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General irascibility or irritability, probably 

 leading to 



Pugnacity and quarrelsomeness. 

 Sullenness or moroseness. 



c. The development of various vicious morbid pro- 



pensities or impulses, including 

 Morbid appetite. 



d. Perversions of the natural affections. 



e. The generation of natural or causeless alarm, 



associated with a general ' nervousness ' ; or, 

 on the other hand, 

 /. The substitution of fearlessness, or a pathological 



indifference, for natural timidity. 

 g. Feebleness of will, or total loss of volitional 

 power, involving a general loss of control over 

 the ideas, feelings, propensities, or actions. 

 IV. Changes in the usual voice or other sounds in the 

 ordinary forms of language. 



V. Changes in the general bodily functions, physiological 

 or pathological, such as cutaneous, circulatory, nervous, and 

 muscular disturbances. 



VI. Changes in the special senses and in the special func- 

 tions of sensation in vision, smell, touch, or taste. 



VII. Changes in general or special intelligence, involving 

 the loss or perversion of faculties or aptitudes, and the con- 

 sequent development of a non- protective stupidity. 



Such stupidity involves 



a. Loss of the love of life. 



&. Loss of all ordinary caution. 



c. Loss of the power of self-defence against insect 



or other plagues or enemies. 



d. Loss of obedience ; non-obedience or inattention 



to a master's voice, call, or order. 



e. Diminished power of observation, calculation, 



and attention, involving, for instance 

 Non-recognition of man or master. 

 Non-recognition of danger. 

 Non- avoidance of obstacles or noxious ob- 

 jects. 



