temporarily cured by an attack of acute rheumatism.
Thorington of Philadelphia has seen a paroxysm of epilepsy induced by
the instillation of atropia in the eye of a child nearly cured of the
malady. It was supposed that the child was terrified on awakening and
finding its vision suddenly diminished, and that the convulsions were
directly due to the emotional disturbance. Orwin describes epilepsy
from prolonged lactation, and instances of ovarian and uterine epilepsy
are quite common.

There is a peculiar case of running epilepsy recorded. The patient was
a workman who would be suddenly seized with a paroxysm, and
unconsciously run some distance at full speed. On one occasion he ran
from Peterborough to Whittlesey, where he was stopped and brought back.
Once he ran into a pit containing six feet of water, from which he was
rescued. Yeo says that sexual intercourse occasionally induces
epilepsy, and relates a case in which a severe epileptic fit terminated
fatally three days after the seizure, which occurred on the nuptial
night.

Drake reports the case of a man who was wounded in the War of 1812,
near Baltimore, the ball passing along the left ear and temple so close
as to graze the skin. Eighteen years after the accident he suffered
with pain in the left ear and temple, accompanied by epileptic fits and
partial amnesia, together with an entire loss of power of remembering
proper names and applying them to the objects to which they belonged.
He would, for instance, invariably write Kentucky for Louisville.
Beirne records the case of a dangerous lunatic, an epileptic, who was
attacked by a fellow-inmate and sustained an extensive fracture of the
right parietal bone, with great hemorrhage, followed by coma. Strange
to say, after the accident he recovered his intellect, and was cured of
his epileptic attacks, but for six years he was a paralytic from the
hips down.

The Dancing Mania.--Chorea has appeared in various epidemic forms under
the names of St. Vitus's dance, St. Guy's dance, St. Anthony's dance,
choromania, tanzplage, orchestromania, dance of St. Modesti or St.
John, the dancing mania, etc.; although these various functional
phenomena of the nervous system have been called chorea, they bear very
little resemblance to what, at the present day, is called by this name.
The epidemic form appeared about 1374, although Hecker claims that, at
that time, it was no new thing. Assemblages of men and women were seen
at