Abstract
Electricity as a therapeutic agent, while quite popular with a few specialists and wealthy practitioners, is employed by the majority of general practitioners with no scientific precision, because of lack of suitable apparatus. The results are poor, for to obtain good results good apparatus is necessary. It is therefore for this reason that electricity is decried by many as a valueless agent, while in reality it is a very valuable means of curing a large number of nervous and muscular affections. The idea prevails among many practitioners that electricty can be administered scientifically only by means of large, stationary and expensive ''machines.'' The price and impossibility of moving the batteries from the office to the bedside of the patient have proven objectionable features, preventing the general introduction and practice of electrotherapeutics. It is perhaps of interest to know that the most renowned specialists in Europe, for example Dr. Erb, who
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