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4. THE BEHAVIOR OF THE CHOLERIC-CHEERFUL. 



To illustrate the criteria used in assigning an individual to a zygotic 

 class there are brought together in this section all descriptions of 

 parents and children assigned to the class, choleric-cheerful. Similar 

 tables may easily be drawn up for each zygotic class from the legends 

 accompanying the charts ; but it seems scarcely worth while to publish 

 the tables. 



3 1 a, F. Subject to sprees; suicided with poison. 



M. Had acute mania; violent and destructive. 

 Son. Sx; restless and twitches, 

 i b, F. Surly and disagreeable; was hypererotic and brutal to wife and 



children. 

 Son. Has a swaggering air and manner; ran away from home; put in a 



reform school for rape. 

 Son. Wild and hot-tempered; profane and ugly toward his wife; takes 



whisky regularly to forget his business worries. 

 Son. Jailed at 14 years for rape; hung himself. 



30, M. Rough and uncouth; easily excited, passionate; has fits of temper. 

 Dau. Was Sx; attempted to hang herself; flew into fits of temper; was 

 slovenly, seclusive, indecent; at 32 had delusions of being 

 poisoned; threw herself out of window. 

 22, F. Cut his throat with a razor. 



Son. Cut his throat as his father did. 

 280, M. Garrulous; jumps from one topic to another; has sudden emotional 



changes; said to have attempted suicide. 

 Dau. Had a nervous breakdown twice ; is very hot-tempered ; jumps from 



one topic to another. 



Dau. Had delusions of persecution; threatened her neighbors; had hys- 

 terical attacks. 

 Dau. Attempted suicide at 16; was disturbed and hysterical at 19; had 



suicidal impulses. 



290, F. Excessively alcoholic; Sx; assaultive; killed himself by hanging. 

 Son. Excessively alcoholic, suicidal, and homicidal ; cut his throat twice ; 



stabbed at landlady; was excitable and violent. 



356, F. Alcoholic; at 48 became excited, talkative, expansive; had schemes 

 for making money, and was emotional ; wanted to shoot some- 

 one and was noisy and assaultive. 

 Dau. Became irritable, violent, restless, destructive; at hospital very 



flighty and destructive ; diagnosis : mania. 



370, M. At 20 had delusions; was noisy and quarrelsome; at 40 (fourth 

 admission to hospital) was very excited and made threats of 

 violence; diagnosis: chronic mania. 

 Dau. Epileptic in youth; at 46 w r as delusional and hallucinated; at one 



time excited, restless and apprehensive. 



826, F. Alcoholic in youth; became maniacal, chased family out of doors, 



flourished a razor, tried to shoot his wife; had a religious mania. 



Dau. Hot-tempered, violent, excited, religious; threatened to cut her 



own throat and shot herself. 

 Son. Violent, confused, and later demented. 



43a, F. A shiftless, worthless epileptic, at times violent and resistive; ugly 

 and jealous, threatening his wife. 



