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3. Epileptoid Fits, or Hysterical Epilepsy.

4. Cataleptic Fits.

5. Epileptic Fits.

6. Idiotcy.

7. Mania.

8. Death.

My statement, that death is indeed the direct climax of the series, might be proved by several cases which have occurred in my own practice, one only of which I shall relate. Before doing so, I may mention that Dr. James Russell, of Birmingham, has recorded a case in the Medical Times and Gazette, Oct. 31, 1863, in which a male patient, æt. 32, died under his care in the Birmingham General Hospital. Complete paralysis both of sensation and motion in the lower part of the body and lower extremities attacked him after an unusually excessive venereal indulgence. There had been gradual exhaustion for the last twelve or fourteen years, from this cause. There was no attempt at recovery, and he died in four months from the date of the attack.

The case that occurred in my own practice was as follows:——, æt. 19, has been gradually becoming ill since the age of nine; does not look older than the latter age, though the sexual organs are as highly developed as they should be. Has been for many months in a metropolitan hospital suffering from acute headache, but has received no benefit. For two years has been perfectly blind.