. Meat should
be taken but once a day, and then in very small quantities. The use of
alcoholic liquors and coffee should be avoided, and tea only taken in
small quantities. The bowels should be regulated with Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets and injections, if necessary. A thorough bath should be
taken once or twice a week. If the attacks occur at night, the body
should be sponged before going to bed with tepid water, to which should
be added sufficient tincture or infusion of capsicum, or red-pepper, to
render it stimulating to the skin.

The causes, if they can be determined, should be removed, and those
remedies administered which relieve nervous irritability and cerebral
congestion. If due to worms, the proper remedies should be given; if to
phimosis, the subject should be circumcised; if to pressure on the
brain, from fracture of the skull, trephining should be practiced, and
the depressed bone raised. There are no _specifics_ for this disease;
each individual case must be treated according to the condition
presented. The nostrums advertised extensively over the country as
specifics for this disease, while they may, in some instances, prevent
the attacks for a short time, irritate the stomach, impair digestion,
lower vitality, and permanently injure the system, often rendering the
disease incurable. They deceive the sufferer, leading him to think that
his disease is being cured, until it progresses so far that he is beyond
the reach of any treatment. As a rule, the longer the disease
progresses, the more difficult it is to cure.

Epilepsy has by many physicians been regarded as incurable, but our
extensive experience has convinced us that by an appropriate course of
treatment, the _vast majority_ of cases can be cured. The animal
extracts, or juices, herein more fully described under the head of
treatment for Nervous Exhaustion, have proven curative in some cases
that have resisted other remedies. This treatment requires the personal
attention of a physician skilled in its employment. It is also of first
importance that the extracts be properly made. We have discovered
several new remedies, which undoubtedly exert a powerful curative
influence over this disease, but it is necessary to vary the treatment
so much in different cases, that it would be useless to enter further
into details in this treatise.

SURGICAL TREATMENT. A considerable proportion of those cases of
epilepsy, termed Jacksonian, have been found to b