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stands with her hands in front of her for hours, never speaking; is with diffi- 

 culty induced to take her food. 



" Case II.— E. G. W. f 28. Admitted August 17, 1882. An architect's wife. 

 Three children; youngest, 8 months. First attack: duration, 9 weeks. 

 Neither suicidal nor dangerous. Sober and well-educated. Temperament 

 cheerful, placid, and industrious. Earliest symptoms: Had a fainting fit, 

 and was semi-unconscious for a week, when she came to herself very depressed 

 and melancholy. Present condition very much the same as sister; does not 

 sit down or speak; has to be fed by spoon." 



Cockayne (191 1) treated homologous twins for the same, rather rare, 

 symptoms of lienteric diarrhea. They were both quick and excitable 

 and ate voraciously and rapidly. Under better conditions of eating 

 and resting they both improved. 



Cullere (1901) describes twin sisters, Celestine and Prudence, who 

 both began to attract attention because of excitement at the age of 

 20 years. They were slow in learning to walk and to speak. At 17 

 both had terrible nightmares and hypochondriacal ideas. Celestine 

 was the more active, with the greater impulsions to violence. In 

 Prudence, who showed similar symptoms at about the same time, they 

 had a more morose cast. Celestine felt that everyone was hostile and 

 accused her falsely, and she especially cursed her mother for urging 

 her to marry contrary to her choice. She would have crises of despair 

 and weep. Prudence felt that the cure had bewitched her; that her 

 uncle wished to force her to marry ; that her mother did not love her. 

 Like Celestine she would assault viciously; but would have crises of 

 despair accompanied by tears and melancholy ideas. Both have 

 gradually demented slightly. 



Hasse (1887) describes homologous twin sisters of 26 years, one mar- 

 ried, the other not. Both suffer from melancholia with great anxiety 

 and a pronounced hysterical tendency, and a strong impulse to suicide. 

 Both have hallucinations of hearing and sight. 



Ostermayer (1890) treated identical twins, Emil and Arnold (born 

 about 1870), whom he describes in great detail. From childhood they 

 were most intimately tender toward each other; but they were ill- 

 humored, irritable, refractory, and never appeared happy. They were 

 diligent at school, brought home the best of reports, kept away from 

 their schoolmates, and tended to overestimate themselves. After 

 finishing their studies both went to work ; they showed themselves very 

 ambitious, but unstable. In the late summer of 1887 Emil imagined 

 the daughter of his employer was in love with him, and when this w r as 

 demonstrated to be false he attempted suicide by poisoning, but was 

 saved. He became melancholy and accused his mother with being the 

 cause of his failure to marry the girl. Arnold, who was also out of 

 employment, suspected his brother of taking a poison and secretly gave 

 him antidotes. Emil entered employment again, but everywhere felt 

 himself injured and persecuted, until he withdrew from affairs and he 

 and his brother devoted themselves with zeal to the study of languages, 



