1890. The Nancy treatment has attracted so much interest among men of science and members of the medical profession that it seems strange the knowledge of it is almost entirely theoretical. This system was successful on the Continent because it was practices by qualified physicians and surgeons, whose knowledge and experience taught them where the treatment would be likely to succeed, and where it would prove ineffectual. Tuckey here advocates its use not as a universal remedy or as a supplanter of ordinary medical treatment, but as a powerful auxiliary in combating many forms of disease not readily reached by other means.