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Show Application ef Electricity in Cancer. The recent application of electricity to cancer, in England, appears to be a very simple, and if correctly reported, useful operation. The patient is anesthetized, anes-thetized, and the current then passed through tho tumor and all tissues for some distance around it by means of fine insulated needles, so as not to injure in-jure the skin. The effect produced consists in a cessation of growth, gradual disappearance of pain, some shrinking nnd hardening of the tumor and enlarged glands, followed b 4 improved im-proved nutrition and a better state of health; the growth, as a whole, does not disappear, but remains in an inort mass, composed, it is presumed, of fibrous tissue alone. The majority of cases where this treatment has been usod have been those ia which the knife has failed, or in which the disease dis-ease had progressed too far for the knife. |