The smaller electrode should cover the motor-point and the larger be used upon an indifferent area.

After the legs are treated, the muscles of the belly and back and loins are gone over systematically, and finally those of the chest and arms.

The face and neck are neglected.

About forty minutes to an hour are needed; but at first a less time is employed.

The general result is to exercise in turn all the external muscles.[25] No such obvious and visible results are seen as we observe after massage, but the thermal changes are much more constant and remarkable, and show at least that we are not dealing with an agent which merely amuses the patient or acts alone through some mysterious influence on the mental status.
A half-hour's treatment of the muscles commonly gives rise to a marked elevation of temperature, which fades away within an hour or two.