part, as is often the case, I will place my negative pole there. For example: if I am treating for _nephritis_--inflammation of the kidneys--when I do not perceive any part to be abnormally negative, I manipulate with my positive electrode over the inflamed kidney, having the negative electrode placed at the coccyx--lowest part of the spine. My positive pole repels the positive inflammation from the kidney; or, rather, repels from it that excess of electro-vital fluid which makes it morbidly positive and induces the inflammation, while the negative pole attracts the same towards the coccyx. On its way, it becomes more or less diverted to adjacent nerves; or, if gathered in the healthy part, under the negative pole, it is immediately dispersed by the normal circulation as soon as the electrode is removed. But if I find _a spinal irritation_, say in one or more of the cervical or dorsal vertebræ, and, at the same time, a stomach affected with _chronic dyspepsia_, accompanied with _constipation of bowels_, I will work over the inflamed or irritated spine with my positive pole, because I know from its irritation that there is an excess of electro-vital fluid in the part, making it improperly positive; and, with my negative electrode, I will, at the same time, treat over the stomach, bowels and liver; because I know, from the _inaction_ of these organs, that there is a lack of the vital force--a deficiency of the electro-vital fluid--there, and that, consequently, they are too negative. Adopting this method, I accomplish two objects in the same treatment. _First_, my positive pole, applied to the spinal disease, repels from it the excess of electro-vital fluid which was there doing mischief; and, _second_, my negative pole attracts the same, along with the artificial or inorganic electricity, to the stomach and bowels where it is wanted, since negatives attract positives. Or I wish to rouse to action a _torpid liver_. Now, if I find _inflammation, or enlargement_ of the spleen, as is commonly the case in _chills and fever_, I place the positive pole upon the spleen, at the left side, just below the false ribs, and the negative pole on the liver, which is best reached immediately below the ribs on the right side, and around backward and upward as far as to the spine. The positive pole repels the excess of electro-vitality away from the positive spleen, and so reduces the improper excitement there, while at the same time it rushes, by attraction, to the negative liver, under the negative pole, and makes that more positive, and so more active. In this way, I change the polarization of the parts, and, in so doing, remove the sustaining cause of the disease. You here perceive that I treat a positive part with the positive pole, so as to repel the excess of electro-vitality from it, and thus repress its excessive action; and that I treat a negative part with the negative pole, so as to attract