malady, sent forth, not to kill, but apparently only to punish, its innumerable victims. From the earliest times the ¦ torture must have been well known, for in the Scriptures it is mentioned specially as a scourge to impress the Israelites with a contrite sense of national apostasy. The first and most violent cases, however, are reported among the Philistines, a penalty for misplacing the Ark of the Lord, which they had captured in battle. When no relief could otherwise be found the Jewish doctors and priests were consulted, but only on terms demanding instant, unconditional surrender of the Ark, with cash in five solid lumps of gold, made up in regular Piles of exact size and figure. The details of this transaction are fully stated in the writings of Samuel, first book and fifth chapter, and to the present date they are most interesting to show the strictly mercenary cunning of any mere external cure for Hemorrhoids, or Piles. From all this, too, we may clearly infer that this disorder has ever been considered a grievous mystery, unavoidable, if not incurable. In later times, however, modern research has to some extent ascertained its predisposing causes; still there is no sufficient cure; nothing, hitherto, but uncertain or temporary relief. In Pathology, the Hemorrhoids, or Piles, are commonly classified as " External or Internal," "Blind or Bleeding," "Chronic or Eecent," &c, but all such epithets are very superficial and have no propriety to express the generic distinction which ought to be the prime rule of scientific. definition. Also, as to predisposing causes, "Constipation," "Gross Indulgence of the Appetite," "Tight Lacing," "Drastic Purgatives," &c, have all been quoted, and doubtless there may be some vague presumptive evidence to sustain any or all these suppositions. But since the Hemorrhoids, or Piles, have always been so uncontrollable as to be named among the " Opprobria Medicorum," we may fairly assume that all the learning hitherto on this subject is worth but little. In fact, it must be obvious that with the discovery of the true antidote or cure, not only the false treatment is corrected, but the superficial learning also must be surrendered. To confirm these statements, however, let us refer at once to the circumstances as well as the facts. Let us examine all these in their luminous relation to this grand discovery, the only specific, the long-sought, the infallible and final cure for the Hemorrhoids or Piles. Already the reader is aware that Dr. King had first conceived Electrobole as a depurative cure to exterminate the infusorial germs infesting the smaller intestines. After long years of amazing research, continual practice and varied experiment, he at last perfected this medication. Yet the pinnacle of success was not alone in the progressive cure of all malignant fevers, but it was the significance of a clear record without a single case of relapse. On this point Dr. King always reliedalways insisting that the mephitic taint must be annihilated; otherwise, a relapse would be fatally imminent. Hence it is both natural and easy to understand why this man's peculiar genius should lightly overlook any curative discovery that might be at first so timidly announced from the forecastle. He scouted the rumor as a sailor's yarn, because he had already accepted the general theory of Piles as an " Opprobrium " 67