84 THE POPULAR SCIEXCE MONTHLY. 



29th. After three days of Honradez regimen, slight tendency to 

 tremor and sleeplessness, with exceeding dryness of the membrane 

 lining the nose. 



January 1st. Accelerated tendency to tremor and sleeplessness. 

 Went to bed at eleven o'clock, but did not finally lose myself until 

 after the clock struck one ; then wandered off into dream-land instead 

 of dropping to sleep in the normal way. Dreams of a queer, trance- 

 like cast, with occasional starts. (I should interpolate here that I 

 usually fall asleep very quickly after going to bed, and sleep very 

 soundly.) 



4th. Augmented tendency to tremor and sleeplessness, with occa- 

 sional secousses of the limbs. Arras still as benumbed as ever, but 

 with an uncomfortable tendency to jerk. Went to bed at eleven 

 o'clock, but lay awake till after the clock struck three ; then fell into 

 .a fitful but trance-like slumber. 



5th. Came out of my drowse by slow degrees, and breakfasted 

 about ten o'clock. Irritable and peevish. Tried to write after break- 

 fast, but my hand was too shaky. Smoked a pipe of Honradez, which 

 seemed to subdue the tremor. 



7th. Increased tremor and sleeplessness. Went to bed as usual 

 at eleven, but could not sleep. Took an anodyne (bromide of potash) 

 at half-past three o'clock, and slept soundly until eleven the next 

 morning. 



I now increased the ration of Honradez to three-fourths of an ounce 

 per day, with an intensification of the symptoms so rapid and deter- 

 minate as to leave no doubt of their origin. I was wild with nervous- 

 ness, yet could not sleep soundly, and invariably woke up in the morn- 

 ing with a more or less pronounced pain in the region of the corpora 

 striata (across the forehead) shooting downward and backward to 

 the base of the brain ; but the symptoms were still limited to the 

 motor tract (the corpora striata and its connections), and there were 

 no perturbations of the sensory. 



Weighed 121 lbs. 3 oz. when I commenced the experiment, and 120 

 lbs. 2-J- oz. when it was concluded. It should be unnecessary to add 

 that a carefully-regulated dietetic regimen accompanied the experi- 

 ments from beginning to end, securing at once fullness and variety of 

 nutrition. 



11th. Refrained altogether from the use of tobacco. Fell asleep 

 several times during the day. Went to bed at a quarter before 

 eleven, and was asleep before the clock struck. Slept, with occasional 

 whiffs of dream, until half-past eight in the moraing. Continued to 

 abstain for ten days, the nervous system gradually recovering its tone, 

 and the hours of sleep slowly retracting until they fell to a trifle less 

 than eight. An increased craving for food, and relish for it, followed 

 the first day's abstinence, and on the morning of January 12th I ate 



