There are very few, I think I may almost say not one, of the many disorders classed under the heading of paralysis, in which at some time or other of their progress some form of electrization is not essential to their most successful treatment. Where powerless to cure it will not unfrequently relieve the most distressing symptoms. Cases of functional paralysis from slight pressure are not uncommon, when power may usually be restored by a few Faradizations; but in paralysis from severe central or peripheral lesion progress must of necessity be slow. Such cases, regarded electrically, may be most conveniently considered under the two divisions of atrophic and non-atrophic paralysis. [SN: Atrophic Paralysis.] In the great majority of atrophic cases there will be found abolition or modification of the normal electrical reaction of nerve and muscle, but whether this is so or not, in all cases of loss of power, in which any muscular wasting is visible, the localization of electricity in the wasting muscles is _imperative_, and in some varieties it is the only treatment which will arrest the disease. It is in these latter cases that its early administration is called for, before the degeneration and disappearance of the muscular tissue, and its early and judicious use will not seldom save the sufferer from being left for life with a powerless, or withered and deformed, limb. [SN: Infantile Paralysis.] As an illustration, let us review the progress of a case of essential infantile paralysis, the most common of the paralyses of children; that form in which premonitory symptoms are often absent, or but slight, and where there is no rigidity. Very shortly after its onset, usually within a few days, the limb is found to be colder than its fellow, and its muscles to be rapidly wasting; the final result, if untreated, being the entire disappearance of some of them and the production of deformity. In fact, the larger number of cases of club-foot and analogous distortions are brought about by neglected infantile paralysis, and there is no doubt that by judicious treatment, of which early electrization is the foundation, the majority of them might have been prevented. The leading orthopædic surgeons are fully alive to this fact, but they are powerless, as they are rarely consulted until all the mischief has resulted. [SN: Importance of early Electrical Treatment.] The early recognition and appropriate treatment of these cases must continue in the hands of the family practitioner, and he must decide whether or not they are to continue, as at present is unfortunately too commonly the case, without any serious attempts at restorative treatment until commencing deformity compels attention to them. As soon as the medical attendant is summoned--and this is frequently only because the parents have noticed that the child is lame--he should carefully examine the muscles electrically, and unless there are head symptoms present, and this is very seldom, he should