This point of improvement may be reached in three days or a week or may take a fortnight.

Women, as I have before observed, although rarely in America the victims of tabes, when they do have it have far less disturbance of balance than men, and this is to be attributed to their life-long habit of walking without seeing their feet.

I have found in the few cases of ataxia in women that I have seen that they benefited much more quickly by these balance instructions than did men, though their other symptoms were in no way different.
Continuing every day the practice of all the previous lessons, movements are rapidly added as soon as station is better.

A brief list of them follows.

When the exercises grow so numerous as to take overmuch time, the simpler early ones may be omitted.
When the learner is able to stand on one foot, let him slowly raise the other and put it on a marked spot on the edge of a chair.