Exhibition of Specimens and Gelatine Cast

of paralysis about fourteen days after childbirth, in all probability of embolic or thrombotic origin. The paralysis involved the whole of the right side, leg, arm, and face, along with aphasia, but passed off very soon. In a few weeks it had almost disappeared, and in seven or eight months there was nothing left but aphasic symptoms. Nine months afterwards, however, mental symptoms showed themselves, and she was admitted to Morningside Asylum, where she was very closely observed, kept there for a fortnight or three weeks, and then sent to Larbert, where she recovered from her mental symptoms, but not from the aphasia. About five years ago she was again admitted to Morningside, having been found wandering about the street unable to give an account of herself, and was again carefully observed. Three years ago she had an epileptic fit, and three weeks before admission to Leith Hospital she had headaches and vomiting, and became comatose. She was admitted comatose, showing all the symptoms of a congestive attack so common in these brain cases. The symptoms shown in Morningside Asylum were limited almost entirely to the sensory side of the speech centres. She had paraphasia, i.e., she could speak words, but could not converse intelligibly, used all sorts of words, but not the proper words. Her vocabulary