the quill may be taken in hand, within two inches of the rod, and held to the part intended.

Quinsy.

THE electric shocks are an effectual and sudden cure for the quinsy. Bring on the shocks a little above the affected part, and pass them down to the lower extremities. If it is done in the first stages, they will break it immediately, by the dilation of the shocks, striking into the suppurated matter.

I have used the shocks frequently on the quinsy, and have ever found gentle shocks to answer the purpose; and the shocks hardly ever need repeating more than twice of three times: ten or fifteen are sufficient for one time. Let the part be covered.

Sore throat, inflammatory sore throat, canker, &c. in the throat and bowels, may all be assisted, and finally cured, by gentle electrifications through the part, and covered warmly.

Vertigo.

VERTIGO, or swimming in the head, proceeds from a redundancy of blood, caused by the over-action of the ascendens aorta. To prevent or cure, let strong shocks be passed from the sides of the neck, quite down to the feet. The shocks will restore an equilibrium of the circulations, and throw off the redundancy from the head. Six or eight pretty strong shocks are generally sufficient to effect this.

Head-ache.

HEAD-ACHE may proceed from several causes: from compression of a part; from irritation of the nerves; from a foul stomach, and from a redundancy, either with or without universal inflammation. When it proceeds from a redundancy, it may be cured as vergo, just mentioned. If it proceeds from compression, it may be helped by passing shocks through the head, to the feet. If it proceeds from irritation of the nerves, it may be helped by giving a few light shocks upon the nerves universally, down the back of the head, to the feet, &c. and repeated once or twice in a week, for six or eight months. This will be as short a time as may be expected, to remove a pain in the head, commonly in the brain and back part of the head, proceeding from nervous irritation. If it proceeds from a foul stomach, a puke is the best remedy.

There is a periodical head-ache, which will commence with the rising sun, and continue till it is past the meridian. This I have several times cured, when it had continued for months, and had become very tedious: indeed, I have never failed to cure the pain in a few hours, by fifteen or twenty pretty strong shocks, from the head to the feet. Sometimes the original pain will be removed; but the patients,

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