PAIN, LAUGHTER AND WEEPING 339 



intensified; and in these patients surgical shock is 

 produced with abnormal facility. In the neurasthenic 

 whose threshold also is low to stimuli, the discharge 

 of energy in pain or laughter is equally facilitated. 



Since pain, like laughter and weeping, is a motor 

 phenomenon, it is not surprising that where pain does 

 not give rise to muscular activity, it frequently leads 

 to weeping. 



