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of tlieir moveability. The spring of the samc year brought on irregularities of the intestines — causing constipation, altcrnately with diarrboea, —of wliich he had already sutf- ered murli during the preeeding one. In this state Dr. Koestlin, his physician, sent him to Wildbad. Here he first bathed in the springs of the lowest teraperaturc; the discased parts were rubbed with the fine sand deposited on the bottom of the basin, as well, as also with flannels, and the patient was often madc to inhale the balmy air of the moun- tains and the forest. By these united means his general health was greatly improved, yet they were not sufficient to effcct a durable recovery. However, the course ofbathing being repeated for two scasons, in 1838 the last traces of this inveterated coniplaint had disappeared.

The second slage already advances to a half-paralysed state, and but rarely the invalid will overleap it for the third, that of coinplcte paralysis. The Symptoms it shows, are a continuous Sensation of numbedness; the patient will oc- casionally stumble over his own feet, and his gait resembles the strutting of a cock, a cane or a guide become neces- sary appurtenances, and, whcre they are still dispensed with, the patient w’ill reel like a drunken man. With the exception of these signs, the outward deportment uses to be tolerably good, although the digestion, and the action of the intestines gencrally, are disordered. The paralytic in- dividuals of this dass mostly belong to the higher Orders of society, and it is a point deserving of remark, that very few members of the other sex are found amongst them. Middle-aged genticmen are the commonest sufferers from it. The cases of a total eure, after the disease has attained this stage, are of the rarest occurrencc; it remains stationary for a long time, and the strongest remedies rather tend to exhaust the forces of the patient, and thns to hasten the