  Piles, a practice  when  allowed to
exist in any place except where the most benighted ignorance
reigns, most barbarous indeed, and inhuman toward the child,
the very means of  perpetuating its miserable condition.  All
children that have bowed or bent  limbs, and enlarged wrists
and ankle joints are Scrofulous. Almost all cases where there
are sores and  eruptions  of long  standing, are  children of a
Scrofulous Diathesis.   All children that have pale and puffy,
or apparently bloated or swelled lips  and eyelids, those  that
have a tolerably full face,  a thin or emaciated body or person,
are of the  same class ; those  that  are born apparently well,
and yet do not thrive  and grow well, are  of the same class ;
all of these conditions are  more or  less Scrofulous, eithei
from hereditary taint, or from improper  management after
birth.
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proportioned  brain, with  an  equally  good  proportion  of
it in the base of the  brain and back of the head, good broad
deep chest, the whole  person plump, and flesh and  muscles
firm and good, and not a fastidious appetite, and in these con-
ditions there is never  Scrofula except from bad or improper
management after birth.
   The means of preventing these  unfortunate consequences
to  offspring are, for  persons  of Scrofulous  habit  not to
marry, or it  they do,  be  sure  not to marry those tainted in
 constitution similar to themselves.
   We are aware that advice  on marriage, may be consid-
ered  gratuitous, but  we cannot  be faithful to  the subject
without  mentioning it, as we  are among a great number of
persons who have studied the physical laws on the subject of
reproduction of the species,  and have arrived at the conclusion
that no one has  a right, knowingly, to perpetuate sickness and
misery  in the  world,  without  incurring  responsibility on
account  of it, nor a right  to charge upon what  they call the
will of, or a dispensation of Providence, what is clearly owino-
to their own  infractions of natural and physical laws; for that
Scrofula will reproduce itself, is as certain  as if you cast  a
stone into the air, it will come down again.  Cous7ns  and Se-
cond Cousins should never  marry.
   Children that are well and perfect when born, and of sound
parents,  may have a scrofulous habit produced in them in a
variety of ways ;  and  among these  may be  mentioned, too
much confinement in  hot and badly aired rooms, improper
diet and  at  irregular times,  too  much  confectionary  and
pastry, sweets always having a tendency to injure the appetite
and do not give strength or even sustain life ; too much and too
little clothing, damp basements for nurseries ; taxing the mind
too much, with not sufficient exercise  of body and muscles in
the open and fresh air; confining children in hot and badly
ventilated'school  rooms,  where  there  are from two to four
or five hundred in a room, as in the Ward schools  in this city;
these causes  combined, and  operating  at  the  same  timej
will, as  a general thing, produce  feebleness of  both body
and mind,  and  a  Scrofulous tendency in  the  most  per-
fect, child that ever .was  born; and  it is always some one
or  all  of these nurseries of disease, that  destroy one  half
nearly of the children  born in this city before  they are seven
years old, and the balance of more than the half, before  they
are twenty-five years old, and  of  those that aie left, we think 
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it will be difficult to find more than two out of ten, that have
not an imperfection of physical health of some kind, to transmit
to the generation that  shall follow them, to keep  the stock of
enfeebled and wrecked bodies and minds perpetuated through
all time.
  The causes of these wretched conditions, in children, having
been in some measure pointed out, we should fail in our pur-
pose if we do not indicate some means of avoiding the conse-
quences  of past errors.  As we have  said, avoid marrying
and re-producing it; secondly, when it  does exist, to  obviate
its effects and consequences  as much as possible, is the next
point to be gained; to do this, let the nursery be a large, airy
room, not even on a ground  floor, well ventilated, and never
warmer in cold weather than from sixty-five to seventy degrees
of the thermometer,   good  nourishing  food and at  proper
times,  plenty of friction to  the surface of  the body, and as
soon as the child can run and  use its limbs, let it be encouraged
to do so,  and at all times in suitable weather, to walk and ride ;
do not confine them, if able to go out, in  school-rooms and the
house, it  is of no consequence if they do not more than learn
to read  before  they are from eight to  ten  years old.  Give
them a room, in bad weather, especially devoted to play, in
which they can have all kinds of gymnastic exercises in  ac-
cordance with  their size  and ability; have them go through
from three to ten minutes every day,  seeing that things are so
arranged that they cannot hurt  themselves, and  in this way
you can develope the physical forces.  Of  course under the
above directions the children are supposed not to be sick, and
in all cases where children are delicate and feeble, the fore-
going  directions combined with the daily  use of Magnetic-
Electricity, to impart  vitality to  the  whole system, promote
digestion and circulation of the blood  with vigor, give  the
elements of strength.  Sometimes these measures may need
some aid from  strengthening medicine given to the  child,
which, if judiciously advised, will always help ; far, too often,
the  medical  means are  misjudged, and  something  given
that would more likely interfere with health and vigor from
mistaken notions and  conceptions of what is required, and
 prescribing for names and symptoms, rather than the absolute
 condition upon general principles.  We will not venture to
 say that all children of Scrofulous tendencies can  surely have
 them removed,  and  good constitutions  given iu  their  place,
 but we think it can always be done, while it is still latent, and 
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the vital organs and powers not yet seriously affected.  In the
latter cases,  we have succeeded  whenever we  have had  a
chance, and good physical powers have been given  in their
stead, as will be  seen in the cuts and cases representing Spinal
Curvature and Deformities, which are all truthful demonstra-
tions of the above principles ; and can be repeated as often as
the parents and  friends of patients  require it done in their
children, if they give us a chance, and comply with the requi-
sitions necessary to secure such a result.
   For these purposes our measures consist of three particu-
lars, Medication which generally is little, and always strength-
ening  and alterative ;  Exercises of all kinds, and especially
those that  are calculated  to  develope  weak  parts,  and  the
daily use   of  Magnetic-Electricity,  and  this last mentioned
agent is as important as any, for the first two will not succeed
in all cases without the latter, nor the latter without both the
first, where there is  much to be done ; and we know that in
thousands  of  cases, and perhaps all  cases of latent Scrofula,
where, as  yet, no particular  organ or set of organs are espe-
cially involved,  the daily use  of Magnetic-Electricity would
prevent its development, (as in a case tending to Curvature,
White  Swellings, Enlarged  Glands,  &c.,) by giving to  the
patient appetite, vigor and vitality, good circulation, digestion,
and a vigorous  performance of functions by means of which
strong  health is secured.  All these  results are the more
certain when  early applied,  and the  time  required to bring
them about much less.
   We would  particularly draw the attention of the reader to
cuts of cases  represented on the following pages resulting
from our treatment of Spinal Curvature and Deformities in
which the  physical changes in  the  person of the patients are
fully shown,  as  the  casts  prove,  that were  taken  when
the patients came to us for  treatment, and casts taken of the
same case and patient, when they were discharged as cured ;
the first cast exhibiting all the signs  of physical debility and
weakness, and  the last casts, signs of physical strength  and
good health,  and wo are happy to say the patients are  still
alive, and  can show for themselves a  state of strong and vigor-
ous health, though several years have passed.
   From all  facts stated  under this  head,  every Scrofulous
person, and family in which there is a Scrofulous or feeble
and delicate child, should use daily  a  Magneto-Electric  ma-
chine  of proper construction, and they  will be  greatly im- 
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proved by it, if they have colds, influenzas or catarrh, it will
be helped by it, but what is still better,  they  will  seldom or
scarcely ever take cold if they use them, and thousand's of
dormant or latent  Scrofula, and tendencies to Consumption
will never be developed, and an infinite amount of human hap-
piness produced in consequence.
  It should not be supposed that we imagine for one moment,
that we have stated one-half of the means to be  adopted to
avert the development  of Scrofula, in all cases ; it would re-
quire a book  by itself, nor have we  more than  glanced at
some principal  causes of it, and some  measures used to avoid
its development and progress,  as to the  general  character of
the means we use to change the Scrofulous Diathesis or  ten-
dency to that of a contrary one, giving in its stead, strength,
vigor and symmetry of form.
  The Mode of Using the Machine  in  all the  conditions
under this head, is general, and may be accomplished by the
patient holding a pole in each hand  for a few minutes,  and
then placing one pole in a foot bath, keeping the other in the
hands still,  or the pole that is put in the bath, may be taken
by another healthy person in  one  hand, and then pass their
other hand all over the rjerson  of the patient.  All delicate and
feeble persons of every age, that is, young or old,  should do
that once a day, and they would find their health and strength
improved, and life prolonged.
       DEFORMITIES OF THE FEET AND LIMBS.

  In  Deformities of the feet and  limbs,  consequent upon
paralysis of one or more  muscle,  or sets of muscles, the
author has succeeded in restoring them to symmetry of form in
their shape, with a good degree of natural power to the limb,
in a manner quite satisfactory to the patient as well as  to him-
self.
  It will be observed that, in none  of these cases here illus-
trated by cuts, do we include such deformities of the  feet as
are congenital  club feet, or those deformed feet with which
children are born, but such only, as are the result of paralysis
of one or more  muscle in the limb.
  Many children from one to three; years old, from irritation
of the bowels or teething, or both,  are suddenly seized with 
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paralysis of one or both  extremities,  sometimes it follows a
severe fit of illness of some kind, such as Diarrhoea, Dysen-
tery, Fever and Fits.
  In Paralysis growing out of any of these causes, it should
always be cured immediately, while it is only Paralysis, and it
can be easily done by the use  of Magnetic-Electricity, and it
is only such cases as are not cured then, from which these defor-
mities result, and as both  sets of antagonizing muscles do not
become  equally  restored, one  set  of muscles, of the limb
coming to their power first, and the extensor muscles coming
later;  the  flexor muscles first contract and draw into a state
of extension the extensor muscles, and the  limb is  deformed,
because the weaker extensor muscles that are more thoroughly
paralyzed  than the flexors, can never, without .help, bring to
a natural position the limb, and hold it there, a:.-.!  hence the
deformity results.
   The above  is  the only kind  of deformity of the limb, in
which Magnetic-Electricity is of any use, and  in these cases it
will  always  cure  it,  while Palsy, if applied  properly  and
thoroughly, and save  the deformity, and it is the only means
by  which the deformity  can  be  cured,  without leaving  the
child more or less lame for life, with a weak limb.  We have
always succeeded in  curing  these  cases without cutting the
tendons, or any  surgical operation, and without a moment's
confinement  of the  patient to the house, or from play or books,
moie  perfectly than they possibly can be, by cutting the ten-
dons, and with infinitely better limbs.
   This is done by curing the  Paralysis by  Magnetic-Electri-
city,  ana  overcoming the  contraction  of  the  muscle by
mechanical means, all of  which, can certainly be done without
any pain or confinement  whatever to  the  child, and  with the
success here exhibited in the cuts, which we believe will be
satisfactory to  all, while cutting the tendons to restore the de-
formity leaves  a perpetual lameness of the limb for life.
             Fig. 1—Represents the foot  of a child,  eleven
           years old,  showing a complete  paralysis  of the
           muscles on the front part of the limb, and those on
           the back side being  contracted, throws  the  foot
           down in the manner seen in the cut.  This cut is
           made from a drawing of a cast  that was  taken of
           the  limb  when it  came to us for treatment,  and
           shows the exact form  and  position of the foot on
         u which  the child  had  walked for seven  or eight
 
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years, causing a great deformity of the foot, very  irregular
and uncertain step, and destroying all her future prospects of
happiness.  The above case was a sequel of scarlet fever.
            Fig. 2.—Represents the same foot and limb as in
          Fig. 1, after  six  week's treatment by the author
          without  a moment's confinement to the house,  pain
          to the patient, or any kind of surgical operation, or
          cutting of tendons ;  and there cannot be a doubt,
          but that this mode of managing, secures a much
       \ better limb, with its natural  powers.  The above
resultsSire secured entirely by the  use of Magnetic-Electri-
city to restore the  paralysis of the muscles, and  an apparatus
applied to the foot to extend the contracted muscle to its na-
tural length.   At the close of the period here spoken of,  you
have the  deformity removed, but more time is require'd to re-
store full power and balance in the action of the muscles.

             Fig.  3.—Represents the foot of lad twelve years
           old, who had a paralysis of the leg at a little over
           a year  old, which was not restored at the time only
           partially.   This deformity grows out of the loss
           of power in one set of muscles  to operate with
           equal force against  another  set,  and the tendency
           of all muscles being to contract on themselves, those
           that regained  their power contracted with force
           sufficient to bring the foot in the position seen in
           the cut Fig. 3, which is from a cast taken of the foot
           and leg when received for treatment.   The above
           case was  a sequence of Dysentery.
Cue 2—FIG. 3
  Fig. 4.—Is a drawing made from a cast taken of
the same foot  and leg as represented in Fig. 3,
after treatment thirteen weeks, without cutting of
tendons  or confinement to  the  room  or  house,
or pain to the patient—an entire  restoration of
the deformity with  good power  and use of the
limb.   In this class  of deformities the same re-
sult has  always  been  obtained  by the  author,
and there is no  reason why others should not
obtain it, if they use the means.   The  author
deems the exhibition of two cases, as good as more,
out of the many he has thus cured. 
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SPINAL CURVATURES,  AND  DISTORTIONS, OR  SCRO-
           FULA AFFECTING THE  MUSCLES.

 ^ Having made under the head  of Scrofula  in General, and
Growth  and Physical Development  of Children, many  re-
marks that are equally applicable  under  this head, and per-
tinent to this subject, the author  recommends  the perusal of
those two subjects before reading this, to save  a repetition of
many things which would leave this article imperfect  without
setting them forth here, if they were not there illustrated.
  This is another form of Scrofula, and  is always accompa-
nied with its attendants, debility  and a lack  of vitality, from
enfeebled performance of the vital functions  of life, deficient
development of the chest, lack of force and quantity of circu-
lating blood, and deficient development of muscle, one  of  the
great sets of physical apparatus to the animal machine, which
throws all out of balance; and discord in action, and deformity
of the person, are an inevitable result.
  Having, for the last nine years,  devoted a  large portion of
our professional labor and study, too seek a means by which
this formidable  and  distressing class of diseases could be re-
medied, we are able to say  that  every case, taken early, or
when it first shows itself, can  certainly be remedied, and good
strong health, and full development of muscles given the pa-
tient  when early attended  to, and  perseveringly pursued.
Cases of from three  to seven years standing we have always
succeeded in curing, but much more time, labor and effort are
required to secure the same result.
   There are some cases connected with Caries of the Bones,
(a state of things that  can always  be detected) that make the
case more  doubtful  and difficult to accomplish, but we have
succeeded  whenever we  could  rally the physical forces to
strength.  We have treated  one case that had existed  twenty
years, and the subject was fourteen years old when  it com-
menced, and  we have raised the spine six  inches in length
that was before sunk by curvature and  lost in  the  length,
 with   great  improvement of health and  strength,  and if
it do not get entirely well in  form,  it will be because a few of
the bones of the spine, have grown together in  their deformed
state, a circumstance which sometimes occurs.
   We mention this last case, not to invite persons who have
 been thus long afflicted, to come to seek a remedy, but to show
that however bad a  case  may be,  or of long  standing,  they 
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can be  somewhat improved  in form, and much in health, by
our course of management and treatment ;  at  the same time,
we never could  advise one to seek a remedy, whose case is as
bad as  the case (of twenty years standing) mentioned, with-
out making up their mind to fully devote their time to it,  and
continually  labor for it  for years,  as  nothing short  of  it
can accomplish much, and with it a great deal can be done to
improve the health and form, even of as bad a case as the  one
last mentioned.
   We cannot here enter into a detail of treatment which is
necessary for the accomplishment of this great object, further
than simply to say, that it is  embraced under three  principal
heads, Medical, Mechanical  and Gymnastic exercises, with
the daily use of Magnetic-Electricity, and in case of any im-
portance, it cannot be accomplished in a permanent manner,
so that the patients  shall be  well and remain  so, with good
forms, without combining all  of these means.
   Some things we ought to mention, viz : we do not use  any
mechanical means that are the least embarrassing to the free
use of all the muscles and motions pf the body.   Full and free
exercise  is enjoined, no lacings  allowed about the chest or
waist, no brass corsets allowed to be worn on any account, no
forcible  mechanical extensions, or drawing out of the person
as on a bed stretcher or inclined plane, beyond what may be
obtained by simple means, and the patient have good refresh-
ing sleep while it is being done ; but everything  done  and
insisted  on, that can develope muscle, expand the chest, im-
prove the strength and digestion, strengthen the force of the
circulation, give  a  full development of the  vital functions,
securiug to the patient, both then  and  ever  after, an  entire
change  in their habit of body and  Scrofulous tendency,  to
that of health, strength, agility and symmetry of form,  as are
so well and  truthfully illustrated  in  the cuts representing  the
cases as they came to me for  treatment, and casts taken of the
same cases after treatment and at different periods ef the same.
   It is  proper here  to remark, for those who do not know it
already, that these casts of the back  and feet are  as exact as
the cast of a person's mouth  upon which a dentist works his
gold plate to make an artificial set of teeth, fastened by atmos-
pheric pressure on the gums, that is, they are absolute  copies
to the nicety of a hair's breadth, as the mould is made  on the
back of the patient, as for any other casting. 
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SPINAL DEFORMITIES—LATERAL  CURVATURE.
  Fig. 1, is the form of a cast  taken at the
commencement of treatmentof Miss M. E.
V. S., aged 13 years.  This cast was taken
May24, 1816, showing a Curvature of three
years standing, in which there was  a thin
muscle, and all the physical forces in a low
state, and flesh thin, as will be observed by
the projections of the  spinal column and
shoulder blades.
  Fig. 2, is the form of a cast taken  of the
same case, after eight weeks treatment, on
the 25lh of July, following, showing, a per-
fect  form, good  chest and plump muscle.
This case  forcibly  illustrates the advan-
 tage, and benefits of an early attention to,
 and treatment of these cases of defor-
 mity, at a time  when a cure  may always
 be looked for with confidence.
 A SPINAL DEFORMITY—A CASE OF
      •ANGULAR  DISTORTION.

   Fig.  3, is  a profile or side view of
 a case  of Angular  Distortion of the
 spine, drawn from a cast taken  at the
 time the case was  received for treatment.
This  Distortion originated from a psoas
abscess  in  the lumbar region, when the
child was passing from three to five years
old; the  distortion  of the spine came on
after  he was five  years old, and was of
eight years standing.   His name was A.
B., thirteen years old, of this State, and he
was so weak in the back, when he came to
the author, that he could not sit  at the
table to take his meals, without resting on
his elbows, or turn himself over in bed,
without first getting upon bis elbows and
fallinjr over on his other side. 
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MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY
  Fig. 4, is a back  view from  the  cast
taken of the same case, A. B., at the same
time,  these  two  cuts  showing the entire
shapelessness of  the body to  the human
form.
  Fig. 5, is a drawing of a back view
of a cast  taken  from the same  case, A.
B., after  three months treatment by the
author, showing very  evident improve-
ment in form and figure, with a good be-
ginning to the development of muscle.
  Fig. 6, is  the  form  of a  cast of the
same  case,  A. B.,  taken after  the  pa-
tient  had  been with  us  about  seven
 months.    Two  and  a half  months  of
 that  treatment  was  interrupted by  ill-
 ness, and the spinal treatment  and ex-
 ercises had to be suspended on  account
 of it, so that there was, in fact, but four
 and a half months  of spinal  treatment
 spent on this case,  to  bring about  the
 changes of form, developing a figure of
 human shape, and some strength of muscle
 We are not able to show a cast of  this
 case as cured, because the patient  and
 family were jn very low circumstances,
 and depending  on the charity  of their
 friends, and when we came  to this city,
 the patient could not come with us.
LATERAL  OR BILATERAL CURVA-
       TURE OF THE SPINE.

  Fig. 7, is the  form of a drawing of
the first cast taken of Miss M. B. B., of
this State, aged sixteen years, when she
came for treatment.  This is a Lateral
Curvature of seven years standing, and
the following truthful delineation  shows
how thin and emaciated is the figure in
this form of Scrofulous disease, and how 
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attenuated are all  the muscles, giving
evidence of great vital and physical de-
bility  of the whole  system, and all  its
organs and apparatus.
   Fig. 8, is an engraving of a cast taken
after four and half months  treatment of
Miss M. B. B.,  showing a beautiful form,
full and strong figure,well developed chest
and muscle, and these  results are always
accompanied with good vigorous health.
These physical changes,  that are so ob-
vious in this case, are absolute essentials
to  a permanent  cure  that will remain,
with good  health ; and anything short of
such a result, is  comparatively good for
nothing, for it only raises  the patient up
for a  time, to  let them  fall again into
hopeless despondency  and  misery, if the
treatment be not persevered  in  until  a
cure is effected.
                    GENERAL REMARKS  ON  DEFORMI-
                            TIES OF THE  SPINE.
                      In speaking of these Deformities that
                    are illustrated in the foregoing cuts, the
                    author is disposed to make the following
                    remarks, viz : first,  that all  cases  taken
                    early, or when they  first make their ap-
         rio.8       pearance, as in  Figure 1, shown in case
first, can certainly be cured, if .they are  not complicated with
other disease, that would be impracticable with our treatment,
or such as would  forbid the necessary  exercises ; secondly,
these physical changes are an indispensable requisite to a per-
manent cure of the disease, or a tendency to it—and it is im-
possible to bring them about, without combining the necessary
means for it, viz :  Medical, Mechanical, Magnetic-Elec-
tricity and  Gymnastic  Exercises, all in  the  same  case ;
thirdly, any treatment that confines rjie motions of the  body,
or prevents free action of the chest and muscles, or any motion
of the body and limbs, will prevent a cure taking place.   Any
confinement of the body on a bed, or bed-stretcher, inclined
plane, chair with crutches, brass or other metallic corsets, or 
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 any lacings about the chest and stomach, that embarrasses or
 confines them, to prevent free muscular motion, free respira-
 tion and circulation, tends to form a hinderance, and prevent a
 cure from taking place.
   Such treatment must inevitably weaken and  debilitate the
 patient, besides being painful  to bear, when there is no occa-
 sion  for anything painful  or  inconvenient, beyond a necessity
 to perform, certain well directed exercise in a persevering and
 proper manner, in our treatment of these cases.
   We ought to state, that the changes in form  and physical
 strength here represented  in the cuts, may not be realized in
 every case in the proportion  of time here mentioned, as all
 cases equally bad do not progress in  improvement alike, nor
 can we make them.
   We ought to say to all persons afflicted with  this form of
 disease, that it is nearly useless  to undertake to  seek a  re-
 medy, unless they will comply with everything  that is essen-
 tial to success  in its treatment,  for which the indispensable
 essentials are,  a determination of will, to do  the  work of
 exercise that is  required to make the cure  permanent with
 lasting good health. In every case, however bad, there will be
 improvement in form and health, and such cases as the first cut
 represents, will be certainly cured ; and case third, (Figure 7)
 in longer time will arrive at the same happy result; and case 2d
 (Figure 3) we have no reason to  doubt, would also arrive at a
happy termination, but more  time  would be required than
 above mentioned.  The object to be accomplished is great, and
the labor is great in proportion to the extent of the deformity.
   The Mode of Usino Magnetic-Electricity,  in Spinal De-
formities, is both general and local.   It may be used over  the
 chest and body in the same way and  for the same  purpose,
that  we  recommend it in  all  other  forms of Scrofula,  and
locally on the muscles, which  we wish to strengthen and de-
velope.   It should be used every day, and on those particular
muscles, with as strong a current as can be well  borne by  the
patient, as the action of Electricity promotes  the growth and
development of  the whole person, and especially the muscles,
 when weak and deficient. 
IN  D
EX.
Abortion......  ,_.............24
Abscess, Scrofulous,.........43 90
Abdominal Distention..........43
Absorption, promoted  by Elec-
  tricity ......................84
After Pains....................77
Agitans, Paralysis,.............53
Age Renewed..........---66 68
Ague and Fever,.......------ 60
Albugo,.....—......-........83
Alterative Action of Electricity, 84
Amaurosis....................41
Ani, Prolapsus of...............28
Ano, Fistula in..........------43
Auscultation, Electric,..........72
Anurism......................78
Anchylosis....................78
Anasarca___..................51
Animal Heat..................64
Angina Pectoris..........-----33
Apparent Death................65
Aphonia, or Loss of Voice..----49
Amenorrhcea..............---26
Apoplexy,....................51
Asthma,......................70
Asphyxia, Still Born Children.. .19
     Do.   From Drowning......19
     Do.   From Poisoning   by
   Strychnine___..............21
     Do.   Poisoning by Opium
   and other causes,........ 21 22
Atrophy, or Wasting of a Part,..84
Army need a Machine, — 6  10 to 14
Atonic Stale or  GeneralDeblity..83
 Buboes____..................42
Bite from a Mad Dog............27
Bleeding from the Womb, ......23
Bloodlessuess,.................38
Bilious Colic,..................29
Belly Ache in Horses...........79
Bruises,.......................60
Blood, Disease of,..............82
Brights Disease,...............40
Bowels, Falling of,.............28
Buried Alive..................65
Bladder, Stone  in..............40
Backs  Weak..................80
Backs, Stitch oi Crick in........80
Breathing Difficult, ............83
Baldness......................66
Bowels, Pain  in, ..............63
Bones, Scrofula  of..............94
Breasts, Swelled,..............75
Bracelets, Metalic..............76
Blood, Flow of Irregular........82
Blown or Hoven Cattle ........80
Congestion....................84
Chronic Bronchitis,............81
Cancer,   .................  4175
Chloroform, Poisoning by......  74
Cataract.......................72
Conception, False..............77
Curvature of Spine,...... 103 108
ClubFoot,....................100
Causes of Failure,  ............   C
Capillary Circulation,..........84
Catarrh of Lungs,..............81
Catarrh in General,............  59
Callouses,.....................81
Caries of Bones................94
Contractions of  Muscles,........50
Critical Periods  of Women......24
Colic......................29, 31
Cholera  Infantum..............30
Cataplasms,...................76
Consumption,.................87
Cholera Morbus,............29,31
Cholera Asiatic.............30, 31
Congestion of Blood,..........-.84
Colic, Lead or Painters,'.....30, 31
Crick in Side or Back...........80
Cold Water, over  Draught of 30, 31
Chlorosis, ....................38
Chorea,.......................39
Catalepsy ....................39
Cornea, Opacity of,............83
Chronic  Ulcers.................41
Cancerous Ulcers,......----41 75
Calculus, or Stone iu Bladder,  48
Constipation,..................44
Coma,........................62
Crisis of Fevers.............62 89
Cornutum Secale,..............46
Caucrous Orum,..............79
Cattle, Hoven or Blown.........80
Children, Growth of   ..........94
Calculus,  ....................48
Diseases of the Skin,........59 77
Diseases of the Blood,..........82
Distribution of Blood,..........82
Debility, General,..............83
Dyspnoea, or Difficult Breathing, 83
Dysmenorrhoea,................25
Draught of Cold Water,  ....30 31 
110                          index.
Death, Apparent,               65
Diarrhoea,                      30
Dysentery,                  30 31
Deafness,                       55
Delirium Tremens              44
Drinking Habitual,              45
Diabetes,                       40
Dropsy of the Limbs,           51
Dyspepsia,                     62
Diseases, Spasmodic,            25
Diseases, Nervous,              64
Difficult Breathing,              83
Disease, Periodical              64
Deformities, Scrofulous,   100  103
Development,  Physical          94
Detection of Needles,           71
Disease of the Knee  Joint,       90
Disease of the Hip Joint,        90
Disease, Hereditary,          94 96
Dry Gangrene,                  33
Drowning,                     19
Drunkenness,                21 45
Emissions, Nocturnal,           64
Exhaustion from any cause,      89
Erysipelas,                     58
Epilepsy,                       64
Electro-Puncture,               77
Electricity in Surgery           78
Elephantiasis,                   58
Evil, Kings,                    92
Enlarged Tonsils,               74
Electric Auscultation,           72
Electcity,  Alterative Action of   84
Electric Machine,               10
Electro-Magnetic Machine,    10 18
Enlarged Abdomen,             43
Ear, Palsy of Nerve of,       55 57
Fragilitas, Ossium,              48
False Conception,               77
Fevers, Swelled Limbs after,     58
Foot Club,                    100
Flatulency, Abdominal,          43
Fevers, Exhaustion from         89
Fevers, Crisis of,               62
Fluor  Albus,                   23
Fistula in Ano,                 43
Flow of Blood,                 23
Falling of the Womb, Prolapsus 22
Falling of the  Bowels,  Piles,     28
Face, Palsy of,              53 56
Face, Tic-Doloureux of, Neuralgia 35
Fractures, Un-united,           48
Flowing from the Womb,        23
Fungous Ha.matodes,        75 76
 Fainting,                      64
 Gall Stones, in passage of,       34
 Glands, Lymphatic,             93
 Gangrene or Mortification,      32
 Gout,                          37
 Gastralgia, or Pain in Stomach,  35
 General Palsy,               52 53
 Goitre,                         76
 Gutta Serena,                  41
 Galvanism,                     10
 Galvanic Cataplasms, or Poultices 76
 Growth of Children,         93 94
Gasses, Asphyxia from       19 21
Gray Hairs,                  66 80
General Debility,               83
 General Remarks on Galvanism, 10
 Hoven or Blown Cattle,         80
 Hip Joint, Disease of,           90
Horses over Fed, Colic,         79
Heat, Animal,                  64
Hereditary Disease,          94 96
Hysterical Palsy,               53
Hiccough,                      45
Horned RyeorSecale Cornutum 46
Hydrocele,                  75 76
Hemorrhage from the Womb,  23
Hysterics, or Spasms from       25
Hydrophobia,                   27
Hernia, Reduction  of           34
Hardening of Bones,            48
Hemicrama, or Pain in the Head, 36
Headache, Periodical & Nervous 36
Hairs, Gray,                66 80
Heart, Rheumatism of,          49
Hypertrophy,                   46
Handles to Machines,           14
Irritation Spasms from Hysterics 25
Infants, Cholera of,              30
Infants, Growth of,              87
Intussusception,                 34
Impotence,                     39
Incontinence of Seamen,        64
Incontinence of  Urine       55 57
Incontinence of the  Bowels,   55
 Impaired Vision,               55
Irritable Ulcers,                 41
 Irritation, Spinal,               73
 Imperfect Distribution of Blood, 82
 Joints, Dropsy of,               90
 Joints, Knee Disease of,         90
 Joints, Rheumatic Swellings of,  82
 Joints, Stiff,                    78
Jaw, Locked or  Tetanus        27
 Knee Joint,  Disease of,          90 
INDEX.
Ill
King's Evil,                    92
Kidney, Passage of Stones from,  48
Kidneys, Blights Disease,       40
Limbs, Swelled from Fevers,    58
Lead, Palsy from,               54
Loss of Voice,                  49
Life, Critical Periods of,        24
Locked Jaw or Tetanus,        27
Lead Colic,                 30 31
Labour or Parturition           38
Lucorrhoea or Whites,          23
Leg, Milk,                     57
Lymphatic Glands,             92
Limbs, Perishing or Wasting of, 84
Liquor, Drinking habit of      45
Menorrhagia,                   24
Menses, Irregular,              24
Menses, Immoderate Flow of,   24
Mm bus Coxarius,              90
Muscles. Scrofula of,            93
Metallic Substances in the Flesh, 71
Myotomy or Cutting Muscles,  100
Metallic Bracelets,             76
Milk Leg,                     57
Mother Marks,                 78
Menstruation, Painful,          25
Menstruation,  Suppressed      26
Machines General, Remarks 9 to 14
Machines, for Medical use   9 to 18
Magneto-Electric Machine,  10 to 15
Magnetism an essential quality 9 18
Mortification or Gangrene,      32
Mortification, Dry,             32
Magnetic treatment of Palsy, 52 56
.Malignant Ulcers,              41
Muscular Contractions,         50
Masturbation, or Self-Pollution  61
Menorrhagia or Flowing,       24
Manganese, as a Medicine used, 86
Melites Ossium,                48
Magnetism General Remarks on 4 14
Magnetic Machines, Quality of, 9 12
Magnetism,                  11 12
Megrim, or St. Vitus' Dance,    39
Nervous Wakefulness,          65
Navy,                           6
Nervous System,               64
Na-vi Materni,                 78
Nerve Sympathetic,            64
Nervous Diseases,               64
Nodes  Syphilitic,          4 to 42
Neuralgia, Syphilitic,            42
Nocturnal Emissions,            61
Neuralgia,                   35 64
Navy need the Machine, 10 to 14 47
Nutrition promoted byMagnetism 84
Needles in the Flesh, Detection of 71
Nux Vomica, poisoning by,      21
Nervous Headache,             35
Odontalgia, or Tooth Ache,      35
Onanism, or Self-Pollution,      61
Orchitis, or Swelled Testicle.    75
Ossium Fragilitas, Brittle Bones 48
Ossium Molites, or Soft Bones, 48
Orem Cancrous,                79
Opthalmi.i, Scrofulous Sore Eyes 93
Opium, Poisoning by,           21
Optic Nerve, Palsy of,          41
Opium Eating, Habit of,         45
Pains, After,                   77
Pain in the Bowels of Children, 63
Puncture Electro.              77
Physical Development Growth 93 94
Periodicity of Disease,          64
Poisoning by Chloroform,       22
     „    by Opium,            21
     „    by Prusic Acid,       21
    „    by Strychnine,     21 22
     „     by all the Vegetable
  and Narcotic Poisons,         22
Palsy in  General,     52, 53, 54, 57
Palsy, Painters' or Lead,        54
Painters'Colic,              30,31
Palsy, Magnetic treatment of,   54
Paralysis Agitaus,              53
Purpura Hemorrhagica,        47
Palsy  of the Optic Nerve,       41
Pollution, Self,                 61
Prolapsus Uteri,                22
Prolapsus A ni or Files,          28
Periods, Critical of Females,    24
Painful Menstruation,          25
Piles or Falling of the Bowels,   28
Passage of Gall Stones,         48
Passage  of  Stones from Kidney, 48
Phlegmasia Dolens, (Milk Leg) 57
Phthisis Pulmonalis, Consumption 87
Plasters, Galvanic,              76
Pleurisy,                       82
Perspiration promoted,         84
Pericarditis, Rheumatic,  '      49
Periodical or Sick Headache,    35
Pain iu the  Stomach,           35
Parturition or Labor,           38
Police Stations Machine,   10  to 14
Public Speakers, Sore Throat,   74
Perishing of a Part             84
Quacks, Remarks on,             6 
112
INDEX.
Restlessness, Nervous,          64
Renewed Age, or Sustainedyouth 66
Quality of Machines,             9
Rheumatic Swelled Joints,      82
Rheumatic Syphilitic            42
Rheumatic, Pericarditis,        49
Rheumatism,                36 37
Ringing in the Ears,         55 57
Rings, Galvanic,                76
Rectum,  Abscess in,            43
Rickets and Rachitis,           48
Sustained Youth and Renewed
  age,                      66 69
Swelied Limbs after Fevers,     58
Scrofula  in General,            85
Scrofulous Disease of the Knee
  Joint,                        90
Scrofula  of the Hip Joint,       90
Scrofulous White Swellings,     90
Scrofulous Abscesses,        41 90
Swelling of Lymphatic Glands,
  King's Evil,                  93
Scrolulous Opthalmia or  Sore
  Eyes,                        93
    Do.     Disease of Muscles, 93
  [see Curvature.]         103 105
Scrofulous Disease of Bones, [see
  Molites and Fragilitas Ossium, 48
Syphilitic Nodes,               42
Swelled  Breasts,               75
Swelled  Testicles,              75
St. Vitus' Dance,               39
Stomach. Pain in,               36
Sympathetic Nerve,            64
Syncope,                      64
Syphilis  Tertiary,               42
Spinal Irritation,               73
Sore Throat, of Public Speakers, 74
Secretions promoted by Electri-
  city,                        84
Side Pain, and Stitch in,         80
Strychnine, Poisoning by,       21
Spinal Curvature,      '   103 108
Skin,  Diseases  of,           59 77
Softening of Bones,            48
Spasms from Uterine Irritation,  25
Spasmodic Diseases,         25 63
Sore Eyes, Scrofulous,          93
Suppressed Menstruation,       26
Stone in  the Bladder,           48
Swelled Joints in Rheumatism,  82
Sciatica                        36
Sterility or Barrenness,         39
Secale Coruutum,               46
Scurvy,                        47
Syphilis,                        42
Self-Pollution,                  61
Strains and Sprains             60
Salt Rheum,                 59 77
Surgery, Electricity in,          78
Sedative Action ot Electricity,  84
Sponge on the handles,          14
Spinal Disease,             73 103
Tabies Messenterica,-           43
Tetanus or Lock Jaw,          27
Tooth Ache,                    36
Tic-Douloureux,                36
Tiuatus Aram,               55 57
Testicles, Swelled,              75
Tonsils, Enlarged and Swelled  74
Throat, Sore,                   74
Turn  of Life,                   24
Tertiary Syphilis,               42
Uterus, or Womb Falling of     22
Uterus Hemorrhage,  from or
  Flowing '                    23
Urine, Incontinence of       55 57
Urine, Suppression of,       55 57
Fleers, Chronic                 41
  Do.  Syphilitic,               41
  Do.  Indolent,               41
  Do.  Irritable,                41
Uterine Irritation,               25
Ununited Fractures             48
Voice, Loss of                  49
Varicose Veins,                 41
Varicose Ulcers,                41
Vitality,                        12
Vision, Impaired                55
White Swellings of Joints and  90
  Limbs,                       90
Wasting or Perishing of a Part,  84
Whites, Fluor, Albus,           23
Womb, Flowing from          23
Water, Over Draught of         30
Wakefulness,                   64
Womb, Falling of,              22
Wry Neck,                     50
Weak Backs,                  80
Youth Sustained,               66 
MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY,
OR,
ELECTRO-MAGNETISM

          MEDICALLY APPLIED
FOR THE
CURE OF DISEASE.
Designed to accompany KINNE'S MAGNETO-ELECTRIC AND
 ELECTRO-MAGNETIC MACHINE, containing instructions for
       its use. and Reference to Casts of Practice.
BY WILLIAM W. KIRTWE, ffl. D., 628 Broadway,
E. L. HOUGHTON, Agent. 38 Cedar Street, N. Y.
         ONE DOOR WEST OF Wll.l.lAM ST.
         NEW YORK :

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MAGNETO-ELECTRIC  MACHINE.

              CERTIFICATES.
  Charles M.  Allen, M.  D., Resident 'Surgeon  of the  New York
Hospital, says of the above Machine,  "that I have examined  the
Magneto-Electric Machine of Dr. Kinne's, and have employed it in
surgical cases under my charge.  I have been much  pleased with
its action, and consider that in convenience and readiness of appli-
cation it has no superior."
  I have examined Dr. Kinne's Magneto-Electric Machine, and con-
sider it well adapted for medical purposes, possessing the advantage
of operating without either chemical  solutions or labor,  and being
capable of being wound  up like a watch, and giving  a  continued
action, of an intensity easily  regulated, for nearly half an hour.
I regard it as superior to any machine now in use.
                 LAWRENCE REED, Professor of Chemistry.
  New York Hospital, Dec. 2. 1851.
DR. KINNE,
  Dear Sir :—I have for some time past been using your Magneto-
Electric Machine, for medical purposes, and am happy to say that I
think it the  most  perfect thing  of the kind now known, and the
quality of the agent better than that derived from batteries formerly
in use, and having the advantage of  being always available in a
moment's time.
                 [ am yours, &c,  respectfully,
                        T. JEFFERSON STOUT, M. D.,
  New York, Dec.  15, 1851.                130 Prince st., N. Y.
DR. KINNE,
  Dear Sir :—I  have examined your self-operaling Magneto-Elec-
tric Machine for medical purposes, and consider it to possess several
advantages over all other forms of the instrument which have fallen
under my notice for the same purpose.
                         WILLIAM H. ELLKT, M. D.,
  New York, Jan. 22, 1852.                  14 Cottage  Place.

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