Epileptic fits have many causes. When due to pressure on the brain from injury to the skull, the remedy is only a surgical one. The chief cause, however, is probably due to uric acid in the blood, .and the fits become a habit of the nervous system. In this class of cases it is merely another manifestation of the same thing that produces sick-headache, asthma, rheumatism, and kindred diseases, although epilepsy is not nearly so common. Wnen one or both parents are troubled with sick-headache, asthma, or rheumatism, and a child has epilepsy, it raises a strong presumption that it is of uric acid origin. In all diseases of this class, but little or no meat should be eaten, and care taken not to eat an excess of starch or sugar. There will be more or less indigestion, which must be treated according to the conditions found. Daily baths and exercise in the open air will be very beneficial. If the patient be weak, the baths should be tepid until cold ones can be borne. Constipation must be avoided, by using fine cereal bran. A glass of water should always be drunk an hour before meals, and at bed time.

A vegetable diet, fresh air, an active skin and bowels, and alkaline waters, will do much for epileptics.