ension of the
Tour Saint-Jacques, when she believed the door below was closed.
Gelineau quotes the case of a brave young soldier who was believed to
be afraid of nothing, but who was unable to sleep in a room of which
the door was closed.

Astrophobia or astropaphobia is a morbid fear of being struck by
lightning. It was first recognized by Bruck of Westphalia, who knew a
priest who was always in terror when on a country road with an
unobstructed view of the sky, but who was reassured when he was under
the shelter of trees. He was advised by an old physician always to use
an umbrella to obstruct his view of the heavens, and in this way his
journeys were made tranquil. Beard knew an old woman who had suffered
all her life from astrophobia. Her grandmother had presented the same
susceptibility and the same fears. Sometimes she could tell the
approach of a storm by her nervous symptoms. Caligula, Augustus, Henry
III, and other celebrated personages, were overcome with fear during a
storm.

Mysophobia is a mild form of insanity characterized by a dread of the
contact of dirt. It was named by Hammond, whose patient washed her
hands innumerable times a day, so great was the fear of contamination.
These patients make the closest inspection of their toilet, their
eating and drinking utensils, and all their lives are intensely worried
by fear of dirt.

Hematophobia is a horror of blood, which seems to be an instinctive
sentiment in civilized man, but which is unknown among savages. When
the horror is aggravated to such an extent as to cause distressing
symptoms or unconsciousness, it takes the name of hematophobia. There
are many cases on record and nearly every physician has seen one or
more, possibly among his colleagues.

Necrophobia and thanatophobia are allied maladies, one being the fear
of dead bodies and the other the fear of death itself.

Anthropophobia is a symptom of mental disease consisting in fear of
society. Beard, Mitchell, Baillarger, and others have made observations
on this disease. The antithesis of this disease is called monophobia.
Patients are not able to remain by themselves for even the shortest
length of time. This morbid dread of being alone is sometimes so great
that even the presence of an infant is an alleviation. Gelineau cites
an instance in a man of forty-five which was complicated with
agoraphobia.

Bacillophobia is the result of abnormal pondering over bacteriology.
Huchard's case wa