ELECTROBOLE HISTORY This medicine is the latest triumph in the whole list of specialties; but some particulars are desirable to show that it should be further known as a very significant Discovery. The English Navy is said to be the Pride of National Glory; and the British Flag (Union Jack) is borne to every clime on every sea and shore; but especially where the grand interests of coxi-aerce and government are es-j tablished. Squadrons of the English Navy are commis-| sioned for years in the " East Indies," and the Staff Sur-I geon is there, constantly liable to encounter the most ma-i lignant infections of climatic poison. It was in the treatment of such cases, that Dr. King first approached the I preparation, of this inimitable medicine. His entire career was marked with proud success in the control of those destructive fevers so prevalent and fatal in all the Indian Seas; and Electrobole was the cumulative result of busy ! practice and long years of laborious research. In his diary, with a memorandum of the original prescription, was found a curious entry with the following words: " I will yet prove this to be the most subtle agent in all chemical Therapeutics." From other hints found elsewhere it was clear that about this time Dr. King had discovered the normal antidote with which he proposed to neutralize the deadly virus so destructive to the bowel tissues in all malignant fevers. But the intelligent reader will see that the most difficult point was yet to be ascertained, and in fact THIS GREAT PROBLEM was not solved until after years of varied and persistent experiment. For the obstinate question must always recur, " How to apply the chemical antidote in a situation so delicate and obscure." Nor can we fairly describe how this was happily accomplished, nor indeed can it be more easily understood than by tracing the Electrobole as it passes on through the alvine organs and tissues. Soon as the medicine touches the coat of the stomach, it is forced with strange speed directly toward and through the pyloric orifice. This action seems only to promote the gastric movements, while the patient enjoys a sense of soothing languor and quickly sinks away in pillowed sleep. It next enters "THE DUODENUM." By this time the Electrobole is presumed to have lost 63