From the foregoing quotation may be realized the importance which is attached to the electric current in the warm bath. And here let me ask the question: May not the remedial superiority, in many cases, of the mineral water bath over the ordinary warm bath be due mainly, if not solely, to the more abundant generation in the former of electricity? Or rather, is it not very likely that this is so? And if such is the case, it would appear evident that the mineral water bath, the electric properties of which, depending on the chemical changes going on between the gases and salts of the water on the one, and the cutaneous secretions and other constituents of the body on the other hand, are to a great extent beyond our control, must in turn be vastly inferior to a bath where the electric current is under our perfect control, and can be modified in intensity, direction and quantity to meet the individual requirements of every case. And such is the electric bath I am now describing. The second difference between the electric bath and all other methods of applying electricity is, that _the bath is the only method by means of which general electrization can be realized_. In making a distinction in this respect, it becomes necessary for me to advert more especially to a method first introduced to the profession in a systematized and scientific manner by Drs. BEARD and ROCKWELL,[6] and termed by them “General Faradization.” The undoubted good results that have been obtained from this method—for the details of which I refer the reader to the latest work of the authors[7]—have caused it to be extensively adopted by the medical profession, both here and in Europe. It is, however, not with its results that I have to do at present, but with its appellation and true nature. General faradization, so-called, consists of a series of local faradizations, administered during one and the same séance, until the current has alternately been made to impinge upon and traverse the entire or at least a large portion of the body. This cumulative procedure, it is true, approaches general electrization, as represented by the electric bath, more closely than any of the other local methods; yet it is not that which its name would imply, and I do not think it requires argument to make it apparent, that even this procedure differs vastly from the electric (whether galvanic or faradic) bath, where the current at one and the same time impinges directly on every peripheral nerve-end (excepting those of the head and face) and traverses every part of the body, obtaining—both as to reflex and direct effects—as a whole that which the method known as general faradization seeks to obtain by the cumulation of fractional portions. Having thus, I trust, established the individuality of the bath as an electric method, I will without further digression proceed to the consideration of its physiological effects.