That which I have thus observed in the case of epilepsy, and which Dr. Blandford more particularly affirms concerning chronic mental diseases and the large number of neuroses that hover on the verge of insanity, has been most distinctly verified in my experience of the treatment of neuralgia. It is, unfortunately, by no means a frequent occurrence that the sufferer from this malady is inclined to eat largely, but the few patients of this type that I have seen were, in my judgment, distinctly the better for it. Far more common in neuralgia is a disposition of the patient to care little for food, to become nice and dainty, and in particular to develop an aversion--partly sensational and partly the result of morbid fear about indigestion--for special articles of diet. Dr. Radcliffe pointed out the special tendency of neuralgics to neglect all kinds of fat; partly from dislike, and partly because they believe it makes them "bilious;" and I have had many occasions to observe the correctness of this observation. In fact, by the time patients have become sufficiently ill with neuralgia to apply to a consulting physician, they have already, in the great majority of cases, got to reject all fatty foods, and have cut down their total nutriment to a very sufficient standard. Young ladies suffering from migraine are especially apt to mismanage themselves, to a lamentable extent, in this direction: this is natural enough, because the stomach disorder seems to them the origin of the pain, instead of being, as it is, a mere secondary consequence of the neurosis. But it is not only the sufferers from sick-headache in whom we find this tendency to insufficient eating, especially of fat; not to mention that all severe pain usually tends to disorder appetite and make it fastidious, there is nearly always some wiseacre of a friend at hand, ready to suggest that neuralgia is something very like gout, that gout is always aggravated by good living, and, _ergo_, that the patient should be "extremely cautious as to diet;" the end of which is that the poor wretch becomes a half-starved valetudinarian, but, so far from his pain getting better, it steadily becomes worse. I cannot too strongly express the benefits that I have seen accrue, in the most various kinds of neuralgic cases, from persistent efforts to remedy this state of things, and to convert the patient from a valetudinarian to a hearty eater; and I wish particularly to say that this success has always been most marked when I have from the first insisted on fat forming a considerable element of the food. Cod-liver oil is the form in which I much prefer to give it, if this be possible; there can be no mistake about the relatively greater power of this than of any other fatty matter, I believe simply from its great assimilability. But the very cases in which we most urgently desire to give fat are often those in which the patient's fantastic stomach openly