CASE XVIII. _Paralysis from insolation._ Mr. P., proof-reader aet. about 40, had suffered for some time from sub-paraplegia, the result of insolation. He was sent to take baths in May, 1874, by his physician, Dr. SCHIRMER. Electro-balneological treatment in this case met with no success. CASE XIX. _Lead paralysis._ Mr. M., aet. about 35, painter, was referred to me for treatment May 15th, 1874, by Dr. MOHN. The extensors of one (I believe it was the right) arm were paralyzed. The characteristic blue line about the gums was clearly defined. I ordered an electric bath daily. The descending galvanic current was used for twenty minutes each bath. From half to one ounce of iodide of potassium was added to each bath. The blue line became less distinct from day to day, until, after eleven baths, it had entirely disappeared. The object for which I had ordered the baths having now been accomplished, I treated the affected muscles with the faradic current. A short course of this treatment sufficed to remove the paralysis from all but one finger (it was either the middle or ring finger), the extensors of which had probably undergone fatty degeneration. NEURALGIÆ. The great variety of causes that may give rise to neuralgia, precludes the possibility of any specific for this symptom. In discussing its electro-balneological treatment, I would observe _a primo_ that I cannot, in the light of my personal experience, agree with those who claim for electrical treatment good results in a _majority_ of cases.[16] On the other hand it cannot be denied that, either as a palliative or curative measure, electricity, employed in an appropriate form and manner, is of inestimable value in many cases, and frequently succeeds where all other remedies are of no avail. Where we know the cause of a neuralgia, it is of course comparatively easy for us to determine whether or not electricity promises to avail anything. But even where the nature of the cases appeared to indicate its use, the failures, in my hands at least, have outnumbered the successes. The brilliant results—sometimes almost instantaneous—that we obtain now and then, should not lead us into overlooking our failures. Undoubtedly the circumstance that most of the cases that have come under my observation were of a very obstinate nature, referred to me by other physicians after varied unsuccessful treatment, has much to do with the formation of my views as expressed above, and future experience may perhaps lead me to modify them.