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So far as I remember, my first offer to help anyone outside 

 of my own immediate circle was in the summer of 1891, when I 

 was sent for in haste to baptize a babe before it died, as it was 

 very ill from cholera infantum, and the doctor had "given it up." 

 When I arrived I found the neighbors gathered and the mother 

 holding the babe. They were strangers to me and did not at- 

 tend my church, but their own pastor was out of town. The 

 child was rolling its head violently, and moaning, with every 

 appearance of speedy death, but so restless was it that I felt I 

 could not attempt to baptize it, and instinctively offered to take 

 it and try to quiet it. 



The mother looked at me in amazement, and said it 

 had been rolling its head nearly all day and could not be 

 quieted. She was agitated, and without trying to argue I sim- 

 ply held out my hands and asked to be allowed to try. She 

 placed the babe in my arms, and, putting my left hand under 

 the head, I slipped the right under the clothing and rested it 

 lightly over the bowels. The effect was at once apparent, and 

 the group stood amazed as the child ceased to roll the head, and 

 the expression of its eyes grew more natural. In a few min- 

 utes it was so evidently quiet that I baptized it, and handed it 

 back to its mother. Having a church wedding that evening I 

 could not tarry longer, and yet as soon as I could return I did 

 so, and held the little one over an hour until it had a natural 

 " movement " and gave it back to its mother fully quieted. I 

 did not further treat the child, but it made a good recovery. 



On Sept. 21, 1892, I was busy at a minister's meeting, 

 when Dr. W. called me out to say that Mrs. C. a dear friend 

 and prominent member of our church, was dying, and wanted 

 to see me. I did not want to leave the meeting unless it was 

 necessary, and asked if it would not do for me to go in an hour. 

 He replied " No, I cannot be sure that she will be alive in an 

 hour, and even half an hour from now she may be unconscious. 

 Dr. E. and I have had a consultation and agree that she cannot 

 last much longer, for one lung is filled and the other half, and 

 filling rapidly." (It was a case of double pneumonia.) 



I went at once, and entering the room, sat beside her and 

 said to her, after a pause, "The Master has come and calleth for 

 thee." Looking at me calmly she said "You could bring me 

 no better news," and, placing her hand in mine, she asked me 

 to sing and that her husband and daughter might come in and 

 be with her. Taking her right hand in mine, and, without 

 thought, clasping her wrist with my left, I sat there and sang, 



