While the Royal Society refused him any honours, and in 1847, ten years after the last paper, rejected another which he sent in, detailing an experimental research on the relation of galvanism to the nervous and muscular tissues, Marshall Hall never ceased his investigations. He did not, however, like some few men of originality, disdain to reply to attacks. He was even anxious to refute any and every mis-statement made about him and his work, his view being: “It would not be truthful in me; and why should I fear to declare the truth?” “I appeal from the first half of the nineteenth century to the second.” “I am as certain of the truth of what I have advanced, as I am of my own existence.” But while his opponents denounced him as irritable and thin-skinned, it is testified of him that his temper was never affected; neither petulance nor gloom clouded his life; he never wrote an anonymous unfavourable review. “Nothing delighted his benevolent heart,” says his widow, “more than to praise others, when he could conscientiously do so; and never can I forget the sparkle of his eye and his pleasant smile when he had written something in favour of any professional brother.” Practice now flowed in upon Dr. Hall. His researches gave him an insight into diseases and disorders of the nervous system which no one had as yet approached. Large numbers of patients came to consult him personally, or sent for him without the intervention of a general practitioner. Dr. Russell Reynolds says that his “New Memoir on the Nervous System,” 1843, described with remarkable ingenuity the mechanism of the convulsive paroxysm, and of many other affections assuming a paroxysmal type. “To Dr. Marshall Hall is due the merit of having rescued the obscure class of convulsive affections from a region of utter unintelligibility. The action of strychnia as a spinal excitant, or, in small doses, as a spinal tonic; the direction—general, regiminal, and medical—of the epileptic patient, in order to avoid all the excitants of convulsive action; the recommendation of tracheotomy in laryngismal epilepsy; and the simple but beautiful ‘Ready Method in Asphyxia,’ were among the later efforts of Dr. Hall’s great genius.... The two prominent features of his treatment were simplicity and perseverance. We have seen numerous cases in which his administration of simple aperients, together with strictly regiminal measures, had wrought extraordinary cures; and we know of previously paraplegic men, now well, who under his direction took strychnia for much longer than a year; and of so-called epileptics who slowly recovered from the most frightful combination of symptoms, while kept by Dr. Hall for sixteen or eighteen months under the influence of mercury.” Even under the heaviest strain of practice he found time to continue his researches, and to publish his experience. In 1845 and 1846 appeared two small volumes of “Practical Observations and Suggestions in Medicine,” in which a great number of