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gives me no truce or rest, and concerning which I have con- 

 sulted all the specialists in the world." He traveled in this way 

 through Poland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, England, and other 

 countries. 



At last the fame of the school of the Salpetriere drew Moses to 

 Paris during the year 1892. He made his appearance in a shabby 

 costume, wearing a long black frock-coat, worn and patched. His 

 mien was that of a Polish Jew. The thin face, with hollow fea- 

 tures, was buried in a full, untrimmed beard, curling at the sides ; 

 the thick hair fell over his ears and upon the nape of his neck 

 in greasy ringlets ; his high, round forehead was crossed by deep 

 wrinkles ; his heavy eyebrows came together over the nose with 

 two very marked folds, which gave the physiognomy an expres- 

 sion of pain and attention ; his long, hooked nose hung over 

 thick lips; a deep wrinkle separated it from his cheeks, and 



was so mobile that one 

 never knew whether 

 he was going to laugh 

 or cry. He was ac- 

 quainted with Eng- 

 lish, Turkish, Rus- 

 sian, and Hebrew, but 

 generally spoke Ger- 

 man. When he was 

 admitted into M. 

 Charcot's office, he be- 

 gan a long story of 

 his troubles, and drew 

 out a detailed list of 

 the symptoms he felt, 

 and began to read it. 

 At times he would 

 describe his suffer- 

 ings with something 

 like enthusiasm ; then 

 he would suddenly 

 break out into an af- 

 fecting lamentation 

 over them. When a 

 course of treatment 

 was suggested to him, 



he assumed an air of attention ; then, gradually, a smile would light 

 up his face, and he would shake his head with a skeptical air, say- 

 ing that he had tried all that with no success. Moses stayed a year in 

 Paris, receiving electrical treatment ; then, finding that of not much 

 effect, he went away in search of a cure that could not be found. 



FIG. 4. MOSER B , OR MOSES, AN ISRAELITE, NEURO- 

 PATHIC WANDERER. 



