A. T., a male patient, æt. 32, ‘unmarried, and by occupation a labourer, deaf and dumb, was admitted into the Colney Hatch Asylum on the 7th of January, 1853; having been subject to epilepsy from childhood, the convulsive paroxysms, of late years, having been succeeded by tendency to dangerous violence. He was of medium stature, of robust make, the osseous and muscular systems, as is generally the case with epileptics, well developed; the neck short and chest broad.