zzy, at times trembling when going to
bed at night. Two years later, however, she took up
Christian Science and showed objectively some improvement
in her health, although according to her later accounts she
continued to feel somewhat nervous and fatigable. Her
husband stated that at this time she also began to ponder
much about such questions as the difference between life
and death, what "matter" was, and also studied "grammar"
and "etiquette." According to the patient some five or six
months before admission she began to have peculiar
sensations following intercourse--a feeling of bulging in
the arms, legs and back of the neck. One evening after an
automobile ride there were peculiar sensations on her right
side like "electricity" or as if she were inhaling an
anesthetic. She gasped and thought she was dying. Two
months before her admission she went with her husband and
his family to a summer resort where she felt increasingly
what had always been a trouble to her, namely, the nagging
of this family.

Just before her breakdown, because she went daily to the
Christian Science rooms in order to avoid the family, they
suspected her of immorality and accused her of going to
meet other men. Even her husband began to question her
motive. Retrospectively the patient herself said that she
now felt she was losing her mind and did not wish to talk
to any one. At the time she told her husband that she felt
confused and as if she were guilty of something and being
condemned. Repeatedly she said she knew she was going to
get the family into a lot of trouble. Once she spoke of
suicide, and for a while felt as if she were dying. Finally
she became excited and shouted so much that she was taken
to the _Observation Pavilion_, where she was described as
being restless and noisy, thinking that she was to be
burned up and that she had been in a fire and was afraid to
go back.

_On admission_ she looked weary and seemed drowsy.
Questions had to be repeated impressively before replies
could be obtained, when she would rouse herself out of this
drowsy state. She seemed placid and apathetic. She said
that nothing was the matter, but soon admitted that she had
not been well, first saying that her trou