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out, this does not seem to be at all in an 

 active state. 



" The serious complaints which make his life 

 a misery to him I believe to be purely func- 

 tional. He strikes me as being a very marked 

 example of hysteria in man, though in his 

 case, as in many among women, the commoner 

 phenomena of hysteria are absent. I am sur- 

 prised to hear that he spoke warmly of my 

 treatment, for he would not admit to his 

 ordinary attendant, nor to me, that his 

 symptoms had undergone any palliation what- 

 ever. He is prejudiced against any treatment, 

 and the result, according to him, always agrees 

 with his prediction." 



Evidently an extremely difficult and nervous 

 patient to treat. But that might be expected. 

 In October of 1886, Mr. Scott proposed to raise 

 a fund among the friends and admirers of his 

 works which should be devoted to sending him 

 to a warmer climate. He consented, though 

 with pain and bitterness of soul. " I have 

 written," he says, "fourteen books." He 

 enumerates them. " Scarcely anyone living 



