Unilateral Ascending Paralysis and Unilateral Descending Paralysis.their Clinical Varieties and Their Pathologic Causes

been a sufferer from psoriasis for 18 years, and has tried practically everything in the line of treatment both internal and external, the ay-rays alone excepted. He is firmly convinced that psoriasis is not of parasitic or microbic origin, but is a cutaneous manifestation, due to faulty metabolism, in fact a sort of autointoxication. In sections of most recent psoriatic lesions excised from his own person, he has found a parakeratosis, i. e., a thickening of the horny layer and dilatation of the vessels of the eorium and round cell infiltration surrounding the dilated vessels and the sweat coils. Among other methods he has tried the hypodermic use of arsenic (as Fowler's solution) and found it very painful. At times he can rid himself very readily of the lesions in the course of a week or two by taking 5 grains of bicarbonate of potash 3 times daily; at other times this remedy has no effect. Sometimes Fowler's solution proves beneficial and again it fails, or even aggravates the condition. Thyroid extract has also been tried without any effect. He believes that there is