re happy and holy."

The day after entrance the patient, though in part as
described, had a spell when she kept her eyes closed and
was rigid. Spells like these returned. (About a month after
admission she became completely stuporous.) She prayed at
times, at other times was constrained, or kept her eyes
closed. Her orientation throughout was good. The content of
her psychosis, in addition to the praying attitude, had a
more or less vague religious coloring. Thus she called the
hospital the "House of God." Again, when on one occasion
she had jumped at the window guard and was asked "why?" she
said "holy communion." Again she said she was "Mary, Virgin
Mother." But this religious trend was intermingled with
remarkable elements of another sort. Thus when in order to
study her knowledge of the events after admission, she was
asked what she had done when she was brought into the ward,
she said, "I went into the sanctuary where my bowels moved
and water passed from me." (Why do you call it sanctuary?)
"Because Jesus did the same thing I did."

Possibly vague sexual allusions are also contained in the
following: She said one day to the doctor, "Everything went
wrong last night, good, pure, true and holy doctor, I led
you astray and you were dying last night, may the Almighty
God forgive me, I ought to have died, but I fought it out,
for, if I had died, my mother's soul would not have been
saved in Heaven and from the flames of Hell." Again, "I
will not look at you again, good, pure, holy doctor of the
world." (Why?) "I am afraid I will lead you astray." And
also: "I led James. Peter astray too." It should be added
that she sometimes masturbated rather shamelessly.

She said she heard her mother's voice. (What did she say?)
"Something in the sky for me, angels call for me." (What do
the angels say?) "The name of my good mother in Heaven."
Again she said she had heard her mother the night she came
here. (What did she say?) "It was like a voice--feed the
calf--that means me, I suppose."

Then after a month the stupor became more continuous. She
lay totally inactive for the most part, had to be fed,
soiled herself, drooled saliva, was at times cataleptic,
often rigid. Her limbs became cyanotic.