DYSPEPSIA.
The remedies for this disease are unfortunately so numerous, there is so much temptation to try another where one remedy has failed, that it is seldom or never that an uncomplicated case of dyspepsia applies for electrical treatment. As a rule, the disease that furnishes cause for referring a case to the specialist, is some nervous trouble secondary to the dyspepsia.
In regard to the influence of electric baths on dyspeptic conditions, whether complicated or not, I can however speak unqualifiedly in their favor. I know of no one other remedy that can at all approach them in this respect. Whatever the secondary or other troubles of patients, any co-existing dyspepsia was in every instance either cured or greatly ameliorated. The improvement usually begins at once—after the first or second bath, and continues steadily. As I have not had occasion to treat by means of electric baths any uncomplicated cases of dyspepsia, I can adduce none. I may safely claim however for the baths a reliability and bespeak for them a confidence that I might claim or bespeak for no other remedy or plan of treatment whatsoever—assertions which would appear rash and venturesome, had I not at my command abundant clinical evidence to warrant my making them.