150 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF **LATAEH.” 
MepicaL NOTE. 
The examination of a number of persons, the subjects of 
“Jatah,” did not bring to ight any single condition, pathological 
or otherwise which, by its frequency of occurrence, would entitle 
it to be ranked as an etiological factor. The cases examined 
ranged from those who were merely abnormally tickhsh to those 
who responded to every suggestion however conveyed. 
In all there was a ereat acceleration of the pulse rate at the 
beginning of the examination. This was undoubtedly due to the 
condition of “ expectation ” and, after they were satisfied that no 
experiments were in contemplatiom, rapidly subsided. There were 
two exceptions both middle-aged women who were goitrous and 
shewed the muscular tremors of that disease. 
The reflexes, superficial and deep were in excess and Babinski 
was normal. A confusing intrusion was the finding the results of 
a peripheral neuritis shewn by a paraesthesia or anaesthesia of the 
hands and feet and a corresponding loss of the reflex. This con- 
dition was present in three of the women examined. Although 
the causes of a peripheral neuritis in this part of the world are 
many it was possible, from the fact that all three women were 
multiparae and from a careful analysis of their histories, to arrive 
at the conclusion that the neuritis was probably of puerperal 
origin, known toenatives as “ taipo.” 
There was a perceptible difference in the rapidity of the res- 
ponses according to the route chosen to convey the suggestion, the 
tactile being easily first, the visual next and the auditory last. 
Stigmata of Syphilis were surprisingly rare. 
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