Self-poisoning with paracetamol.

Abstract

with the injured joint, or joints, immersed in a suitable bath with a positive electrode unit so that a current of 2-3 milliamperes could be passed. The results were most satisfactory, the treated group returning considerably earlier to full duty than the remainder. Unfortunately this suggestive trial experiment roused no interest or further test or follow-up. All this not 50 years ago but nearer half that. With all the incredible advances in the use of electricity on other fronts in the last 25 years why then in medicine alone has there been not only no advance but retrogression? What is needed is a determined and properly sponsored attack on these claims, routing out and condemning the specious while proving to the satisfaction of the profession the value and field of use of those that survive.-I am, etc., C. B. HEALD Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire Lumbar Disc Problems SIR,-I feel that Mr. A. H. G. Murley (26 August, p. 529) has been unfairly criticized for drawing attention to a common misconception that all leg pain accompanying