ir several
susceptibilities. Some are able to withstand, with apparent impunity, an
amount of these that can not be tolerated by others without great
injury. No one, however, is wholly proof against these unwholesome
agents which are in such common use. The sad results of their excessive
use are seen in thousands of cases of shattered nerves and wasted vigor.
The excessive use of tea and coffee is also a prolific cause of nervous
affections.

Happily, we have now at our command remedies which exercise a most
potent controlling influence over the acquired, morbid appetite for
these narcotics and stimulants. Of course we have to depend, to some
extent, upon the will power of the patient, but where this is not wholly
lost, we have in all our later experience, been able to realize a degree
of success which has been alike gratifying to both physician and
patient.

THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE SPECIALLY EQUIPPED FOR THE
CURE OF NERVOUS AFFECTIONS.

Private institutions, well supplied with the numerous and costly aids to
the work of the specialist treating nervous diseases, are now a
recognized necessity. Physicians and sufferers alike appreciate this
fact.

Public hospitals do not answer this purpose, owing to the fact that they
are more especially intended for the alleviation of the sufferings of
the poor, and the greater part of the work done is in affording relief
from acute diseases and emergencies requiring surgical aid. Attention is
thus detracted from delicate nervous affections and is almost wholly
engrossed in caring for sufferers from other diseases and injuries.
Besides, association with the charity cases that abound in such places
and the evidences of suffering present on every hand, are enough to
prevent all improvement in sensitive and sympathetic invalids.

Perfect equipment is an important part of the battle in the cure of
nervous affections.

ELECTRICITY IN NERVOUS AFFECTIONS.

[Illustration: Fig. 4.
Our large 40 cell Galvano-Faradic Battery with Switch-board.]

Electrical applications, to be beneficial, require, on the part of the
attendant, a technical knowledge of the highest character with costly
apparatus and special appliances. There can be little doubt that
electricity is convertible into nerve force.

[Illustration: Fig. 5.
Our Franklin, or Static Electricity, Machine.]

In treating cases in the Invalids' Hotel, a large variety of batteries,
dynamos and other electrica