It is remarkable that electricity should have been so little used in this country in the diseases of women. [SN: Electricity as an Emmenagogue.] According to Golding Bird, it is the only true emmenagogue that we possess. Be this as it may, all of its forms are serviceable in stimulating the secretions, and may be employed with success in cases of suppression of the catamenia from a torpid condition of the uterine organs. A generalized application will often suffice. Let the patient sit with her feet in tepid salt and water, in which is immersed a wire from one of the poles of an induction instrument in action, while a large sponge from the other pole is held applied to the lumbar region. Strength of current as much as she will bear. Time, ten to fifteen minutes. The application should be made twice daily for the three or four days preceding the usual catamenial period. If this method fails in its object, direct electrization must be resorted to; but Franklinization most often succeeds. On the Continent electricity has been largely employed in the treatment of inertia uteri in the second stage of labour, also in producing premature labour; in the resuscitation of still-born children, and in uterine displacements. [SN: The Advantages of Electrization over Ergot.] We possess other remedies for these conditions, but in labour its advantages over the administration of ergot, include the rapidity and certainty of its action, the exactness with which its dose can be regulated, and the strength and regularity of the contractions which it produces. It admits also of being used in extreme cases in which the power of swallowing has been lost, or where everything is rejected from the stomach, while it never exerts in any way--as ergot is said to do occasionally--any injurious effect upon the new-born child. [SN: Faradization in Post-partum Hæmorrhage.]