s in a woman of thirty-eight who, out of curiosity,
had secretly read the works of Pasteur, and who seemed to take
particular pleasure in conning over the causes of death in the
health-reports. Goyard mentions an instance in a Swiss veterinary
surgeon.

Kleptophobia, examples of which have been cited by Cullere, is the fear
of stealing objects in view, and is often the prelude of kleptomania.
The latter disease has gained notoriety in this country, and nearly
every large store has agents to watch the apparently growing number of
kleptomaniacs. These unfortunate persons, not seldom from the highest
classes of society, are unable to combat an intense desire to purloin
articles. Legal proceedings have been instituted against many, and
specialists have been called into court to speak on this question.
Relatives and friends have been known to notify the large stores of the
thieving propensities of such patients.

Le Grande du Saulle has given to the disease in which there is a morbid
doubt about everything done, the name folie de doute. Gray mentions a
case in a patient who would go out of a door, close it, and then come
back, uncertain as to whether he had closed it, close it again, go off
a little way, again feel uncertain as to whether he had closed it
properly, go back again, and so on for many times. Hammond relates the
history of a case in an intelligent man who in undressing for bed would
spend an hour or two determining whether he should first take off his
coat or his shoes. In the morning he would sit for an hour with his
stockings in his hands, unable to determine which he should put on
first.

Syphilophobia is morbid fear of syphilis. Lyssophobia is a fear of
hydrophobia which sometimes assumes all the symptoms of the major
disease, and even produces death. Gelineau, Colin, Berillon, and others
have studied cases. In Berillon's case the patient was an artist, a
woman of brunet complexion, who for six years had been tormented with
the fear of becoming mad, and in whom the symptoms became so intense as
to constitute pseudobydrophobia. At their subsidence she was the victim
of numerous hallucinations which almost drove her to the point of
suicide.

Spermatophobia has been noticed among the ignorant, caused or increased
by inspection of sensational literature, treatises on the subject of
spermatorrhea, etc. Ferre mentions a woman of thirty-six, of intense
religious scruples, who was married at eighteen, and lost