The massage and electricity are being gradually discontinued, and the amount of food lessened.
"_November_ 17 .-- Walked down-stairs, and went out for a drive, and henceforth she went out daily in a Bath-chair.

She has increased enormously in size, and looks an entirely different person from the wasted invalid of a few weeks ago.
"On November 26 she went to Brighton quite convalescent, and on December 11 came up of her own accord to see me, drove in a hansom to my house, and returned the same afternoon.

She has since remained perfectly strong and well, and has resumed the duties of life and society.
"A somewhat curious phenomenon in this case, which I am unable to account for, was the formation on the anterior surface of the legs, extending from below the patellae half-way down the tibiae, of two large sacs of thin fluid, containing, I should say, each a pint or more, freely fluctuating, and quite painless.

I left them alone, and they have spontaneously disappeared." "In May, 1880, I saw with Dr.Julius, of Hastings, an unmarried lady, aged thirty-one.

Her history was that she had been in fairly good health until five years ago, when, during her mother's illness, she overtaxed her strength in nursing, since which time she has been a constant invalid, suffering from backache, bearing down, inability to walk, disordered menstruation, and the usual train of uterine symptoms.