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]20 CASEH ILLUSTRATING TEE TREATMENT.
less waddling gait. No regurgitation of food had occurred since
she came under my treatment.
’hdy IQth. The patient had again been treated four times.
On the 14th she walked a considerable part of the way to the
clinic without help, and also walked up three flights of stairs,
whereas previously she had to be carried up. Her voice had
lost the nasal accent, and the general appearance was greatly
improA’-ed.
July 2Srd. Treated three times since last report. During the
last few days she had experienced some pain in the ankles and
knees, because she had passed a good deal of time out of doors.
She had also felt a prickling sensation in the throat towards the
ears. By the above date these symptoms had disappeared. She
could turn round without staggering, and walked well.
Aug. 2nd. The patient was treated three times during the
preceding week, and on this occasion she had walked unassisted
from her home to the clinic, and back again,—in all about an
English mile and a qiiarter. She had regained her strength, and
made all the movements well. Those at the ankle and knee-
joint were executed with considerable force. She could stand
quite steady with her eyes closed. She both looked and felt
perfectly well, and could now be considered restored to health.
The patient had no treatment during the week following the
2nd August, as I was away from Leipsic. She came again, and
was treated on the 9th, the 12th, and for the last time on the
16 th, when she was dismissed as cured.
The patellar reflex had not returned, but, according to Dr.
Moebius’s experience, this generally does not appear until some
time after the restoration of the muscular power.
On each occasion the patient was treated from half an hour to
three-quarters of an hour.
From advices which I received up to the end of 1887, I was
glad to learn that the patient continued in perfect health.
Trecttmeni.—Each day of treatment I gave her the shakings
for the throat (figs. 20-23) with frictions over the facial nerve;
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