Perhaps a reason for this difference of opinion may be found in its different effects upon individual patients; but I see few in whom I do not find electricity in one or another form helpful.

For pains I order the galvanic current through the affected nerves as strong as the man is able to bear.

If after a few days of this the pains are unchanged, a rapidly interrupted faradic current is tried, and failing to do good with this, I use light cauterization or a series of small blisters to the spine at the point of exit of the painful nerves.

Galvanization of the bladder with an intravesical electrode is sometimes of service to strengthen its capacity for contraction.

Faradism is applied in the form just described, using a wire brush as an electrode to the areas of numbness and anaesthesia.