He was ingeniously fed by esophageal tubes and rectal enemata; in three weeks speech and deglutition were restored.

Shortly afterward the esophageal tube was removed and recovery was virtually complete.

Little mentions an extraordinary case of a woman of thirty-six who was discharged from Garland's asylum, where she had been an inmate for three months.

This unfortunate woman had attempted suicide by self-decapitation from behind forward.

She was found, knife in hand, with a huge wound in the back of the neck and her head bobbing about in a ghastly manner.