A vigorous and very restless man had been seized, more than three days before I saw him, with acute pain and vomiting. The vomiting was copious and persistent. I was shown several basins and pots, some in one room some in another, all containing the usual brown fluid. This man had walked from one room to the other, so that practically he had never been at rest. One might be inclined to criticize the action of his medical adviser in allowing the patient to have so much of his own way; in this, to my thinking, lay his wisdom. The doctor was a man with a sense of humour, and realizing that only the use of sedatives would keep his patient quiet, he instead wisely let him have his way, while keeping a close watch on the symptoms.