Show A CURE curc FOR foit epilepsy ve do not kilow know in what paper le he follon following ing originally appeared but we translate it froni from tile the courier des drs stats ethes unis of this city which lias has evid nily copied it from some oilier journal wi without t mut credit some years ago a it person was crossing one of the public holu bilu dires in the city of oporto when a woman worman near where lie was passing was suddenly attacked with epilepsy dely deiy some come abne one id ill the crowd cried out dover caver jover her face with a black handkerchief 11 another winess of tile the accident untied ulith d ills his black cravat and threw it over the hie face odthe dufren r phosa convulsions all at once ceased as if by magic Toe restoration ivah was so perfect that in a few minutes she was able to get up alone thank those who wiio had relieved her and walk anav without assistance the eyewitness eye ese witness who who related to us the above was sometime simle simie time lime afterward director of a house of industry Incus try in fit oporto bast last year one of the pupils in this establishment named bidal idal nineteen years of age and subject to thib thia disease di seas had a severe attack of it almost under the hie eye of ills ins teacher in one of the later intervals vals of his suffering he lie suddenly recollected the cure that had llad been wrought by the blick cravat it is merel merely y an isolated case said sald lie he to the physician of the establishment 1 I have no great faith fuith in ili ille ilie remedy but it is so s thit we cn at icat leat try it 11 A black cravat was thereupon thrown over young gidale head bead w whose h c se spasms immediately ceased ills his system regaining its normal state of repose as if by enchantment chant ment twenty times limes ili in succession young gidal waa was cured of similar attacks almost instantaneously and his parents took care to ba have bare re a black handkerchief of some description always at hand land tile the patient was not cured but at sl ill events ha he was relieved not only of the ilia pain but from all the dire results that usually attend the progress of this strange disease the tha cravat used in ili the fhe above instances was a silk one Is it the silk that pro produces auces this res result uit Is it tile the color or is it both these causes acting together it is an all easy subject for experiment and t one rie tie that ought lot not to be neglected N Y evening post |