a desideratum of priceless value to those who are
afflicted with diseases of the nervous system, as well as to all others
who need a gentle stimulus to call forth their latent energies and
improve their physical condition.

RECAPITULATION.

Motion, properly transmitted to the human system by mechanical
apparatus, is transformed into other forms of force identical with vital
energy, by which the ordinary processes of the system are greatly
promoted.

It increases animal heat and nervous and muscular power to the normal
standard.

It removes engorgement or local impediments to the circulation.

The electrical induction produced, renders it a most efficacious remedy
for paralysis of all kinds.

It removes interstitial fluids and causes rapid absorption and
disappearance of solid and fluid accumulations.

It is a powerful alterative, or blood-purifier, increasing oxidation and
stimulating excretion.

It diminishes chronic nervous irritability and promotes sleep.

It hardens the flesh by increasing muscular development and improves
digestion and nutrition.

ANIMAL JUICES, OR EXTRACTS.

The use of animal, nerve and gland extracts has proven of surprising
efficiency in the treatment of paralysis and locomotor ataxia. They
furnish a pabulum in concentrated form for the nourishment and
restoration of the weakened nerve cells and fibres.

In the vast majority of cases, we have been able, by the use of these
recently discovered curative agents, when assisted by other means at our
command at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, to arrest the
progress of these nervous affections, hitherto so generally considered
incurable, and bring about restoration of the paralysed functions and a
renewal of lost power.

These comparatively new remedial agents have been very thoroughly tested
by us. Their merits are more fully considered in a preceding chapter of
this treatise, under the head of treatment for Nervous Exhaustion, or
Debility.

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EPILEPSY ("FITS").

Epilepsy, or falling sickness, is a disease which is characterized by
attacks of sudden loss of consciousness, together with convulsive
movements of the muscles. The paroxysms occur at irregular intervals,
the periods between them, in some cases, being only a few minutes or
hours, while in others, several months elapse.

There are two classes of Epilepsy: 1st. The general form, with a
convulsion that