ers were left
unanswered. (To the questions where she was and how long
she had been here, she replied with "I don't know," but to
questions about who the physician and the nurse were, by
saying "You are a doctor," and "she is a nurse.")

In the general setting just described there occurred at
various times changes in behavior which were as follows: On
the evening of the 27th of January she got out of bed and
walked about with slow restlessness, saying: "They say I am
going to be cut up." On February 1, she was seen for a time
making peculiar slow swimming motions with her hands. Again
on the 3d of February she got out of bed, walked about
slowly, with peculiar steps, as though avoiding stepping on
something. Next day (the 4th) she sat up in bed--again made
at times her peculiar slow swimming motions. She presented
at the same time a peculiar dazed bewildered uneasiness
and, when questioned what was the matter, said: "I am--I
am--at the bottom of the deep--deep water--oh--oh--the
deep--deep--dark water." And when further urged she added
with the same manner, "I can't swim--I don't know--but the
place"--She did not finish but later again muttered "the
deep--deep--dark water." (Do you really think you are in
the water?) "I don't know--my head is so bad."

For the following five days this behavior was repeated
from time to time, when she would sit up and with
bewildered uneasiness make slow swimming motions and mutter
when questioned, "I am in the deep, dark water."

Some other emotional responses in reaction to external
events must still be mentioned. They were rare. On February
1 the patient's daughter came while she was lying
motionless in bed. She slowly extended her hands, tried to
speak, and then her eyes filled with tears. Again, at the
end of the interview of February 3, after she had made a
few replies, she settled down to her usual inactivity and,
when further urged to answer, her eyes filled with tears.

3. From about February 9 to February 24 the condition again
presented a different aspect, inasmuch as while there was
still a marked reduction of activity, she showed this to a
decidedly lesser degree. Moreover, there was no
bewilderment at any time. No resistance, but catalept