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As a rule those confined in the hospitals for insane are quite demented, 
though there may be a transient mental improvement during or following 
some acute disease. 
One of my unique experiences was the observation of the great mental 
improvement following the injection of erysipelas antitoxin’ in an epileptic 
who was greatly demented; this mental stimulation, however, was only 
transient, subsiding on withholding the remedy, which proved too costly 
for continued use; in time there was a complete relapse. 
KIKATATONIA. Under this head I could write some lengthy accounts re- 
lating to mental stimulation from the use of desiccated thyroids.?  Indi- 
viduals who had been practically dead, both physically and mentally, had 
a veritable return to life under the use of thyroids. 
THYROID MEDICATION OR STIMULATION, The above experiments were 
continued with different classes of patients to find out the limitations or 
usefulness of the new drug. ‘This was quickly found., In a chronic 
maniac it brought on acute maniacal disturbance and had to be discon- 
tinued. On the other hand, in individuals who were very dull and stupid 
on account of myxedema? all that was required to restore normal activity 
was the use of this remedy. 
REDREAMING DREAMS: A personal experience while still living among 
the insane first directed my attention to dreams and the part they play 
in daily life. My experience in dreaming a dream over and over again 
during an attack of sore throat seemed so odd to me that I looked up the 
subject in the literature, and since then have questioned hundreds. I 
found nothing in the literatuve, and until recently did not meet any indi- 
viduals who had had a similar experience 
for this reason I gave a brief 
account in the Psychological Review for November, 1901. It may be 
added that while I dream much, but few dreams, comparatively, stand 
out vividly and are remembered next morning. An interesting study 
would be to seek the causation of dreams, why at times one dreams much 
and then again very little; likewise why certain periods of one’s life 
rather than others are picked out, so to speak, by dreams. 
DISEASE INFLUENCE ON MENTAL STIMULATION AND DREAMS. Here be- 
longs a number of notes on cases in which the stimulating influence was 
1 Epilepsy and Erysipelas. Journal Amer. Med. Assn., May 14, 1898. 
* Thyroid Medication. Indiana Medical Journal, June, 1896, 
3 Notes on Thyroid Medication. Ind. Med. Journal, Feb., 1898. 
*Myxedema. Indiana Medical Journal, June, 1904. 
