uliarities of some patients. She spoke quite freely and
without constraint. But it was striking how little account
of the condition she had gone through could be obtained
from her. She either turned the questions off by flippant
remarks, or said she did not know. The only information
obtained was that she had been sick since Christmas, felt
like a dummy, that she had lost track of time, and did not
know how she had felt during that period. When asked why
she had not spoken, she said, "I couldn't, I had a jumping
toothache," or she said, "Ask the nurse, she put it down in
the book." Or again she said, "Did you ever get drunk? That
is the way I felt. I felt like dead."

She soon developed a lobar pneumonia and died.

The following typical case of partial stupor is quoted as an example of
delusions appearing only during the onset.

CASE 14.--_Maggie H._ Age: 26. Admitted to the Psychiatric
Institute February 8, 1905.

_F. H._ The father died when 33. The mother was living.
Psychopathic tendencies were denied.

_P. H._ The husband and brother stated that the patient
was natural, capable, rather jolly. She married about a
year before admission and shortly became pregnant. During
the pregnancy she was rather nervous and had various
forebodings, among which were that the child might be born
deformed, or that she would die in childbirth.

The baby was born three weeks before admission. The patient
seemed much worried immediately after the childbirth,
fretted about not having enough milk, was quite concerned
about her husband and did not want him to leave her side.
The brother stated that about this time the patient heard
that the husband was out of work. She worried about this
and told her sister so. She also began to say that her head
was getting queer. On the fifth day after childbirth, a
change came over the patient. She cried and said she was
going to die. She also spoke of poison in the food and
accused the husband of unfaithfulness. The next day she
became silent, "did not seem to want to have anything to do
with anybody," lay in bed, had a tendency to pull the
covers over her head and scarcely ever spoke. But during
this period she continued to look after the baby
faithfully. Sometimes