IMDiTrfuxA looking man without any postural changes at all. On examining him carefully, however, there were evident stigmata of his condition-a slightly tremulous tongue and lips, a suspicion of too fixed a gaze, and so forth, but everything was minimal. He said that this surprising change had begun within a few days of taking the medicine ordered by. the neurologist; that for the first time for some months he had ceased to have the .feeling of beiing " tied up by his muscles," that he could move them freely, and that, two days before, he had walked ten miles! The prescription containied three ingredients-chloral hydrate, tincture of hyoseyamus, and tincture of belladonna. It is possible.that the good effects may have ariseii from the hyoscyamus, and not from the belladonna. The doses were small, about six minims of each. My previous experience with the latter, however, makes me feel sure that, even in such doses, it is quite capable of producing the result by itself, and of the three ingredients was
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