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erratic and disappeared from home about the time his mother 

 was born. Two of his sons have hysterical fuges and one of 

 them served a term in prison; he is now quite lost to the fam- 

 ily. This is a remarkable history of hysteria with a slight 

 criminalistic tendency. 



7. An intelligent and esteemed physician (Fig. 54, II, 2) 

 with training abroad as well as in this country and of a good 

 family (his brother, II, 1, is a college professor and his father 

 a methodist preacher) married a lady (II, 3) of good family, 



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with much musical talent, but subject to migraine and for- 

 merly to chorea. They have two sons born in the best of en- 

 vironments. The younger (III, 3) is still in the kindergarten, 

 seems wholly normal, truth-telling and lovable; the other, 

 (III, 2) now 13, developed normally, has had no convulsions, 

 and has never been seriously sick and ordinarily sleeps well. 

 He has regular, refined features and a normal alert attitude 

 and is very industrious. He attends Sunday school regularly, 

 has excellent talent for music. At 3 years of age he walked 

 to a near by railroad, boarded a train and was carried 12 

 miles before the conductor discovered him ; since then he has 

 run away very many times. From an institution for difficult 

 boys, where he was placed, he ran away 13 times. He es- 

 capes from his home after dark and sleeps in neighboring door- 

 ways. His mother used to make Saturday a treat day. She 



