In a preliminary report, published a year ago, on the malaria treatment of general paralysis,1 it was mentioned that a large proportion of patients gained considerable weight after completing the course of malaria, and that, on the whole, the patients who did especially well in a clinical sense made a somewhat greater eventual gain in weight than the others. Continued observation of these and of additional patients now makes it possible to say something more definite of the further course of the weight curve in these patients, and to deal less tentatively with the question whether this gain in weight, striking as it often is, has any actual importance in prognosis.
The material on which the present observations are based comprises sixty-two patients whose weight has been recorded at weekly intervals for an extended period of time subsequent to the final malarial paroxysm. Of these sixty-two cases, forty-seven have