Case 1 .—In May, 1884, I was consulted by A. P., about 30 years of age, a tinsmith. He had been suffering over a year from sciatica. His ailment was of a subacute character, but it was subject at times to aggravation. As a general thing he was able to follow his occupation, though he was never free from pain and constantly limped in his walk. He had been subjected to anti-rheumatic remedies, antiphlogistics, and counter-irritation by the use of fly blisters, liniments and frictions, and at times, for the allaying of acute suffering, morphine by the hypodermic syringe was used. I had ministered to him several times for this ailment without accomplishing a satisfactory result. He came to me the last time to be relieved from the suffering incident to an aggravation of his trouble. I prescribed 1 drop of croton oil made into 2 pills, with the extract of