X.Y., aet.
forty-two, a steady, sober merchant, closely confined by his business, always of excellent habits, with no possible suspicion of syphilis, was seen first in 1894 in a somewhat advanced stage of tabes, but with no optic or gastric disturbances.

His station was very bad, but when once erect and started he could walk without a stick.

Girdle-pains very marked; bowels very constipated; some trouble in emptying bladder; several points of fixed sharp pain; lightning pain occasional and severe, but not frequent.

He was ordered to bed for six weeks.
Galvanism, alternate hot- and cold-water applications to the tender spots, careful massage, and a two-months' course of Brown-Sequard fluid after getting up made a new man of him.

Massage and systematic exercise were kept up together for six months.