When I have used the gentle shocks upon a palsy, I have never been able to discover that any of the common celebrated specifics, when cojoined with the electrification, were of any use in accelerating the cure: I have several times coined a preparation of Spl Vini. Camp. Val. Spi. c. c., and applied this compound as hot as the patient could bear; in which state, the muscle will absorb a firearm nearly as big as a large knitting-needle; but it is something probable, that the diffusability of the shocks, operating diaphoretically, propels the stimulus absorpt in the muscle towards the surface, and it flies off in perspiration prematurely.

Dropsy.

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