There are certain forms of paralysis affecting children where the muscles are rigid. Localization of any form of electricity in these rigid muscles is quite useless; but if these cases depend upon adhesions or exudations into the medulla their absorption may possibly be promoted by localizing a Voltaic current in the superior cervical ganglia of the sympathetic; two small conductors, leather, tipped and well-moistened in connection with the poles of a Voltaic battery being applied for four or five minutes to the bottom of the auriculo-maxillary fossæ on both sides. There seems no doubt that such an application causes a dilatation of the blood-vessels of the base of the brain, and is likely therefore to promote absorption. [SN: Traumatic Paralysis.] In all cases of traumatic lesion--as by section of a nerve--the paralysis is atrophic, and the treatment I have recommended in infantile paralysis should be assiduously employed. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, whose experience of military surgery is unrivalled, commences electrical treatment and shampooing within a fortnight of the wound, unless there are special circumstances to contra-indicate it. Lead palsy requires similar treatment; so does, perhaps, the commonest form of peripheral palsy--facial palsy from neuritis of the facial nerve. [SN: Caution necessary in Electrizing Facial Muscles.] In electrizing the facial muscles there is one caution necessary--especially to observe the rule of electrizing the muscles equally--for I have several times met with a contraction resulting from a too energetic Faradization of some individual facial muscle, to the neglect of the group with which it is in correlative action. Such a contraction may sometimes be removed by localizing in it for about five minutes a constant Voltaic current from eight or ten cells; but in the most favourable cases an unnatural expression of countenance will generally persist for a long time, from the non-recovery by the muscles of their perfect “tone,” that quality which imprints upon each face its characteristic features, and which has been called the “Gymnast of the Soul.” [SN: Wasting Palsy.] In that most distressing disease, Cruveilhier’s atrophy or wasting palsy, medication is altogether useless, and our one hope--not invariably a forlorn one--is in electricity. Localized Faradization to the muscles, alternately with Radcliffe’s Positive Charge, together with galvanization of the sympathetic or of the spinal cord, admit of trial. [SN: Hemiplegia.]