The _Medical Record_, New York, March 30, 1895, contains the following:--“In a case reported by M. D’Arsonval, a man was struck with a current of four thousand five hundred volts. The current entered at his hand and issued at his back. Half an hour or more elapsed before any attempts at resuscitation were made, but, on artificial respiration being practised on Silvester’s method, recovery took place. Dr. Donnellan reports a case of the passage of a current of one thousand volts through a man, which instantly caused coma, dilated pupils, pallor of the face, and sweating; delirium and tonic, alternating with clonic, spasms followed. The pulse was eighty. The respiration, at first stertorous, passed into the Cheyne-Stokes type. After the injection, first of morphia, and then of strychnia, the patient fell into a deep sleep, from which he awoke convalescent.--_Centralblatt für die medicinischen Wissenschaften._” The apparatus for applying electrical currents, long used by the Humane Society for restoration of the drowned, might with advantage be kept at public mortuaries, for use in cases of apparent death due to other causes, where decomposition has not manifested itself. The Weather Bureau at Washington advises those who are in the neighbourhood of persons struck by lightning to make immediate efforts to restore consciousness, because the effect of lightning is to suspend animation rather than to produce death. Respiration and circulation should be stimulated, and the usual remedies for relief in such cases should be administered for at least an hour before giving up the victim as dead. Dr. Moore Russell Fletcher says:--“When persons without pulse or breathing are found in bed, in the field, or elsewhere, treat them in such manner as will restore from stroke of lightning, paralysis, or suspended animation from catalepsy, trance, or somnambulism, and continue the treatment until resuscitation rewards the exertions, or decomposition is evident.”--_Suspended Animation, pp. 7, 8._ HYPODERMIC INJECTIONS. Mr. E. E. Carpmael, of the Medical Department, Berkeley University, U.S.A., recommends, in the _Morning Post_, London, September 19, 1895, the injection of strychnine in “a supposed corpse;” while “Medicus,” in the _Daily Chronicle_, September 17, 1895, considers that _post-mortems_ “would be to the advantage of the patient, to his relations, to science, and the community at large.” No doubt either of these plans would prevent live sepulture, by killing the cataleptic subject; while “M.R.C.S.,” in _Morning Post_, September 20, says:--“Obviously the simplest and best proof of death is putrefaction--shown chiefly by the discolouration of the abdomen.” [HYPODERMIC INJECTIONS.]