een likely to have occasioned his malady. He had not suffered
much from Rheumatism, or been subject to pains of the head, or had
ever experienced any sudden seizure which could be referred to
apoplexy or hemiplegia. In this case, every circumstance occurred
which has been mentioned in the preceding history.

CASE II.

The subject of the case which was next noticed was casually met with
in the street. It was a man sixty-two years of age; the greater part
of whose life had been spent as an attendant at a magistrate's office.
He had suffered from the disease about eight or ten years. All the
extremities were considerably agitated, the speech was very much
interrupted, and the body much bowed and shaken. He walked almost
entirely on the fore part of his feet, and would have fallen every
step if he had not been supported by his stick. He described the
disease as having come on very gradually, and as being, according to
his full assurance, the consequence of considerable irregularities in
his mode of living, and particularly of indulgence in spirituous
liquors. He was the inmate of a poor-house of a distant parish, and
being fully assured of the incurable nature of his complaint, declined
making any attempts for relief.

CASE III.

The next case was also noticed casually in the street. The subject of
it was a man of about sixty-five years of age, of a remarkable
athletic frame. The agitation of the limbs, and indeed of the head and
of the whole body, was too vehement to allow it to be designated as
trembling. He was entirely unable to walk; the body being so bowed,
and the head thrown so forward, as to oblige him to go on a continued
run, and to employ his stick every five or six steps to force him more
into an upright posture, by projecting the point of it with great
force against the pavement. He stated, that he had been a sailor, and
attributed his complaints to having been for several months confined
in a Spanish prison, where he had, during the whole period of his
confinement, lain upon the bare damp earth. The disease had here
continued so long, and made such a progress, as to afford little or no
prospect of relief. He besides was a poor mendicant, requiring as well
as the means of medical experiment, those collateral aids which he
could only obtain in an hospital. He was therefore recommended to make
trial if any relief could, in that mode, be yielde