the patient should rest on a sponge thoroughly saturated with water, and
communicating with the water of the bath, so as to include the
cerebellum in the direct circuit. The last five or ten minutes of the
bath should be devoted to passing the faradic current between the head
electrode and the surface board, this last applied about the genitals,
but chiefly about the perineum, the current to be of sufficient
intensity to contract the perineal muscles. With anaemic patients iron
should be added to the baths. These should be taken at first daily,
later on every other day, then three times a week, and so on until it
becomes apparent that all the good that can be obtained from them has
been obtained--whether this be a perfect cure or only a certain degree
of improvement. Where it is thought requisite, internal medication and
various hygienic measures may be advantageously resorted to as
adjuvants. While these will do no good when employed alone, they may
serve to enhance the effects of the baths.

In the following cases, I will include some where the impotency was not
perfect, where the conditions were merely those of sexual debility. As
there is here merely a difference in degree, it would be superfluous to
separate the two conditions under distinct heads.

CASE XXV.* _Perfect impotency._--Mr. F., from the practice of
Dr. CARO, a robust gentleman, aet. thirty-six, full of muscular
vigor. Had had syphilis, the symptoms of which had disappeared
under Dr. C.'s treatment. For two years the power of erection as
well as sexual appetite had become extinct--if we except an
occasional imperfect spontaneous erection on waking up in the
morning, and even this was of rare occurrence. Ordinary
medication proving inadequate, Dr. C. sent patient to take
electric baths. From March 7th to July 16th, Mr. F. used the
baths, averaging about two weekly. He was then, and still
remains, perfectly restored.

CASE XXVI. _Perfect impotency._ A. E. K., aet. 23, commercial
traveler, applied to me for treatment in the spring of 1873. His
general health was very good. He had masturbated but little. Had
been in full possession of his sexual power until almost
twenty-two years of age, when he found that, without assignable
cause, he had lost the power of erection. His general condition
being, as far as discoverable, perfect in every respect, I
instituted a local electrical t