caeum, and in this region there was well-marked tenderness. After being put to bed and treated with hot bottles, poultices, etc., he quickly recovered, but some tenderness over the ceecum remained for a day or two. There was no rise of temperature. Ile left the hospital in four days, well but very weak. The two hospital cases were very alarming, and as eollapsed as though they had been violently kicked over the solar plexus; but in all the abdominal pain was a marked precursor of the attack,

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... the collapse its principal feature; while the severe depression that followed was common to all the four cases, though only in two of them was there any evidence of the bronchial irritation from whiclh so many of our influenza patients have suffered. These cases do, I think, furnislh additional evidence that, as Dr. Graves of Dublin and Dr. Blakiston of Birmingham affirmed long ago, influenza is an affection of the nervous system, with its concomitant derangements in the organs of digestion, circulation, etc., while the seat of incidence of the poison may be determined by at present unknown causes.