A Lecture on Myopathy and a Distal Form: Delivered at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic

Physician to the Hlospital. IN the last lecture I gave here, I considered the various maladies that depend on defective vitality, on the imperfect vital endurance of the tissues which causes their nutrition to fail, generally early in life, sometimes later. I suggested that this decay, which results from defect of life, might be called "abiotrophy," and the word has been welcomed as con- venient and useful. I illustrated the condition, as some of