s, but the
foregoing is sufficient for our purpose.

IMPORTANT.--_Peculiar, numb, dead, aching, or tingling sensations in
the hands, arms, legs or feet, and headache and specks before the eyes
on stooping or reading; also sleeplessness, too sound sleep, and
apprehensive dreams should be watched for, and the moment they appear
danger from Paralysis or Insanity is to be apprehended and proper
treatment at once taken. These symptoms may mean nothing in some cases,
but they are terrible harbingers of ill in others._

A CASE OF INSANITY FROM SELF-ABUSE.--(_Fig. 4._)

The following case, taken _verbatim_ from the Care Book of the Insane
Asylum at Blackwell's Island, will serve as a _type_ of the many to be
found in every hospital for the insane in this country. (_And a terrible
and noteworthy fact is, that according to the recent annual reports of
these institutions, both in this country and Europe, insanity, idiocy
and dementia from Seminal Losses and Sexual Abuses, are increasing from
year to year._)

{Illustration: Fig. 4.
Appearance of James McC----, a few weeks before he died.
(See below.)}

"James McC----, admitted to the Asylum ten days ago. Single, clerk, born
in N.Y. State. Was found on 6th Avenue surrounded by a crowd who were
attracted by his violent and frantic efforts to destroy everything
within his reach. On being arrested and taken to the 29th Precinct
Station House, he was recognized by the Sergeant on duty at the desk
as having been arrested twice before within a week--once for violent
shouting and disturbance in the street, and once for an attempt at
suicide by drowning. As he had attempted his life by hanging the last
time he was locked up, and had afterwards seriously injured himself by
trying to dash his brains out, he was adjudged insane, and a watch set
on him all night. In the morning, when taken before the magistrate, he
was violent and abusive, using the most frightfully obscene and profane
language. There he was held for examination and sent to Bellevue in a
"straight-jacket," which was found to be necessary in order to control
him. From the padded cell there he was sent here.

"Upon examination he is found to be suffering from acute mania,
alternating with periods of intense melancholia in which he invariably
attempts to take his own life. His language when excited exceeds in
obscenity anything ever heard. During the intervals of quiet he is
constantly practicing the vile habit whi