1885.] 
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sneezing, yawning, sleep, sweat, affections of sight, and 
alcoholic stumbling. , 
Observations have also been made upon a numbei 
patients less sensitive, and the results obtained, though less 
decided, were confirmatory. . , , • „ 
A hvsterical patient has been thrown to sleep by placing 
in her hands a bottle of chloral hydrate. A hystero-epileptic 
patient, in the care of M. Dumontpallier, was- sent to sleep 
by the approximation of opium. In M. Charcots waid a 
woman submitted to the contadt of alcohol displayed obsti- 
nate drowsiness, tottering, heaviness of the head, a moderate 
pleasant drunkenness, and then vomiting —symptoms which 
WG Another V hystero-epileptic woman was instantly affedted 
by alcohol, feeling heaviness in the head intense * -oulrdel’s 
and repeated efforts to vomit. A patient in Di. biouaidel s 
ward was affedted by alcohol chiefly in the legs, and could 
^Though s°uch e decided effefts were produced only in a 
small number of cases, we may believe that an mfluenc , 
however slight, may be occasioned in most hystenca 
^authors by no means profess to explain these '‘ almost 
(JStbeor^i ^ W 
of' vibration : and (3) that of radiating nervous foice, 01, 
'^The firsf the 7 ry U ^s ^incapable of accounting for the fadls, 
especLllv for that case where a person presented to the 
parent valerian, believing that it was can haandes The 
results, however, were not those of canthaudes, 
Va The n theory of vibrations, already put forward by M. 
als^°discussed and appropriated to 
schematic representation but not ^ exp ana (q 
rtlh th ^ P hro"is°^?Tvibratory nature, for every- 
th FfnLu;“ y ;-emains a third theory that of radiaUng 
nerve-force, developed by M. 'to f distance 
idea of the exter.orat.or .of the «' weU . kn0Wn phj , 
S e ?aas POW Atob: n o a f hot water radiates heat ; a magnet 
