GENERAL MINING NEWS OF COLORADO. 485- 



" Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; 

 Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te ; " 



or, in our English version : 



" I do not like you, Doctor Fell, 

 The reason why I can not tell ; 

 But this I know and that full well — 

 I do not like you, Doctor Fell." 



Some conditions often called idiosyncrasies appear to be, and doubtless are, 

 due to disordered intellect. But they should not be confounded with those 

 which are inherent in the individual and real in character. Thus, they are fre- 

 quently merely imaginary, there being no foundation for them except in the per- 

 verted mind of the subject; at other times they are induced by a morbid attention 

 being directed continually to some one or more organs or functions. The pro- 

 tean forms under which hypochondria appears, and the still more varied mani- 

 festations of hysteria, are rather due to the reaction ensuing between mental dis- 

 order on the one part and functional disorder on the other, than to that quasi 

 normal peculiarity of organization recognized as idiosyncrasy. 



Thus, upon one occasion I was consulted in the case of a lady who it was 

 said had an idiosyncrasy that prevented her drinking water. Every time she took 

 the smallest quantity of this liquid into her stomach it was at once rejected, with 

 many evident signs of nausea and pain. The patient was strongly hysterical, 

 and I soon made up my mind that either the case was one of simple hysterical 

 vomiting, or that the alleged inability was assumed. The latter turned out to be 

 the truth. I found that she drank in private all the water she wanted, and that 

 what she drank publicly she threw up by tickling the fauces with her finger-nail 

 when no one was looking. 



The idiosyncrasies of individuals are not matters for ridicule, however ab- 

 surd they may appear to be. On the contrary, they deserve, and should receive, 

 the careful consideration of the physician, for much is to be learned from them, 

 both in preventing and in treating diseases. In psychiatrical medicine they are 

 especially to be inquired for. It is not safe to disregard them, as they may influ- 

 ence materially the character of mental derangement, and may be brought in as 

 efficient agents in the treatment. — N. Y. Medical Journal. 



MINING AND METALLURGY. 



GENERAL MINING NEWS OF COLORADO. 



The South Pueblo Evening News makes the following comparison between 

 Pueblo and Denver as mmeral shipping centers: In 1881, there was shipped 

 from Denver gold and silver bullion, which was supplied from the various miner- 



