Illusions and frightful fancies. Loquacious delirium, with open eyes and red face; furious delirium. Vivid imagination; exaltation of the mind; increased courage, with stupefaction and dulness. Platina.-Mania, with great pride; with fault-finding; with unchaste talk; trembling and clonic spasms, caused by fright or anger. Delirium, with fear of men, often changing, with overestimation of one's self. After anger, alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death. Horrified by the thought that he would die soon. Illusions; everything around her is very small and everybody inferior to her in body and mind. Pride and overestimation of one's self; looking down with haughtiness on others. She thinks all persons are demons. Everything seems strange and horrible to her. Stramonium.-Mania for light and company; cannot bear to be alone. Strange, absurd ideas; thinks herself tall, double or lying crosswise, one-half of body cut off. Says he converses with spirits; prays fervently; sermonizes. Hallucinations which terrify the patient; sees ghosts; hears voices back of his ear; sees strangers, or imagines animals are jumping sideways out of the ground or running at him. Coma, spasms, later, snoring; unconsciousness; jaw hangs ; hands and feet twitch; eyes roll; pupils dilated; automatic grasping of hands toward nose, ears, etc.; difficult to swallow liquids. Talks all the time, sings, makes verses. Veratrum album.-Talks much about religious things; praying mania, with desire to cut and tear, especially clothes, with lewdness and lascivious talk. Disposed to talk about the faults of others, or silent, but if irritated, scolding, calling names. Curses all night and complains of a stupid feeling, with headache and ptyalism. Thinks himself distinguished; squanders his money. Despair about his position in society; feels very unlucky. Despairs of her salvation, with suppressed catamenia. Dislikes to talk, except in delirium. IRIDO-CYCLITIS. BY T. P. WILSON, M.D., CINCINNATI, O. I HAVE been assigned the duty of presenting you a paper upon the subject of irido-cyclitis. When notification of this first came to me from the honorable chairman of this bureau, I felt strongly disposed to decline the task on the ground that the subject has seemingly but little in it to interest a body like this of general practitioners. I felt, therefore, that it should be relegated to the sectional meeting of this bureau rather than be brought into an open convention of this sort. A more careful survey of the subject has materially changed my opinions in this regard, and I am now convinced that it is one to which every medical man may profitably, and therefore should, turn his attention. Certain portions of the eye are familiar to even the casual observer. To the unaided eye the conjunctiva, the cornea, the iris, the aqueous body and portions of the sclerotic are open to inspection. Only to one trained to using the ophthalmoscope are the vitreous, the choroid, retina, the optic disk and possibly the lens revealed in situ. To both classes of observers it is a source of gratification that under a proper illumination and with needful accessories the parts studied and their condition are clearly and unmistakably apprehensible to the eye. But our subject leads us into an investigation of a portion of the eye in the study of which the skilled ophthalmoscopist has |