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 of coordination in movement, and by the fourteenth day all muscular signs of nervousness had completely disappeared.

No unusual symptoms developed in this case. The enemas brought away solid matter until the seventeenth day, and thereafter but a small quantity of bilious fluid. Osteopathic manipulation was daily resorted to, and the loss in weight was not remarkable. There were almost no unpleasant symptoms, and for this an outdoor life and an equable disposition and temperament were largely responsible. After a time devoted to judicious exercises, the patient was discharged completely restored to health and with no remaining traces of the nervous disorder of former days. An added benefit was displayed in the fact that, although there had been decided impairment of sight, myopic in character, the patient was able to dispense with lenses six weeks after the beginning of the fast.

The distressing affliction, epilepsy, is a disease symptom that may be traced to the source of all functional disorder, the digestive machinery, and the case of a young woman, 29 years of age, will demonstrate the effect of the fast and its adjuncts upon this disease characteristic. Before entering upon