256 MORBID BODILY CONDITIONS 



gradual, being preceded by some, or all, of tlie following 

 phenomena: 



1. Simple loss of spirits, marked perhaps by uiisociability 

 and unamiability, with a tendency to self-seclusion, taci- 

 turnity, moroseness and apathy, or other sudden change 

 of habits, amounting to moping, sadness, listlessness or 

 melancholia, familiarly spoken of as drooping ; including the 

 development sometimes of obvious fretfulness, so marked 

 that the animal is said to fret itself to death. There may 

 also be misery or unhappiness variously expressed. 



2. Agitation, restlessness and want of sleep. 



3. Loss of appetite, passing into obstinate refusal of food. 



4. Emaciation, gradually progressing, from inanition by 

 self-starvation, popularly described as pining, decline.) dwining 

 or wasting, and technically known as marasmus. 



5. In exceptional cases some specific wasting disorder 

 may be superadded, developed by debility and the predis- 

 position it creates to inflammatory disorders from exposure. 

 Of these specific disorders, by far the most common is pul- 

 monary consumption phthisis pulmonalis. 



The physical evil may stop sh'ort, for a longer or shorter 

 time, at any of the first four stages. 



Death, lingering or rapid, as the case may be, results 

 from the following emotions, mostly, though not altogether, 

 of a depressing kind: 



1. Grief, or sorrow, usually inconsolable, mostly from be- 

 reavement of some kind, though the bereavement may be of 

 an apparently trivial and temporary nature, the cause being 

 in such cases quite disproportionate to the effect. Thus the 

 same effect results in one animal from the simple absence for 

 a time of some loved friend or companion human or other 

 that in another arises from the permanent loss by death of 

 a mate or of young, or of a human master or mistress, or 

 which, in a third, is the product of removal from a home or 

 place to which it is attached. In all these cases there is a 

 severance or rupture, sometimes or generally sudden and un- 

 expected, of attachments to persons or localities, of affections 

 more or less tender or keen, of natural or artificial relation- 

 ships, friendships or companionships between the most diverse 



