case in which the perspiration resembled milk.

Hyperidrosis occurs as a symptom in many nervous diseases, organic and
functional, and its presence is often difficult of explanation. The
following are recent examples: Kustermann reports a case of acute
myelitis in which there was profuse perspiration above the level of the
girdle-sensation and none at all below. Sharkey reports a case of tumor
of the pons varolii and left crus cerebri, in which for months there
was excessive generalized perspiration; it finally disappeared without
treatment. Hutchinson describes the case of a woman of sixty-four who
for four years had been troubled by excessive sweating on the right
side of the face and scalp. At times she was also troubled by an
excessive flow of saliva, but she could not say if it was unilateral.
There was great irritation of the right side of the tongue, and for two
years taste was totally abolished. It was normal at the time of
examination. The author offered no explanation of this case, but the
patient gave a decidedly neurotic history, and the symptoms seem to
point with some degree of probability to hysteria. Pope reports a
peculiar case in which there were daily attacks of neuralgia preceded
by sweating confined to a bald spot on the head. Rockwell reports a
case of unilateral hyperidrosis in a feeble old man which he thought
due to organic affection of the cervical sympathetic.

Dupont has published an account of a curious case of chronic general
hyperidrosis or profuse sweating which lasted upward of six years. The
woman thus affected became pregnant during this time and was happily
delivered of an infant, which she nursed herself. According to Dupont,
this hyperidrosis was independent of any other affection, and after
having been combated fruitlessly by various remedies, yielded at last
to fluid extract of aconitin.

Myrtle relates the case of a man of seventy-seven, who, after some
flying pains and fever, began to sweat profusely and continued to do so
until he died from exhaustion at the end of three months from the onset
of the sweating. Richardson records another case of the same kind.
Crocker quotes the case of a tailor of sixty-five in whom hyperidrosis
had existed for thirty-five years. It was usually confined to the hands
and feet, but when worst affected the whole body. It was absent as long
as he preserved the horizontal posture, but came on directly when he
rose; it was always increased in the s