eted as some evidence of
persecution, of prejudice, etc. The course of their disorder shows so
much evidence of this psychogenetic character that it is impossible to
think that we are dealing with a psychosis which apparently has no
relation to the situation at hand. Every symptom which they manifest
can be traced to some definite cause and can be clearly explained as
being of the nature of a reaction, of a motivated expression to a
definite experience. It is, I believe, unnecessary to enter into a
lengthy discussion to show that we are not dealing here with a case of
dementia praecox, but with one of the degenerative psychoses and we will
consider the criminal tendencies of this individual likewise as
expressions of that same degenerative soil which permitted of the
development of the psychosis. On July 17, 1911, the patient was returned
to the penitentiary to serve out the remainder of his sentence.

CASE III.--P. F., alias H., white male, aged 42. Admitted to the
Government Hospital for the Insane, March 11, 1910.

Father is a chronic alcoholic; one brother a wanderer, has not been
heard from for twenty years; one sister a suicide; one sister left
home at the age of eighteen and has not been heard from since.

Patient was born in England in 1868. Was a healthy child as far as he
knows; no history of spasms or convulsions. Talked and walked at the
usual age. Of the diseases of childhood he had whooping cough, measles
and scarlet fever, from which he apparently made good recoveries.
Entered school at the age of seven; attended irregularly until he was
twelve years old. After leaving school he made an attempt at learning
a trade and worked as apprentice for some time. At fifteen he
endeavored to enlist in the British Navy, but was rejected on account
of palpitation of the heart. In 1884, at the age of sixteen, he joined
the Royal Marines; soon found this to be disagreeable to his tastes,
and wanting to secure his discharge, he stole a suit of clothes off a
dummy with the avowed purpose of being discharged for the offense.
Was arrested, plead guilty, and served a sentence of one month. In
1886, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Royal Fusileers and
deserted therefrom about a month later. He then reenlisted in the
eighteenth Royal Irish Fusileers, shortly after deserted, and then
gave himself up; was court-martialed, dishonorably discharged, and
given a sentence of s