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The third case was the most desperate case of self-destruction I _ 
ever remember to have seen or heard of. The patient, left alone 
'a few minutes, made a wound through the skin of the neck 
with the sharp edge of a stud, forced his forefinger into the wound 
z tore the blood-vessels of the neck until he caused 
: hemorrhage which resulted in, death; the whole injury was the 
‘of five or six minutes. Both my colleague and myself were 
‘him within six minutes of the time when he had been seen 
Dour. e condition of matters found at the post mortem 
examina: tion noted by my colleague, Dr. T. M. Joseph, 
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ch fr 
oe olw tely and cleanly dissected from its sheath. No wound 
tould be found in the vessel which was distended, and when cut 
The insensibility to pain exhibited in this case is not infrequent 
es of great mental exaltation or distress. Shortly before 
charge of Gladesville a patient slit up his scrotum and 
ed a testicle by means of a scrap of glass. One patient was 
Tull and sufficient doses of sedatives, given at the time that 
; es are most useful, that mental maladies often pass on to a 
snd stage, In melancholia, the form in which sedatives oe 
ia. most useful, I find it best to give full doses, am 
