The avoidance of all excitement and emotional outbreaks and a careful re gard for the general health must be insisted upon.
The systematic use of the galvanic current is the most important element of treatment. The current should be weak, from to 1 '1„, milliamperes, ap plied for a short time (one to three minutes) every other day. The cathode is applied at the angle of the lower jaw, first on one side and then on the other, while the anode is applied at the back of the neck. After ten or fifteen treat ments a steadily-progressing improve ment is noted, which may last for years. The medicinal agents comprise the slowly-increasing use of strophanthus, beginning with 1 drop of the tincture twice daily and increasing to 10. It is especially indicated where the tachy cardia is well pronounced.
Codliver-oil is the best tonic.
The drinking of several pints of pure spring or distilled aerated water daily and a diet of nitrogenous foods mostly are important adjuncts of treatment. William C. Krauss (Buffalo Med. Jour., May, '96).
Good results obtained from the use of the constant galvanic current in the treatment of Basedow's disease. The ex
ophthalmos diminished or disappeared, the general condition improved, and there was diminution of the disordered cardiac innervation and in volume of the hypertrophied thyroid body. Ber tram (Arch. de Ginec., Obst., y Ped., No. 5, '98).
The most useful single remedy for this affection is galvano-faradism, the de scending stabile current being applied so as to include the pneumogastric and _ cervical sympathetic nerves within the circuit. In the cases in which cardiac symptoms predominate sparteine sul phate and picrotoxin, combined perhaps with the sulphates of iron and man ganese, are of value. Roberts Bartholow (Phila. Med. Jour., Apr. 28, 1900).
The other treatments which are occa sionally useful are the thyroid tions, the thymus preparations, and—it is said—the suprarenal extract, all of which should be given in as large doses as can be comfortably borne; cardiac tonics, especially strophanthus, mild diet, and intestinal antiseptics. (See ANIMAL EXTRACTS: THYROID, THYMUS, and