or deleterious ; because to outwear the disease nothing better was found than simply to supply diaphoretics, stimulants, good nursing, etc. Hence a new practice was inevitablea special treatment in response to lately discovered facts. Though medical science had before traced the causation of fever to some derangement of the nervous system, yet Dr. King was still in doubt. Looking further he soon perceived that this derangement was not the initial cause, but purely sympathetic; an alarming quickness sent as it were from head-quartersa pulse hurried on with tidal torrents, to expel the fever germ and redeem the blood from malarial death. There could be doubt no longer. The original taint, however derived, from air or water, finding a " nidus'''' in the very fountains of life; this was the initial cause and must be attacked, exterminated in its remotest hiding place. And since the^ morbific germ is a destructive fermenta poisonyet subject to chemical actionDr. King^ great achievement was to exploit the true Normal Antidote and how to work it / for a full account of which see larger circular. But if such a design was inventive, how adroit the attainment 1 Building the Electrobole in two compartmentsone intended for the stomach and, after this, the other to be slowly discharged along the smaller intestines ; how adroit this contrivance ! A success and a surprise beyond precedent, since the cure is armed with precision and covers the whole alvine tract. Nor is it easy to go wrong ; for, with but little practice, the Patient soon gains the utmost confidence, is expert and ready to cure any Enteric diseasewhen cure is possible. But this fact must be noted here, that Electrobole was first exhibited in the cure of those malignant fevers of the tropics where a deadly miasm, corrupting the blood, soon involves a speedy destruction of the bowel-tissues. What wonder then, if by mere accident this noble cure, long after, were also found to be a sovereign remedy for Hemorrhoids or Piles; a success from first to last, all through, even to the bitter end 1 But the experiment is easy and so sure that no one can twice use Electrobole without knowing that it is the most remarkable specific to be met in a lif e-time ; a peculiar sensationa movement still more surprising, and then a charm so unbelieving as to doubt and even deny the pains of yesterday. These incidents all unite to prove that such a cure is in singular harmony with health and humankind. 70