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____|              INDEX OF  CONTENTS.
                                                             PA6B.
Introduction.....        ......5
Description of the Electro-Galvanometer.....11
Directions for Usino  the Electro-Galvanometer, and  Mode
     of Applying it to the Relief and Removal op Disease      14
Diseases Successfully Treated  by  Means of the  Electro-
     Galvanometer :
  Amaurosis, or Dimness of Vision........   17
  Aphonia, or Loss of Voica.........     17
  Asthma, or Phthisic...........17
  Abscess.............     18
  Atrophia, or Nervous Consumption........18
  Amenorrhoea............     18
  Bronchitis.............18
  Blindness......'.....18
  Bronchocele, or Goitre......•••...   19
  Brain, Congestion or Concussion........     19
  Chorosa, or St. Vitus's Dance.........19
  Cataract.............20
  Chlorosis, or Green Sickness.........21
  Curvature of the Spine     .    .    .   :.....21
  Cramp...       ..........21
  Colio.............     22
  Coldness of the Feet and Hands......            22
  Contraction of Muscles..........     22
  Depression of Spirits .  ^..........22
  Deafness........•   .   .    .   .     22
  Dysmenorrhoea, or Painful Menstruation.......22
  Dyspepsia............     23
  Diseased Spine............23
  Gout.............     23
  Hemiplegia, or Half Paralysis.........23
  Headache, Nervous or Sick                    .....23
  Incontinency of Urine..........24
  Leuoorrhcea, or " Whites ".........     24
  Lnmbago.............24
  Loss of Muscular Tone or Power........     24
  Menstruation, Difficult, Suspended or Partial ......   24
  Nervous Diseases of every Grade and Numbness    ....     24
  Palsy and Paralysis...........24
  Palpitation of the Heart.........     27 
iv                INDEX  OF  CONTENTS.

  Pleurisy.........'  ....    28
  Prolapsus Uteri, or Falltag of the Womb......     28
  Rheumatism.......        ....    28
  Sciatica.............     ^
  Scrofula    ....       ........    28
  TicDoloreux.......'."....     29
  Tremens—Delirium...........29
  Uterine Convulsions and Debility.......     29
  Withered or Decayed Limbs.........29
Certificates from Medical Gentlemen and Others s
  Dr. Issaohar Snell...........81
  Dr. William Henry Barton.........     81
  Hon. David L. D. Garland     .    .    :......32
  R. C. Douglass.......:....     82
  Rev. Jason Harvey Lee..........82
  Dr. James L. Colton..........     86
  Mrs. S. M................85
  Mr. David C. Moorhead........' .   '.     86 
INTRODUCTION.
  When, a few years since, it was announced that a dis-
covery had been made, in Electricity and Galvanism, by
which  it could be put under the control of the  merest
child, or used by any one in the removal of certain  dis-
eases—of a nervous and inflammatory character—without
the individual having previously acquired the  slightest
knowledge  of either the Anatomy  of the body  or the
laws which govern health, and  repel disease,—the an'
nouncement  was  received with  distrust and suspicion.
But a few months,  however, had elapsed after this decla-
ration,  when another, still  more startling, was made,  viz :
That not only  could  Electricity and Galvanism  relieve
diseases of a nervous  and inflammatory character,  but,
that the disease itself, and its exact locality, could instantly
be detected with the most unerring precision and certain-
ty ; and that to the entire and perfect satisfaction of the
patient; to both, to the operator and the individual, at
one and the same moment; and that, as we before have
said, without the operator having the slightest knowledge
of either  Anatomy,  Physiology, or  Materia Medica!!!
This announcement was instantly condemned  as the very
quintessence  of  humbuggery  and empiricism—becau.se
what was not understood—what did not seem probable—
without even  taking the trouble to see if it was possible-
was stamped  instantly with  the  cognomen of quackery,
and  its devotees with the corresponding appellation of
quacks.
  Notwithstanding, however, all these disadvantages, the
subject took deep and strong hold on the mass of the com
munity.  Their minds became exercised;  thought rapidly 
6
ELECTRICITY AND  GALVANISM.
 engendered thought,  and there  was no  lack of either
 operators or  subjects to test  the truthfulness  of these
 declarations.  At this moment, also, the most eminent of
 the  medical faculty—men  who  had  ever distinguished
 themselves  in every laudable  manner, by their influence
 and name,  to discover a remedy which  should not only
 lessen disease and alleviate pain  and suffering, but  in
 strong and silent language, point out to them the extent of
 that disease, and its character.   To the honor of the pro-
 fession be it known, that with scarcely an exception,  in
 the  discovery now made, they  have not  only given  it
 their countenance  and  support, and lent  it  a helping
 hand, by their  scientific  investigations,  and philosophic
 minds, but it has been carried with them in their private
 and  public practice, thus daily exemplifying its truth and
 importance.  At this very moment the Hospitals of Europe
 are supplied,  not merely with  an instrument, but one  is
 provided for each ward ;  and American philanthropy and
 benevolence is  by no means  behind her transatlantic
 brethren ; for  similar  and equally beneficial  measures, by
 these mysterious agents,  have  been adopted in the Hos-
 pitals of  New York,  Philadelphia and  Boston, and  in
 those of  the South and West.   The benefit of this dis-
 covery is daily manifesting itself.
  Diseases  under which, heretofore,  and  for  years,  at
 stated periods, and under certain conditions of the body,
made their regular appearance, exhausting the powers and
energies  of  the sufferer, have  almost instantaneously
vanished, on the application of the galvanic Electro-Gal-
vanometer to the part affected.
  Electricity and Galvanism, in common with  many of
the popular  sciences of the day, some of its friends have,
in the fulness of their  partiality and under the excitement
of party zeal,  and of  the inflictions of slander  and ridi-
cule, caressed  it almost to death.   B»t in our researches
after truth,  and  in our adoption of facts as true, it will
ever be found a prudent  rule of action to  receive  facts,
when given on  such  authority as we cannot, on a fair
and impartial  estimate, refuse  to  receive on any and on
every other  subject.  True  it is,  that  we have very un- 
INTRODUCTION.
1
wisely, (because the principle  cannot be carried  out in
other matters) allowed  ourselves to deny truths, merely
because wc did not understand them ;  and because we did
not understand  the laws  by which they were revealed.
They have appeared contrary to our ideas  of the know:
laws of nature, and having set ourselves up, as  the ver,
Priests  of Nature, and concluding there were no other
rules  by which  she performed her offices, but those we
knew, we have presumptuously taken upon ourselves the
right of deciding that this  fact, or that fact, could not
exist, because, forsooth, it was  contrary to  the laws of
nature !
   Who is there, in this day of light and reformation, that
would dare risk  his reputation on the assertion that he
understood all the laws of nature ?   Would you, reader ?
Would your neighbor or friend ?  I trow not.  True, we
may have learned by observation, or otherwise, some of
them, as we do  the discs on the surface  of the sun, or  a
few of the other worlds which we behold,  delightfully
as brilliants in the firmament; but then, does it  follow
there are no  lands, nor seas, or that  there are not many
bright and  beautiful worlds, far, far away  beyond our
ocular Vision assisted by all the means  of improving
it, by taking_ advantage of the refractions and reflections
of light ?   The truth is, that there are men who dislike to
come forward  and candidly avow that there are some
things in the world which  they do not understand.  Then
are men, (and they are generally the  least gifted in intel-
lect,) who would have the  world believe there was nothing
left'in nature, which their intellect had  not  scanned, en-
compassed and  mastered.  Such  men are the drones 10
the hives of industry and intellect,
                " Like beasts they live,
                 Like beasts they die," &c.

   Healthy and disordered function and condition make up
the sum of the  phenomena of Life,  Health  and Disease.
Causes precede morbid action, whether  of excess or de-
fault.   This morbid action  again becomes  the cause of 
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ELECTRICITY AND  GALVANISM.
new phenoi <ena,  which again are the causes of others,
and so on, making up a chain of phenomena consisting
of successive cause and effect.
  Morbid action, whether it be of excess or default, cannot
be without cause,  either active or passive, or both.   The
causes in such cases are a defect of material  physical
powers, of a nature disproportioned to the effect of phy-
siological condition  and function.
  So far, then, as action itself is  concerned, as a  cause,
Electricity and Galvanism, with their sedative and exciting
powers, seem to  be suitable  to the end of  changing that
action, whenever it is properly manipulated,  and so far as
material  physical  powers present in the system may be
concerned, action is the means whereby alone they can pos-
sibly be removed.  In the language of another, " Disease
can only  affect  the body through one  or  more of the
various modifications of nervous perceptions.  No disease
can arise independent of this.   No disease can be cured with'
out it.   Through the same medium, and in the same man-
ner, do the greater number of our remedial forces  exert
their salutary influences on the human frame ; and whether
for good or for evil, all the forces of nature act simply by
attraction and repulsion."
  Many individuals, and  some of them in other matters
of a strong  nerve,  and vigorous  conception, have, when
brought in contact with a Galvanic instrument, even if only
within sight of it, manifested symptoms  of so m,uch fear
and alarm as to render all attempts  to convey an  idea
of its use and purposes perfectly futile and fruitless.  Nor
can any persuasions of its utility in the  removal of dis-
ease be impressed  on their minds.  They are as unbe-
lieving as a Mussulman,  and it  is rather a singular  fact,
that a  perfectly healthy man or woman  never  manifests
this dread.  They can approach an Electrical-Machine or
a Galvanic Pile,  and not only be in  contact with it, but
make it, as it were,  a familiar plaything; whilst a sickly
man, or an unhealthy woman will, in many instances, at the
mere sight of an  Electro-Magnetic Machine, become ner-
vously excited, and considerable time and  effort is required 
INTRODUCTION.
9
to allay their fears and restore their wonted composure.
Now why is this ?  The answer is very plain.  In the heal-
thy person, the beautiful vermilion color of the blood has
not lost its " roseate  hue," the " iron of the blood " has
lost none of its integrity—the " purple fluid " is pure, and
gives out  to each one of  its numerous tributaries, of that
same pure fountain, a  sufficiency of that " living stream "
which  causes a  healthy volition of muscular power and
of nervous energy and  perception.  Not so with the sickly
man, or unhealthy woman.   The day but dawns, and they
long for night, and the shades of evening scarcely begin
to draw their mantle over the face of nature—bidding it,
like a fond  mother to  her  loved babe, take " sweet and
quiet rest,"—ere they  wish for day.   A general disorgan-
ization has taken  place—the blood  has lost its  iron—its
Magnetic Power of Attraction towards the healthy tissues
of the body are vitiated.  Disease has made a " run on
the bank  "  of life, and if relief is not speedily  afforded,
she will  have to close her portals  forever.  There is a
deficiency of Electricity, and this is the cause of all disease.
The entire body has become, as it were, a non-conductor,
and health can only be  restored, and the  hitherto  dor
mant  powers  brought into lively action, by the  attn/1. •
tive and repelling forces, elicited from the Electric "/iA
Gavanic currents.
   In  presenting this  little book to the public, especial
care has been taken that it should be understood by the
great mass  of the people.   Understood by them, until
they will  know, see, feel, and believe for themselves, that
they have the  curative power, or the power  of  re-
storing health, in their own hands, in their own power—
and within their own reach.   It has been the aim of  the
author, that in  putting  this book before the public, the
method of using  the  " Electro-Galvanometer " and  the
" Female  Guardian," shall  be clothed  in such  language
as shall  be intelligible to the minds of every one, and if
the directions  laid down  are  faithfully  followed  out,
speedy relief will  come  to the unfortunate sufferer, and
in the majority of  cases, a  perfect and total annihilation 
10
ELECTRICITY AND GALVANISM.
of the disease.   Not  much  good can be anticipated, how-
ever, unless the patient has confidence—entire, full and free
confidence—combined with perseverance, bearing in mind the
fact, that the brain has a powerful influence over disease,
either for weal or woe, for good or evil. 
DESCRIPTION.
   The  Electro-Galvanometer  consists  of  a quadruple
coil, or double  helices of  coarse copper-wire,  securely
insulated, over which is wound six thousand feet of very
fine copper-wire, and likewise securely insulated, leaving
therein  a small space, wherein is placed a bundle of soft
iron wires, which, as soon as the piston or rod is introduc-
ed, becomes  a very powerful  magnet,  and increases or
decreases the power of the instrument in proportion to the
extent of its  insertion.  " The currrent from the battery
is made to pass through the inner helix, which is of coarse
copper  wire;" and by so doing it Magnetizes the iron rod
or wires in the centre.   The moment that magnetism  is
established in the iron an induced current is excited in the
outer helix, by the agency of both these changes that are
going on within  it.   While the battery current continues,
and the iron remains magnetized, no electrical current  is
occasioned  in the outer helix; but  when the current  is
suspended  or broken,  the  inner helix and the magnet
again conspire to induce  a momentary secondary current
in the outer helix.  The secondary current, induced  when
the battery circuit is first completed, is not intense enough
to be available for medical purposes;  but the current in-
duced  when  the  battery circuit is broken, is much  more
intense, and may always be relied on for  its uses in the
treatment and cure  of diseases.   To  obtain the Electrical
shocks  in succession, it is only necessary to make and
break the circuit with whatever rapidity may be  required
by the operator. 
12
ELECTRICITY AND GALVANISM.
  This is effected by means of the break-piece, over which
the battery wire inserted in the brass cup of the zinc cylin~
der, is drawn by the individual operating.  It will readily be
seen that every time the wire leaps, or is drawn from tooth
to tooth, the current is broken, and a shock is given to  the
individual holding  the handles,  which  depends for its
intensity and power to the depth of insertion of the  iron
rod or  piston.  Very  brilliant  sparks and  scintillations
will be observed at the same moment that the point of
wire comes in  contact with the rasp or break-piece on  the
top of the instrument.  At  one end of the machine is an
electro magnet, to which is attached a revolving armature
to distribute the power of  the battery alternately,  by
means of a break-piece and hammer, to which is attached
a brass column and octagonal  girdle, with a screw, by
which the amount and rate of motion may be changed.
  Great care should be taken with this screw in not allowing
it to be turned for amusement's sake, in order to give in-
creased power,  to gratify an idle and ignorant curiosity:  as,
by so doing, a  very serious injury may result to the instrU'
ment.  As a general rule, it never should be loaned,  nor
amy one allowed to touch the spring, but  the operator, pro-
prietor of the  instrument, or  some one who understands it.
  The two cups marked P.  and  N. are  the  positive  and
negative poles, to each of which a wire is inserted, and
connected also with each of the handles.  The wooden
part may be held by the operator or patient without  ex-
periencing any shock.   The  two brass cups and binding
screws in the  base  board, marked A.  and B. are for  the
Female Guardian alone, and  for which a separate treatise
is  given and should be in the hands of the head of every
family.
  Diseases  peculiar to females, together with the first
commencement of affected or diseased lungs, Dyspepsia,
diseased and  curved Spine,  vanish  before this  instrument
like magic, and  it has  been called by eminent professional
men, one of the greatest discoveries of the age.  The Gal-
vanic Battery  consists  of a copper vessel, having a space
around it enclosed  with copper  for the liquid,  and within
which is suspended a zinc cylinder, so arranged as not to be 
DESCRIPTION.                   18
in contact with the copper.  Two brass cups and binding
screws are fastened  on to the zinc and copper vessels, to
insert the connecting wires from the machine into the two
brass cups that are not lettered.  The liquid employed is
Blue Vitriol (Sulphate of Copper), to be dissolved in hot
water, about  2 to  2f ounces  to a quart and  left  to
cool before using.   The liquid  requires to be renewed
when the acid is entirely taken up by the zinc, which will
be known by there being no deposit on the  zinc, after
being  immersed for some time, in which case the liquid
is poured out and a new solution made, and the sediment
thrown away.  A brush made of  wire points accompanies
the instrument to clean the zinc.   The brighter (cleaner)
the zinc is kept the greater the-power, other things being
equal.   The  zinc cylinder should be left in the  solution
only while the application is made, as it soon becomes coat-
ed.  The solution may remain in the copper  vessel any
time, if  it is necessary, as it will not act upon it. 
DIRECTIONS
                    FOR USING

THE ELECTRO-GALVANOMETER,

    AND THE MODE OF APPLYING IT TO THE RELIEF AND
                REMOVAL OF DISEASE.
  In using this instrument for the first time, it is always
advisable to begin with a power that is barely perceptible,
and not increase its strength until after the lapse of two
or three minutes :  and continue this mode until the patient
is in receipt of a power of the Galvanic fluid sufficient to
excite an agreeable sensation only, for when used beyond
this, it is not only injurious to the patient then, but all
his subsequent treatment will be impaired  by the injudi-
cious use of the instrument at its first onset, and  by its
still more injudicious manipulation.
  In all cases, it will be well that  the hands of the opera-
tor  and  patient, prior to  commencing  with the instru-
ment, should  be moistened by means of a piece of sponge
with either Water, Milk and Water, Alcohol or Cologne.
The two last are the best conductors, and  especially Co-
logne-water.   A  moments  reflection will  convince any
one of the necessity of this preliminary arrangement, from
the fact, that a dry  skin, and especially  a  hard, horny
skin, are very bad conductors.  To produce general in-
fluence  on the system, the  current may be passed  con-
veniently through  the body,  by grasping  the handles,
previously moistened, in both hands.  The sensation will
be found stronger in one  hand than  the other.  This is
dependent, altogether, on the direction of the current.
                         14 
REMOVAL OF  DISEASES.
15
The hand by which it leaves the system, will be found to
be the most affected ;  the current passing, or flowing, in
the direction of the great  sympathetic nerve, and by then
branching  off to  its numerous tributaries, renders  the
patient sensible to the slightest modification of power.  In
the language of another, " It may be useful sometimes to
operate with a knowledge of the direction of the current;
and this  can, perhaps, be most easily obtained by observ-
ing the  sensation.   The  back of the neck is a great ner-
vous  centre;  and, as a general rule, it  may  be well to
allow the current to enter there, and flow in the course of
the nerves, to the part of the body which may be selected
as the place of exit."^ - In applying it to any particular
part of the body, my practice, always, has been to insu-
late myself, by holding the wooden part  of the handle, or
handles,  as I would were I holding  a  pen in  the act of
writing ;  experience having taught me, that the larger the
application of surfaoe to  any one  point, the more benefi-
cial will  be the result.   Hence, a small piece of very soft
and fine  sponge wound round, or fastened on the  points or
ends of the handles, and  held in the  manner described,
and applied over a diseased  surface, will  be found admira-
bly to answer the desired purpose; or,  the sponge pre-
viously moistened, may be passed through the wire only.
The last two methods are the most delicate and eligible
forms in  which the Galvanic fluid  can be administered.
   In  using the " Electro-Galvanometer," it is  very im-
portant  that the  operator should  understand what kind
of a shock he is going to give his patient, for there is a
vast amount of difference in the  shocks employed, both
as to quality and quantity.   A  shock may be  given in
quick and  rapid succession,  and so strong as  to  produce
numbness  and muscular contractions;  whilst,  on  the
other hand, a shock may  be given of so mild a nature, as
not only  to be agreeable,  but  that will mildly  arouse  and
stimulate the  system to new and  healthy action.  Of
course all these varieties and gradations, are applicable
to the different conditions of  disease, and the intelligent
operator will readily understand how to  apply the instru-
ment scientifically, that its  results may be beneficial, re- 
16            ELECTRICITY AND GALVANISM.

membering that  the  circulation is always increased  in
rapidity by all the forms of administration, and that this
invariable rule should be adopted, viz:  to cause the gal-
vanic current, from the Electro-Galvanometer, to pass from
the nervous centre, to the surface of the body, near the organ
to be acted upon. 
     DISEASES SUCCESSFULLY  TREATED
                  DY THE  USE  OF

THE  ELECTRO-GALVANOMETER.
    AMAUROSIS, OR DIMNESS  OF  VISION.
  Apply the positive pole to the back of the neck and the
other to the temples.  Continue this treatment for four or
five minutes and then apply both poles immediately over the
eyes, on the eye-lids, under a moderate power, increasing
it gradually according to circumstances.

        APHONIA, OR LOSS OF  VOICE.
  Apply the positive pole,  previously covered with a
piece of soft sponge, on the surface, and near the middle
of the throat, and the negative to each side of the throat,
moistening the parts first with Cologne.

            ASTHMA, OR PHTHISIC.
  Apply the Female Guardian, reversed, putting the wires
into the brass cups marked A. and B,  and  into the cups
on the Female Guardian.  The Galvanic current instantly
passes through the chest, causing it to expand, and relieves
the loaded  vessels, thereby giving immediate  relief, and
if applied daily,  will, in a  short time, permanently cure
cases of long  standing,  provided, tliere is no  structural
disease.
  I have had cases under my care where the patient was
apparently  strangling or suffocating by the disease, yet
on the application of the  Electro-Galvanometer  to the
Fem-ile  Guardian,  not fifteen minutes elapsed ere perfect
relief was obtained.
           2* 
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ELECTRICITY  AND GALVANISM.
                     ABSCESS.
  Apply the poles on  each side of the enlargement, for
fifteen  minutes daily, giving  the parts some six or eight
shocks by means of  the  R;up on the top of the instru-
ment.  Five or bixapplicationshwill be found  sufficient to
act effectually on  the absorbents.

  ATROPHIA,  OR NERVOUS  CONSUMPTION.
  Apply the Female Guardian, reversed, under a moderate
power of the instrument, for fifteen minutes, daily,  taking
care that the Guardian covers the surface of the Lungs.

                 AMMENORRHCEA.
  Refer to my treatise  which accompanies the " Female
Guardian."
                   BRONCHITIS.
  Dip a narrow piece of cloth suitable to pass round the
neck, and  not more than two-folds  in thickness, pre-
viously immerse in Cologne-water, and into this fasten
by means of a few stitches, the wires  from the  positive
and  negative  poles.   Continue this treatment daily for
fifteen minutes, using precaution in diet and avoiding ex-
posure to  cold.  Seldom more than  fifteen or  twenty
sittings will be necessary; and if in its  early formation,
two or three sittings will alone effectually eradicate the
disease.
                    BLINDNESS
  FROM  TEMPORARY INFLAMMATION', OR  PARALYSIS OF
                      THE IRIS.
  Apply the positive pole to the right eye, and negative
to the left, covering each eye previously with a  fine piece
of soft sponge, moistened  with a little  milk and water.
After the  lapse  of  five minutes, remove  the poles or
handles, and apply them behind  each ear.  Showering
with cold  water  from a fountain,  like that of Dr. Pow- 
TREATMENT  OF DISEASES.
19
ell's,  of  261 Broadway,  would  be  an  admirable  ad-
juvant.  The expense of such an  instrument is but tri-
fling  indeed, compared to the comfort and  benefit to be
derived from it.

           BRONCHOCELE, OR GOITRE.
  Apply the Electro-Galvanometer the same as for Bron-
chitis.

    BRAIN, CONGESTION AND CONCUSSION.
  Pass a strong current on each side of the spine, alterna-
ting the  treatment with quick and powerful shocks.  Be
very careful in your manipulations how you touch the
brain.  A want  of care in this respect may produce se-
rious  results, and  increase the disease instead  of  lessen-
ing it.  My practice has been, after subjecting the whole
column of the spine to the Galvanic current, to allow  a
rest, or intermission of fifteen minutes.   1 then  take  a
piece  of thin linen cloth, Avell saturated with a strong so-
lution of salt, and water, (ice-water if it  can be  obtained)
and cover the entire head with it.  (The head of course is
either  shaved or the hair cut very close.)  I now pass
shocks, through the head, beginning very moderately, and
gradually increasing  them.   In  this way the elecjtric
fluid stimulates the brain, oppressed as it is by unoxygen-
ated blood, and causes a reaction slowly but surely, along
its hitherto loaded and  turgid vessels.
       CHOR03A, OR ST. VITUS'S DANCE.
  Place the positive pole on the right side of the head,
near the neck, and  the left  on the muscles of the hip,
changing the poles in ten minutes, and  conclude  the sit-
ting by passing  electrical shocks from  the spine to the
base of the neck, and vice versa. 
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ELECTRICITY AND  GALVANISM.
                    CATARACT

               IN ITS EARLY FORMATION.

  The treatment of organic diseases of the eye, by Gal-
vanism, or Electricity, shoxdd be  referred always  to the
hand of a skilful  surgeon.   I  have performed the ope-
ration throe times, and I believe up to the date of  this, I
am the  first Electropathist  in the  United  States that suc-
cessfully employed the use of Galvanism and Electricity in
the removal and final cure of Cataract of the Human Eye.
The first case on which I attempted the removal of Cata-
ract was in the person of Mr. James Garland, aged thirty-
six years, and a resident of the  city of Montreal, Canada
West.   Mr. Garland was transacting some business in the
city of Bangor last May,  1847,  and hearing of my treat-
ment of diseases by Galvanism  and Electricity, he waited
upon  me  to  ascertain  whether there was any hope for
him.  The application was mutually novel, both  on the
part of the patient and myself, and although I had never
performed the operation, I saw no reason why that Gal-
vanism and Electricity, acting as it does on the absorbents,
should  not be  successfully used  in the  removal  of in-
ternal  opacities of the eye, such as those of the crystal-
line lens, <fec.  I determined at once  on  the  operation,
after repeated solicitations on  the part  of  Mr.  G., to
" make the attempt, even if I should not  succeed," as no
ill effects could result from its  use, if after all it should
prove a failure.   Here, then, was  a novel but  deeply in-
teresting experiment.   A capsular-lenticular Cataract of
the left eye, and to be  removed  by Galvanism.
  May 28th,  1847.   I first applied the Galvanic current.
In less than two minutes there  was a breaking up of the
internal canthus—an  excavation  immediately following,
with an expansion and protrusion  of the  Cataract.  The
complaint  of the patient  during  this operation,  which
lasted  barely two minutes, was, that "he felt as if his
head was  in a vice."  Inflammatory action, as a necessa-
ry consequence, immediately followed, accompanied with
intolerance of light, which continued for some  time.  Di- 
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 rected a stream of cold water from a small eye syringe to
 be applied through the day ; to diet himself with a mod-
 erate  but generous  diet,  and  occasionally take a mild
 aperient,  such  as a siedlitz  powder, or a little salts  and
 senna.
   June 10th to  18th.  Daily repeated the application of
 Galvanism.  Vision improving fast.   Dilatation of the pu-
 pil by belladonna, exhibited a few ragged fragments of
 the Cataract still remaining.  This was easily and readily
 removed  by the  needle, to  which was attached a very
 fine wire,  connecting it to my Electro-Galvanometer whilst
 the other  pole was alternately inserted in the nape of the
 patient's neck and inside his mouth.   No unpleasant con-
 sequences ensued ; the pupil instantly assumed its beau-
 tiful jet black appearance and the vision was perfectly re-
 stored, and has remained so  ever since.,

        CHLOROSIS, OR  GREEN SICKNESS.
   See my work which accompanies  the  " Female Guar«
 dian."

          CURVATURE OF  THE SPINE.

   Apply the positive pole to the parajyzed muscles with
a moderate power for the first sitting, afterwards cause a
tension of the muscles, by letting the patient be stretched
over the side of  a chair, with suitable pillows, &c.   Ap-
ply the Battery with its full  power,  alternating the poles
on the paralyzed muscles.   In  proportion as the action
of the paralyzed  muscles becomes increased, the power
of the Battery must  be reduced.  One  month's faithful
work  in this manner will reward the patients  for their
perseverance.

                      CRAMP.

   Pass a Galvanic current of considerable strength through
the part affected, then alternate the treatment by shocks.
Five minutes of  judicious manipulation will relieve  the
severest case. 
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                     COLIC.
  Treatment same as cramp.

      COLDNESS OF  FEET AND  HANDS.
  For the feet, immerse them  in blood-warm water, and
introduce one handle to each  foot-tub.  For the hands,
immerse them in separate bowls of warm water, and insert
the  handles  as  for the feet.   Fifteen minutes for the
whole is long enough.

         CONTRACTION  OF  MUSCLES.
  Treat the same as Curvature of the Spine.  ~
           DEPRESSION  OF  SPIRITS.
  Allow  a moderate power of  the  fluid to circulate
through the system, alternating it with slight shocks.

                   DEAFNESS.
  Pass a current of very moderate power from the posi-
tive pole to the part, or ear affected, and with the nega-
tive pole pass it to the Spine, and into  the patient's hand,
occasionally giving the ear affected a few slight shocks  to
rouse up the auditory nerve.   I keep  the ear moistened
with one  or two drops of cod-liver oil, on a piece of cot-
ton, and keep it in the ear all the time.  Morning and eve-
ning syringe the ear with a glass syringe filled with tepid
milk and water.

DYSMENNORRH03A,  OR  PAINFUL MENSTRU-
                     ATION.
  See my treatise which accompanies the " Female Guar-
dian." 
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                   DYSPEPSIA.
  Apply the Female Guardian reversed.  Nothing  will
afford such sure and permanent relief;  attending at the
same time to diet and cold  bathing.  I usually employ
at the same time the application of both poles on each
side of the spinal column.

                DISEASED  SPINE.

  Treatment same as Curvature of  Spine.
                   EPILEPSY.

  Pass a strong current,—the positive pole being placed
on each side of the first  joint of the neck.  Apply this
for five or ten minutes, and  then change it by placing the
points of both poles on each side of the temples.  Have
the patient immersed in a slipper bath with both handles
inserted under full power of the instrument.
                    GOUT.
Treatment the same as for Cold Feet
     HEMIPLEGIA,  OR HALF-PARALYSIS.

  Same as Palsy or Paralysis.

       HEADACHE,—NERVOUS  OR SICK.

  Apply a  strong current on each side  of  the  spinal
column.  Reverse the power moderately and  apply it to
the temples, followed by a galvanic foot-bath. 
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          INCONTINENCY OF URINE.
  Apply the Female Guardian immediately over the sur*
face of the kidneys.
    LEUCORRHOSA, FLUOR ALBUS, OR THE
                  WHITES.
  See the tnsitise which accompanies the Female Guar-
dian.

                 LUMBAGO.
  Treat the same as Incontinence of Urine.

    LOSS OF MUSCULAR TONE OR POWER.
  Treatment consists in the free application of the Elec-
trical and Galvanic Current, and  m the daily use of an
Electric bath.
 MENSTRUATION,—DIFFICULT,  SUSPENDED,
           PAINFUL, OR PARTIAL.
  See the treatise on Female  Diseases which accompa-
nies the Guardian.
NERVOUS DISEASES  OF EVERY GRADE, AND
                 NUMBNESS.
  Treatment same as that for the loss of Muscular Tone
or Power.
          PALSY AND PARALYSIS.
  These sad diseases will be found to take their origin in
most cases, in a want of healthy action of the  delicate 
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tissue of nerves, of the Cerebellum and the Medulla  0b~
longata.  In some also it arises from a general disordered
condition of the  nerves.   One day feeling a numbness,
accompanied with an indescribable sensation in the slight-
est act  of volition ; the next, a sensitiveness to the touch
amounting  to acute  pain  and  great nervous irritability.
There  are  various  degrees or varieties of Paralysis in
which the Electro-Galvanic Current will  be found to act
with benefit and permanency, and  I cannot do better than
quote from the official report of Dr.  Golding Bird,  assist-
ant physician  to  Guy's Hospital,  London.    Dr. Bird has
done more  to remove the  prejudices of " Old  School
men,"  and compel them to think and act for themselves,
according to the dictates of common sense, than any other
physician either in this  country or England.


1. Cases of partial paralysis, resulting from congestion or other cere-
     bral mischief, admitting of successful treatment. The congestion
     or effusion is removed, but  a more or less palsied state of tome
    part of the  body remains.

   " Oases of this kind are common  enough j and although the
paralysis, in general, slowly disappears  with  the cause of this
cerebral disorder, still  the axiom of'sublata  causa, tollitus ef-
fectus,' does not always apply.   Every now and then, although
the blow has ceased, the braise (if the expression he permitted,)
remains.  Time, friction, change of air, restoration of the  general
health,  strychnia, &c., will, after all, succeed ; but when with
improved general  health, the stimulus  of the electro-magnetic
current be employed, success is much more general and certain.
All that is required here, is to apply one of the conductors, cover-
ed with wet linen, over the trunk of the largest nerve of the part
affected, and to pass the other, similarly covered with linen, over
the region of the palsied muscle, so as to  keep them actively con-
tracting for some minutes.  In recent cases, a single application
will often succeed; in more chronic ones, the remedy may be
continued for weeks, until the paralysis disappears.  One of the
first cases in which I used this remedy, occurred about nine years
ago, in  a gentleman holding  a prominent positiou at the bar.  I
saw him with Mr. Freeman, of Spring Gardens, under whoso
care he was.   This gentleman had palsy of the left side of the
face, the relic of an hemiplegic attack following cerebral conges-
tion, the result  of intense study and anxiety. His cerebral disease
had been cured., his general  health  restored, but the paralyzed
nerves of the face alone refused to resume their functions. The
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ELECTRICITY  AND  GALVANISM.
electro-magnetic current was applied daily, the patient's footman
being  the ' medical electrician,' and in a few weeks he quite re-
covered.

2. Paralysis of muscles supplied by the portio dura following exposure
                            to cold.
   " This form of local paralysis, independent of cerebral mischief,
generally yields i*eadily to treatment.  Cases however, occur, in
which the nerve remains inactive, and the patient walks aboul
for a long time with a distorted face.  The electro-magnetic cur-
rent is here of great value.  I have seen many cases ol this kintl :
one  to whicli  I was recently called resulted from exposure of the
left cheek of a lady for some hours to a current of air from a bro-
ken  window.  She recovered readily from the  accompanying
bronchitis, but was left with her features distorted, being drawn
to the right side.  I at once suggested the current from the appa-
ratus; her maid-servant was the operator, and cured her mistress
in a week.

3. Local paralysis involving the whole or part of a limb from exposure.
                           to cold.
   " This variety resembles the  last, and is probably of a rheuma-
tic character;  although, it must be confessed, it is often a difficult
task to define  the line separating rheumatic  from  some paralytic
affections.  The following is  one of  many I have seen:—The
actuary of one of the large assurance  offices consulted me, with
nearly complete paralysis of motion of the left  arm, sensation
being  pretty  perfect; no  pain whatever in moving the limb.
During a cold winter, he had been in the habit of sitting at his
desk, with the  right side  of his body roasting by a  large  fire,
whilst the left was chilled by blasts of cold air from a frequently
opened door.  Gradually, pain  and stiffness  appeared in the left
arm, but no  swelling.  The pain gradually vanished, and the
limb was left  palsied.v Other remedies proving useless, the elec-
tro-magnetic  current was applied.  I  ordered a conductor to bo
placed over the lower cervical  spinal region, to influence the
origin of the axillary plexus, the other being passed down the arm.
After a few weeks he quite recovered.  This gentleman was his
own operator: he fastened  the spinal conductor in its place by his
neckcloth, and thus had  the right hand at liberty to apply thtj
other.

4. Paralyses affecting one side of the body, or a single limb, the result
                        of exhaustion.
  " These cases are not  unfrequent, and before their nature was
understood, they used to be fearfully mismanaged, the paralysis
being looked  to, rather than the  cause producing it, and deple-
tion  and mercury employed, when nutritious food and stimuluuts
were really indicated.   It often  happens  that these cases are 
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directly traceable to an obvious cause, and then the diagnosis be-
comes easy.  The insidious exhaustion and enervation produced
by excessive lactation is a not an unfrequent cause.   I saw a well
marked case of this kind, five or six years ago, in a patient under
the care of a most excellent and talented practitioner, Mr. Pretty,
now residing in Mornington road.  This lady, a person of weak
frame and strumous diathesis, had become exhausted by nursing
her third infant, and the left arm became gradually palsied as far
as motion was concerned.  A generous diet, weaning the child,
aud the electro-magnetic current, were ordered.   I had lost sight
of thi.s lady until a few days ago,  when  I  was called to see her
sinking from  phthisis.   I then  learnt that, under  the treatment
suggested, the paralysis had soon disappeared.
  " Paralysis, from enervation, has occasionally followed sudden
loss  of  blood  at flooding labours.  I have witnessed complete
hemiphlegia as the result.  A case of this kind I  once saw with
my friend, Mr. Law, of Fiusbury,  who had most properly treated
the poor lady with generous diet  and iron, under  which she did
well.  Whon under this treatment, in spite of the restoration of
the general health, paralysis remains, the electro-magnetic stimu-
lus promises, from what I have seen,  to be of much service.

               5.  Cases of rheumatic paraplegia.

  " To this category I refer cases of rheumatism, affecting chiefly
the  lower extremities, the pain and acute action disappearing,
while more or less complete paraplegia remains.   In these cases,
I have seen the greatest benefit result from electro-magnetism, as
well as from ordinary electricity.   I  have  witnessed so many of
these cases thus treated do well, that I can speak with great con-
fidence of its influence.   One case will suffice as an example.  A
man came last summer into Luke's ward, at Guy's, under my care,
with complete  paralysis of motion of the lower extremities.  He
was totally unable to move his feet or knees, aud was carried into
the ward. This state of things had  followed the  dashing of ice-
cold water on his legs and thighs, whilst sweating profusely.  But
little medicine was ordered for the man, and in less than three
weeks, he, under the use of electro-magnetism, walked about the
ward,  aided  by one crutch and his stick.  In  these cases, one
conductor should be firmly pressed against the sacrum, whilst the
other is placed in a basin of salt and  water, in which the feet are
immersed.


           PALPITATION  OF  THE HEART.

   Place the  positive pole on a piece  of soft sponge, pre-
viously  moistened  with Alcohol or Cologne,  over the
heart, and  the negative pole  opposite to it on the Spine.
Continue this treatment for three or four  sittings,  at pe- 
28          ELECTRICITY AND GALVANISM.

riods varying from  ten to twenty minutes.  After this
let the patient take  an Electric Bath, and on coming out
of the  bath, apply both poles  with  pieces  of  sponge,
attached  to  each side  of the Spine,  its entire length.
Friction with a crash towel may, at times, be  advantage-
ously used.   Every  thing of an exciting  nature must be
scrupulously avoided, and the  strictest attention paid to
the temperature of the  body, and the diet of the patient.

                   PLEURISY.
  Apply  the Female Guardian over the entire surface of
the Lungs,  and give the patient a warm bath, with a
pound of Rock  Salt, dissolved,  (or salt water where it
can be obtained) and insert.the poles of the Electro-Gal-
vanometer under as strong a power as  the patient can
bear.

PROLAPSUS UTERI  AND PROCIDENTIA OF THE
                    UTERUS.
  Refer to my treatise  on the Diseases of Females, ac-
companying the Female Guardian.
RHEUMATISM AND  RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS,
       WHETHER ACUTE OR CHRONIC.
  Treatment the same as that of Pleurisy.
                   SCIATICA.
  Treatment the same as that of Loss of Muscular Tone
or Power.

                   SCROFULA.
  Almost every form and  variety of Scrofula may be
cured, or decidedly benefited, by the alternate use of the 
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Electric, and Sulphur or Medicated Vapor Baths, and
general use of the Electro-Galvanometer.   As a beverage
and mild aperient, a simple preparation of Sarsaparilla,
combined with a seidlitz powder, will be all that will be
necessary.
                 TIC-DOLOREUX.
  Apply the positive pole  to the part affected, and the
negative to the  nape of  the neck, alternating it with fre
quent shocks, and  the Electric-Bath, moraing  and eve
ning, at the  temperature of 75° to 80°.

             TREMENS—DELIRIUM.
  Pass both poles down the Spine  under a strong cur-
rent.  Immerse  the  patient in  an Electrical-Bath (the
temperature of the bath  to be governed by the tempera-
ture of the body.)   In half an hour afterwards  let the
hair be cut  close to the head.  Cover the  head with a
piece  of  thin linen cloth,  previously moistened  with  a
strong solution of Salt and Water.   Apply the positive
pole over every part of the head, keeping the negative
pole stationary on the first .vertebrae or joint  of the neck.
One hour of this treatment will be sufficient  to break up
any case of Delirium Tremens.   As soon as reaction has
taken  place,  let the patient take an anodyne, with a tea-
cup full of strong wormwood tea. Rest and quiet, and
abstinence from all  primary exciting causes, will bring on
a rapid convalescence.
   UTERINE CONVULSIONS AND  DEBILITY.
  Refer to my Treatise, which  accompanies the Female
Guardian.
    WITHERED AND DECAYED LIMBS.
Treatment same as Loss of Muscular Tone and Power.
        3* 
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ELECTRICITY  AND  OALVANISM.
  We have  thus enumerated some of the principal dis-
eases, which are amenable in their treatment to the laws
of Electricity and Galvanism.  There are many others of
equally as serious a character, to which the  mind of the
Electropathist is daily directing itself; and the time  is
not far distant when the " wayfaring man, though a fool,
may not err," for his  path will be lighted  up with the
lamp of truth and  science,  giving to each man, woman
and child, to eat of that bread  and  drink  of  that water
which shall  purify their minds  from error  and  supersti-
tion, elevating them to their true character and standing,
each one wisely using the talent God has given  them for
the welfare  and well-being of his brother.   In the lan-
guage  of another,  " To  study  man  aright,  he must  be
considered,  not as. a  machine,  complete  and  perfect  in
itself, but as a being connected  with external objects, and
influenced  by  external causes," as a  part, in short, of
that creation of which it is happily said, that

      " One common soul
       Inspires, and feeds, and animates the whole."—Drydbn.

  This is the view which a philosopher must take of cre-
ation before he can  comprehend its mysteries:  this is the
only means  by which  he  will be enabled to penetrate into
the secret recesses of Nature ;  and although the posses-
sion of the Promethean fire must ever  be ranked with the
impossibilities  of  the Elixir Vitiae,  and  Philosopher's
Stone, yet Nature, viewed in this light, will open to  us
new themes for our  admiration,  new  wonders for our
amazement, and as  the great scheme of creation becomes
more unfolded  to our view, we shall  exclaim in the im-
passioned language of Byron—

    "Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part
     Of me, and of my soul, as I of them 7" 
CERTIFICATES
FROM  MEDICAL MEN  AND  OTHERS.
  The following are a few among numerous extracts, in
possession  of  the author, of   private  letters  received
from professional gentlemen who have used the Guardian,
and who  have had many and  frequent  opportunities of
testing its  efficacy, and to whom  the author is permitted
to refer.
  From  the late Issachar  Snell,  m.d., of Augusta, Me.,
an eminent Surgeon, and  one of the oldest  practitioners
in the State.
  "It is with pleasure I recommend your Female  Guardian,
for the relief of some of the most prominent diseases which
woman is  called to suffer.  I have carefully and attentively ex-
amined it, and have  given it a very thorough trial in some se-
vere cases of Ammenorrhcea, Dysmennorrhea, and in Prolap-
sus of the  Uterus, (and  they were very obstinate cases), and
the result  has been  that I  have succeeded  in giving relief to
those cases where the Guardian was applied, in a time far be-
yond the possibility  of the like relief being  afforded by the or-
dinary use of medicines.  I consider your  instrument a very
valuable discovery.  Its simplicity of construction, and adapta-
tion  to the various organs of the body, carries with it its own
ingenuity.   The head of every family will be in possession of
one as soon as they learn its utility—as a child may use it with
perfect success—and certainly no injury can  possibly result
from it, even to  the most delicate or fastidious."
  From Dr. Wm.  Henry Bartori, formerly a Teacher of
Medicine, and  Lecturer  on Anatomy and Physiology, in
Montreal, Canada West.
  " I have used your " Female Guardian " in some thirty ca-
ses, and most of them of an aggravated character, and am both
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32
ELECTRICITY  AND  GALVANISM.
surprised and pleased with its beneficial results.  I have given
it to my friend  and colleague, Dr. Gilbert, whose results are
the same.-  I hope you will meet with a cordial reception from
every member of the profession, for they are certainly much
indebted to you for the discovery you have made, and the uses
to which Electricity and Galvanism may be applied."
  Extract of a letter from the' Hon.  David L. D. Garland,
of Virginia.
  " My family (and with them accept of my name,) feel  very
grateful to you  for  the service rendered them by your Guar-
dian.   Under no consideration would  I part with it.  Indeed
we use it among ourselves when  suffering from cold or debili-
ty of the lungs, thus making it answer a double purpose.  Ac-
cept of our best wishes for your welfare.1'
  Extract of a letter from R.  C.  Douglass, Esq., J. P.
of Eastport, Me.

  " Many thanks are due you for your kindness in allowing my
daughter the use of your Guardian.  From a long confinement
to the house, loss of appetite and spirits, arising from irregular-
ities of  her periodical returns, health  has again  returned to
her, and  this without any other aid than that of Mrs. D. to ad-
just the  instrument.  Twenty-four hours  brought  on what
months of family nursing and medical treatment failed  to do.
Again and again we thank you  for your kindness, and wish
you God  speed in your laudable efforts to relieve suffering hu-
manity."
   Extract of a letter from the Rev. Jason Harvey Lee,
late of Manchester, N. H., and now of Madison, Ohio.
  " You remember the time when I saw you at Bangor, I be-
lieve in July last.   I stated  to you the condition  of my eldest
daughter, Marianna.   You proffered  me the use of an instru-
ment you termed your Female Guardian.  I believe I told you 
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that I had but little faith in the use of any remedies.   I had
tried  magnetism  in  every  shape and  form.   Galvanism also
had been brought under my roof in the shape of Rings, Gar-
ters,  Bracelets, Bands, Plasters, and  so  on, ad infinitandum,
but still the object sought for was unobtained.   At this period
(last  June) my eldest daughter, whose  age is nineteen, had
never passed a week for the last six years without being subject
to two and sometimes three fits a week.   As a natural conse-
quence her mind became seriously affected, whilst her physical
powers were nearly, if  not  wholly prostrated.  Sea-bathing,
exercise  on horseback, travelling, change of society, all, all
were  tried, and tried faithfully in their turn, but without any
effect.  Up to this period, there had  never been but once any
appearance  of  her " Catamenia,"  (I believe  that is the term
applied  by physicians to monthly suppressions.)  On my re-
turn to my family in August, I stated  to Mrs  Lee the subject
of my interview with  you, and the remedy you proposed (as
to use your own language,) " would be  infallible."   It was
received  by my wife and daughter with almost as much scep-
ticism as it was by me.   I had determined, however, to adopt
a neutral  line of conduct here. Before, 1 had always urged,
begged, entreated, and pleaded, and then after a fair and hon-
est trial of the means had been used, and a failure accompani-
ed it.  as it had always hitherto done, I was thrown back on my
own reflections, which  were  by no  means of a pleasing  or
cheering character.   In the matter of applying your " Female
Guardian," as you directed  me in your letter,  I determined to
leave  it altogether at the will and discretion of the mother and
daughter.  I gave them your  letter, and related  to them, as
nearly as possible, a verbatim account as received from you, of
its efficacy, &c.  Several days elapsed after this without any
allusion being made to you, or a trial of your instrument, until,
on  the third of last August,  my wife informed me that she
feared from the appearance of  Marianna, that  " she was going
to have a very severe  time of  it."  I instantly suggested  the
trial of your Guardian.   My suggestions were on the point of
being adopted, when  I was alarmed by hearing a shriek, and
my wife calling loudly for me to " come quick, for Marianna
was dying.'"  On my entering the room, I found my daughter
in a very deplorable condition.   She had fallen to the floor in
a fit ;  she was  frothing at the  mouth; her tongue protruded,
and was severely cut by her teeth.  Her limbs were rigid and
stiff, and her breathing  of the  most hurried and laborious char-
acter.  Altogether, she presented the most pitiable and dis-
tressing appearance that can  possibly be imagined. After some 
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ELECTRICITY  AND  GALVANISM.
little labor, we succeeded in fitting the Guardian, and instantly
put it in connexion  with a very poor  Electro Magnetic  Ma-
chine.   The whole power of our little instrument was applied ;
nevertheless, weak as it was, its effects were wonderful.  In
less time than it takes me to write this, the muscles  relaxed
their  rigidity,  the   breathing  became  more  tranquil,  con-
sciousness gradually returned,  and with it the absence of all
those other frightful symptoms  under which she was laboring
but a few minutes before. Encouraged and truly grateful for
the benefit derived from your instrument,  at so critical  a junc-
ture, we determined on still following up  your advice,  and ac-
cordingly put her into an Electrical Bath, as you described to
me in your kind  letter.   The effect of this was  astonishing.
Every pore in the system seemed  to be opened by this novel
mode of administering the Electric fluid.  We allowed  our pa-
tient to remain in the bath about ten  minutes.   She  was by
this  time in a most profuse  perspiration, something that  had
not visited her before for  over two years, even in the hottest of
our summer days.  She  was now put into her bed.  In a few
minutes she fell asleep and slept " as quiet as an infant " until
day-break.   After breakfast T went out to a neighbor of mine
and borrowed from him his Electro-Magnetic Machine, which
was new, and of considerable  more power than mine, deter-
mined  again  to try the Guardian.   On my way  back  to  my
house, I met our family physician, Dr. James Colton, to whom
I stated the occurrences of last evening.  Astonished and de-
lighted, he determined on returning with  me, and witnessing
for himself the effects of  the  application of the Guardian.  At
11 a. m., August 4, 1847, the Female  Guardian was  applied
on my daughter by Dr. Colton, with only a moderate  power, in
the presence of my family and  Esquire Jervis and  his lady,
both of whom were our near neighbors, and who had known
the history of our daughter's case for the last seven years.  In
less than fifteen minutes after the application of the Guardian,
Marianna complained of  a sinking and  pressure, and the next
instant burst out  crying and laughing at  the same  time, and
exclaiming " Thank  God, it is  come ; I shall be well now—I
shall be well now," &e., &c. On inquiry, we found that it was
as she had said, the long pent-up evacuations of Nature had been
set free from their prison, where they had  been " iron-bound,"
as it were, for many a long day, and our dear daughter  had the
prospect before her of returning health.  I did not intend  wri-
ting as much as I  have when I first commenced, but I thought
I could not do justice to my own feelings,  did I say less than 1
have of the invaluable efficacy of your wonderful  invention. A 
CERTIFICATES.
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period of nearly six months has elapsed since the first applica-
tion of the Female Guardian  to  my daughter, during  which
time not the slightest irregularity  has  taken  place; her  fits
have  entirely left her ; the color has  again returned  to  her
cheeks,  and with it an increase daily of health.  I feel it  rny
u>ity to make known these facts to you ere I leave for the " far
west," and  they are at your disposal.   To ask you to accept
of a parent's gratitude and blessing for your kind  assistance,
is all  I can  offer you, except  it be  to add with it our  united
prayers for your health,  happiness and prosperity, and that
every blessing may attend you.
                   Truly yours, in sincerity,
                                  JASON H. LEE,
                      Pastor of the Seventh  Day Church.
   To Dr. C. B. Barrett, Hallowell, Me.
                                    Lowell, Mass:,
                                 •Nov. 1st, 1847.
  " I have seen the letter which the Rev. Mr. Lee  has  ad-
dressed to Dr. Barrett, in relation to his daughter, and her ap-
plication of Dr. Barrett's Female  Guardian.  I have been ac-
quainted with Mr.  Lee and his family for many  years, and not
only can! vouch for the correctness of that gentleman's state-
ment with  regard  to his daughter, but I cheerfully give  my
own testimony of the almost miraculous effects of the " Guar-
dian," after having exhausted every remedy for years back to
produce  what, in  less than twenty-four hours,  the Female
Guardian kindly brought on, and I take this occasion of ex-
pressing my opinion  that  every physician  and every family
should  possess themselves of so cheap, sure and valuable a
remedy,  as it is  applicable as  well in  diseases of the Lungs,
Chest, &c, &c , of the Male, as it is for the use of  the Fe-
male.
                         "JAMES  L.  COLTON,MD."
   Extract of  a letter  from  a lady to  Dr. B., whilst  in
Louisville, Kentucky.
                        " Louisville, October 27th, 1847.
  " I thank you a thousand times for the loan of your Guar-
dian.   A few  minutes application gave me entire relief from
excessive pain, which I always suffer at those times.
                        " Yours truly,            S. W." 
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ELECTRICITY AND GALVANISM.
                 LETTER  FROM

      MR.  DAVID  C.  MOORHEAD,
                  No. 182 Broadway.

                       " New-York, October 10th, 1847.
 "My Dear Sir:
  " I am not willing that you should leave for a distant part of
our country, where your name and fame are perhaps unknown,
without giving you a few lines expressive of the feelings of my
friends  and myself regarding the highly honorable work in
which you  have been so long and successfully engaged.  To
my knowledge you were  tbe first to  introduce the  scientific
practice of  Galvanism in (he  Eastern  States,  some six years
since ;■ the  first who Jfad the moral courage, from a conviction
of right, to abjure the  uncertain  and often  erroneous prin-
ciples with which the old Medical Schools abound, and boldly
to proclaim your  advocacy of Galvanism, and practically  to
demonstrate its blessings and benefits.  The hundreds whom
your skilful exertions have relieved from  protracted suffering,
and  raised  from  the couch of disease from which even hope
had fled, are  witnesses which speak "trumpet tongued" in
your behalf, and no less in commendation  of y .ur  favorite sci-
ence.  In visiting  the West,  at the solicitation of Mr. George
D. Prentice, my own feelings can only express those of your
numerous  friends, who trust that  your skill  in his  case, and
whenever else it may  be called, will meet with  the same hap-
py results which  has so uniformly followed your  professional
career.  With the best wishes for your health and success, be-
lieve me, my  dear sir,
                        Very  sincerely yours,
                                D. C. MOORHEAD.
  Clement B. Barrett, M. D.,
     Tremont House, New-York. 
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