She has now left with her nurse for Natal, and I have no doubt that she will return from her travels with her cure perfected." "Early in August I was asked to see a lady, aged thirty-seven, with the following history:--'As a girl of sixteen she had a severe neuralgic illness, extending over months: excepting that, she seems to have enjoyed good health until her marriage.

Soon after this she had a miscarriage, and then two subsequent pregnancies, accompanied by albuminuria and the birth of dead children.' 'During gestation I was not surprised at all sorts of nervous affections, attributing them to uraemia.' The next pregnancy terminated in the birth of a living daughter, now nearly three years old; during it she had 'curious nervous symptoms,--_e.g._, her bed flying away with her, temporary blindness, and vaso-motor disturbances.' Subsequently she had several severe shocks from the death of near relatives, and gradually fell into the condition in which she was when I was consulted.

This is difficult to describe, but it was one of confirmed illness of a marked neurotic type.

Among other phenomena she had frequently-recurring attacks of fainting.

'These were not attacks of syncope, but of such general derangement of the balance of the circulation that cerebration was interfered with.