ng her head raised, and of soiling and
drooling, but could not account for it. She felt stubborn.
She also claimed not to have been hungry and not to have
felt pin pricks.

In regard to ideas which she had, she claimed to be afraid
at first that she would be cut up. She remembered repeated
visions of her father at night, also once of her dead aunt,
who said "Come to me." She thought she was in a cemetery,
all the family were dead, the baby dead. In the beginning,
too, she sometimes heard a priest whom she had known, say
"Be good and God will look after you."

In regard to the later period, she recalled that she got up
in May and felt cross. She did not answer because she did
not want to be bothered. She pushed the baby away because
she did not think it belonged to her, the husband because
she did not like him. (She did not think she was not
married.) She evidently remembered the visits, thought she
knew where she was, knew she stood near the door "because I
wanted to go home." Besides the idea that the baby was not
hers, she recalled none, and thought she had no
hallucinations.

She was discharged perfectly well six months after
admission to the hospital. Soon after that, she left the
husband, once had him arrested in 1908 and sent to the
workhouse. She was again examined in 1913, and was found to
be perfectly well, and she stated she had been well since
the discharge.

These five cases will have to suffice for the present. They were given
in full in spite of the fact that we shall leave out of our present
considerations the history of the cases and certain of the stages, and
confine ourselves to that stage of each case which is best qualified to
give us a good general survey of the essential features of the stupor
reaction.

These phases are: stage 1 of Case 1, lasting five months; stage 3 of
Case 2, lasting one year; stage 2 of Case 3, lasting two years; stage 1
of Case 4, lasting three months; stage 1 of Case 5, lasting four months.

We gather from these descriptions that the essentials of the stupor
reaction are (1) more or less marked interference with activity, often
to the point of complete cessation of spontaneous and reactive motions
and speech; (2) interference with the intellectual processes; (3)
affectlessness; (4) negativism.

_Inactivity:_ Th