The symptoms which attend the excessive or prolonged drinking of absinth are extremely revolting. The effects which the patient undergoes are perhaps more pronounced than in the case of addiction to the use of alcohol, opium, or cocain. The physical and mental deterioration goes on much more quickly in the case of absinth poisoning than in the case of the use of alcohol, and the disease maintains its characteristic symptoms, which are marked principally by epileptoid attacks, and by delerium and hallucinations, followed by specific paralysis of the lower extremities. Absinth is regarded as the most injurious and dangerous of the alcoholic concoctions which are commonly used as a drink among the people.