dhood was uneventful, so far as known. He came to this country at
the age of four, and at twelve or thirteen years of age began selling
newspapers in the streets of New York. His occupational career since
then has been chiefly that of a steamboat and longshoreman laborer
along the docks of New York City. He said he enlisted in the Navy in
1907 or 1908, was not quite certain as to which year, at San
Francisco, Cal. He served on the U.S.S. _Buffalo_ as coal-passer; was
dishonorably discharged for drunkenness. He then reenlisted and served
as fireman, first class, on the _Milwaukee_ for about three and
one-half years. Says he got along well on the _Milwaukee_, until he
got into his present trouble. He was convicted of sodomy and sentenced
to prison for ten years, January 15, 1911. Patient did not see the
discrepancies in the dates as given by him, but, as stated before, the
history is quite unreliable.

A letter received from the War Department on June 28 requested
identification of J. E. M. for the purpose of detecting whether or not
he is the same man who under the name of Lee deserted from the Army,
January 14, 1909. The photograph accompanying the letter was that of
the patient.

He had measles and mumps during childhood, from which he made good
recoveries. Gonorrhoeal and syphilitic infection were denied.
(Wassermann with the blood-serum negative.) During a bar-room brawl in
Panama he was struck on the head with a table leg and rendered
unconscious for fifteen or sixteen hours. This was some time in 1908.
He thinks there was nothing more than a scalp wound, requiring no
treatment beyond a simple dressing. For about a year after, headaches
were present almost continually, occipital in location and of a
tingling sensation. There was likewise a reduction of tolerance for
alcoholics, since then two glasses of whisky being sufficient to
intoxicate him. He does not know whether there was any change in his
mental make-up or faculties following this injury, as he paid no
attention to this. He commenced to indulge in alcoholics at the age of
eighteen or nineteen. He cannot give a detailed account of the extent,
but, as a rule, he spent all his money not needed for living expenses
for whisky. He would become intoxicated every time he went ashore,
stating that there was nothing else to do and no place to which he
could go. Practice of onanism was denied. He