interesting distribution of anmsthesia, a saddle-shaped area over the sacrum stretching down over each buttock on to the posterior aspect of the thighs. The perineum, most of the scrotum, and the skin of the penis near its root were involved in this anesthesia. The backs of the calves and the soles of the feet were also anaesthetic, but there was one part-viz., that almost corresponding to the popliteal spacethat was not affected. There was .absolutely no perception of the passage of the

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... r. The treatment consisted of small doses of iodide of potas-