the scolding from her father. But nothing was thought of
all this, and it did not interfere with her activity. The
birth was normal. She had no flow, no unfavorable symptoms,
and sat up on the twelfth day. She is said to have appeared
natural mentally.

A week before admission the family returned from the
christening, having left the patient apparently well. They
now found her sitting in her chair, limp, with closed eyes,
giving no answer to questions. Only after about twenty
minutes could she be aroused. After her father had given
her milk with whiskey in it, she claimed he had poisoned
her. In the evening she was bright and lively, singing and
dancing with the others, but in the night she woke up her
husband, seemed frightened, said somebody was in the room
and that he should get a priest as she was going to die.
The husband went to sleep again. The next forenoon the
patient claimed she had been frightened all night and
thought her father was going to kill her husband.

On the second day, while sitting at breakfast, she groped
about for the bread plate for some time and then said she
had been blind for a short time. During the day she had
frequent spells in which she would close her eyes, become
perfectly quiet and difficult to rouse. Sometimes at the
beginning of these spells she would say "I am going." She
was then taken to her aunt and walked there, a distance of
a few blocks. She was there for two days before going to
the Observation Pavilion. In this time she is said to have
been quiet for the most part, often apparently sleeping or
staring. Once she said she was "rather dirty, filthy." Once
she tried to get out of the window, said it was a door and
that she wanted to get out and take a walk. Above all, she
had, in these two days, repeated peculiar seizures which
the aunt and the husband described as follows: When sitting
on a chair she would close her eyes, clench her fists,
pound the side of the chair, get stiff, slide on the floor,
then thrash her arms and legs about and move the head to
and fro. She frothed at the mouth. After the attack, which
lasted a few minutes, she breathed heavily for a while.
Once she wiped off the froth with a handkerchief and gave
the latter to the