d. The amnesia and
the hypalgesia, which the patient manifested on admission, are the two
symptoms which may perhaps be considered as more or less hysterical in
nature. Aside from this, it is difficult to see wherein the psychosis
resembles an hysterical disorder. Another point which should be
mentioned here in passing, and which will be dilated upon later, is the
medico-legal importance of this class of cases. This patient was wanted
for assault and robbery in an adjoining State. Upon his admission to
this institution an inquiry was received from the U. S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia as to the probable duration and course of this
man's disorder, as they had in possession extradition papers from the
authorities of the State in which the crime was committed. It was only
by recognizing the nature of this disorder that we were able to furnish
the authorities with intelligent information concerning the prognosis of
the case, and which the course of the disease corroborated in every
detail. By recognizing the fact that these disorders are consequences of
the criminal act, the possibility of considering the man insane at the
time of the commission of the act is obviated in a large measure.

CASE II.--R. S. C., a white male, age 48 years, who is now serving a
life sentence for murder. One brother and one sister died of
tuberculosis. Another sister and two maternal aunts were insane.
Father alcoholic. Patient has always been regarded as rather sickly.
Had the usual diseases of childhood and has been subject all his
lifetime to frequent headaches. His school career was very irregular
in character and he never advanced beyond the elementary subjects.
Socially, he belonged to a very ordinary stock of frontiersmen and his
chief occupation consisted of farming and certain minor speculations.
He apparently led an honest and more or less industrious life. Married
in 1886, and his conjugal career is uneventful. In March, 1901, he
moved to Addington, Indian Territory. This was a newly-established
frontier town and he had bought, sometime previously, several lots
there, intending to establish himself in the lumber business. Soon
after this he got into some financial difficulty with a town-site
boomer, and finally, in a fit of passion, shot and killed the latter
and wounded a relative of his own. He was admitted to the Government
Hospital for the Insane, December 13, 1901, from the Indian Terri