On July 7tli, 1893, Kali, a Hindu labourer, aged about 27, was admitted to the Monghyr Hospital, with the history that a large bag of salt had fallen on the back of his head. At the time of his admission he had complete paralysis of the muscles of the lower limbs, abdomen and thorax and back. In the upper extremity a very slight pain of flexion of the forearm, and perhaps of pronation, was prac...