mething?" or "Do people want
something?" or, when asked why she was here, she said "I
have done damage to the city, didn't I?" (What have you
done?) "I don't know." Or she spoke of people watching her.
When asked the day, she said "Judgment Day," yet she knew
the month. Once when asked what the place was she said,
"This is the hereafter." When asked what had happened at
home, she said: "Voices told me I was to be killed." She
was not clearly oriented, called the place Bellevue, asked
"Isn't this a hospital?" yet again said, "Ward's Island,
where they work." On the day of admission she thought she
came "the day before," but knew she had come in a boat.
When asked her address, she said slowly, "Didn't I live at,
etc.," giving the address correctly. To the physician she
said, "Are you my brother?" And on another occasion, "My
God! You are Charlie" (brother). It was difficult to get
her to eat, and she had to be spoon-fed.

2. Then she became more preoccupied, the restlessness was
much less in evidence, it became necessary to tube-feed
her, she retained her urine, answered a few questions, and
when asked where she was, she said, "Calvary, ain't it?"
(What house?) "Heaven, ain't it?" She still called the
physician by the name of her brother. After a few days this
gave way to a more marked stupor which lasted nearly two
years. This was characterized most frequently by a complete
inactivity. She usually lay or sat motionless, sometimes
with mouth partly open, letting the flies crawl over her
face, gazing in one direction, soiling, wetting, resisting
moderately or markedly any interference, and had to be
tube-fed. But this was not the invariable state. The most
constant feature was her mutism, but even that was a few
times interrupted. Thus, when after a visit from her uncle
(towards the end of July, 1902) she tried to get out of the
window and was prevented, she swore at the nurse. Or in
August, 1902, when she got into another patient's bed and
was taken out, she resisted and said promptly: "I think it
is a damned shame I can't get into my own bed." But this
was the extent of her talk for a year and a half. Nor was
she always totally inactive. In the middle of July, 1902,
she sometimes tried to