The restorative effect of the Voltaic current is frequently of benefit in sexual weakness. In functional cases, the current may be applied to the spine--positive pole to mid-dorsal region; negative well painted over lumbar twice daily for ten minutes upon getting up and going to bed. This treatment was adopted in the case of a gentleman, fifty years of age, who consulted me for gradual decrease of sexual power, ending in complete impotence. Six weeks’ treatment resulted, the patient informed me, in the complete restoration of the normal function. Very marked absorbent or resolvent effects are also exerted by the Voltaic current, and are probably chiefly due to its powerful chemical action, for a current of great strength will dissolve or destroy any animal tissue whatever. One application of this chemical action is found in the electrolysis of tumours; another in the coagulation of blood in aneurisms;[18] and a third in the removal or absorption of gouty and rheumatic deposits. [SN: Rheumatic Gout.] In Rheumatic Gout, Dr. Poore has recorded a very successful result from the use of localized galvanization. The disease had existed for three months, but the severity of the pain had much diminished, excepting towards evening, when exacerbations occurred. The wrist was considerably swollen, and absolutely stiff, the hand pronated and could not be supinated, and the hand and fingers were immensely swollen, so as completely to obscure their anatomy, while the fingers were extended, stiff, pale, and cold, and the nutrition of the entire limb impaired. The whole limb, and especially the hand, was thoroughly sponged with the negative pole, the positive being held in the patient’s other hand. After the third application the swelling rapidly subsided, and in about a fortnight the hand, although still stiff, had resumed its natural aspect. The muscles were then faradized and shampooed. [SN: Rheumatic Arthritis.] Rheumatic arthritis with nodosities is best treated by passing as strong a Voltaic current as the patient will submit to through each swollen joint for a few minutes, the direction of the current being frequently changed by the movement of the commutator of the poles. [SN: Muscular Rheumatism.]