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tears; then there would be excitement, or a stage of semirigid! ty. 

 In no case was a real loss of consciousness or a total loss of self-control 

 noticed. One of the girls, after some preliminary crying or excite- 

 ment, would throw herself on her bed in a sort of stupor. Two other 

 girls each had once a spell of a similar nature. The girls, in general, 

 seem to be well acquainted with the condition. They are not fright- 

 ened by it, but when a case occurs run to the patient, press hard into 

 the pit of her stomach, and rub her wrists and eyes. Several girls 

 at the Rice school had occasional "crying spells," but no motor 

 symptoms. 



No case of chorea was noticed in either the San Carlos or the Rice 

 school, and but one of an apparently organic nervous trouble (Rice 

 school), which consisted of a form of aphasia in a half-grown girl. 

 At San Carlos a Mohave (Yavapai) child about three years of age 

 was in a partially palsied condition, as a result of the severe labor 

 attendant on its birth. Up to about 1 1 years of age incontinence of 

 urine, apparently of nervous origin, is occasionally met with in the 

 Apache and other tribes, in children of both sexes; the trouble dis- 

 appears without treatment. 



Among the Mescaleros a high-grade imbecile boy was seen, about 12 

 years old. His father was dead and his mother a consumptive. The 

 mother says that the boy when about 8 months old was frightened by 

 a whirlwind and became as he is. Two other feeble-minded boys 

 were heard of. 



Among the Jicarillas there were in 1903, according to Mr. Johnson, 

 the agent, several deaf and dumb children. These children, although 

 born of apparently healthy parents, have been thus since birth. In 

 1904 there were in the tribe two insane men — one 35 and one about 45 

 years of age. One of these became insane through drunkenness. 



Among the White Mountain Apache, and to a less extent among the 

 Jicarilla Apache, goiter occurs, but no case of this affection was seen 

 or reported among the San Carlos or the Mescaleros. No information 

 of cretinism could be obtained. 



One boy was found on the San Carlos reservation, having a partly 

 anterior and partly lateral spinal curvature apparently of tuberculous 

 origin; he did not appear to be a full-blood. 



Smallpox scars are comparatively rare among the Apache ; this is 

 rather strange in view of the former extensive contact of the tribe 

 with the Mexicans. Pneumonia and bronchitis occur in all branches 

 of the people, and the same seems to be true of malaria. 



A case of apparent elephantiasis of the scrotum in a San Carlos 

 Apache was observed in 1904 by Doctor Ross, the San Carlos agency 

 physician. 



Affections of the breasts or nipples incident to nursing are much 

 more rare among all the Apache than among white women. Pelvic 



