Among the conditions favorably influenced by electricity were:
a. Trigeminal neuralgia, especially supraorbital. In symptomatic neuralgia, as that complicating a brain tumor or from rheumatism, the treatment is of no avail, but in pure neuralgia, Silex claims that there is no treatment superior to electricity. The anode is placed on the tender point, and the cathode on the neck (Sperling).
b. Fibrillary twitching of the lids which have resisted other methods disappear in a few sittings.
c. Scleritis and episcleritis; in cases where skilful treatment has brought slight or passing improvement, and where one relapse after another incapacitates the patient for years, when the disease is not syphilitic, electricity is of great service.
Reference: Silex. Clinical and experimental observations in electrotherapy in ocular diseases. Arch Ophthalmol. 1902;31:565.
