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it; and hence these also come to be the subjects of any physiological 

 investigation which seeks wholeness as its aim. We may liken the 

 powers of man to drugs that produce symptoms all through his frame. 

 These symptoms are the basis of the science of health, and of the 

 corresponding art of healing. But who has ever studied so much 

 as one of them ? Where is the natural pathogenesy which is the 

 foundation of the morbid pathogenesy in the body itself? It is not 

 yet extant in science. But we must strive after it, or verily we do 

 not know the human subject to whom medicine is to be applied. 

 There is a brilliant mine to be worked here, and one which in giving 

 a deeper basis to our art, will also constitute a knowledge of psych- 

 ology such as the world will be glad to receive. 



In our Chapter on the Heart we took occasion to trace the passion 

 of Fear through some of its pathogenetic states. Let us explain 

 our present meaning by following some of the symptoms of Grief 

 in the same way. First, what is the index-symptom here, of which 

 the bodily state is the sequence? Weeping from the eyes is the 

 finger that points to all the other signs : the falling tear is the be- 

 ginning of the propositions of grief. The voice wails, and the sen- 

 tences fall out of the mouth through plaintive lowering cadences 

 which end in sobs. The head is depressed, and the hair weeps over 

 the face. The chin falls, and the lips melt as if they were big drops 

 of sorrow; the saliva also trickles forth as though the mouth cried. 

 In children the mouth does cry, and sobs, like tears of tone, roll 

 heavily forth; the lungs weep out both words and breaths. The 

 blood and excretions are wept away, and pallor and loss of bodily 

 spirit are manifest; and in long grief, the body itself pines or falls 

 away. The arms hang at the side, the knees totter as though they 

 would trickle down, and the frame droops with willowy sadness. In 

 extreme effects, no tears flow, but the spirit weeps itself out; just 

 as in the last cases of fear, the man runs away not outwardly but 

 inwardly (p. 192). Now the points to be noted in this slight out- 

 line of the pathogenesy of fear, are twofold : in the first place, the 

 mind, the body and the organs are each affected in their own manner 

 by the emotion : in the second place, the cardinal phenomenon gives 

 the cue to the other signs, and we find that in grief the whole man 

 weeps. We have, therefore, the best known term of all to interpret 



