Amentia and dementia : a clinico-pathological study / by Joseph Shaw Bolton.

  • Bolton, Joseph Shaw, 1867-1946.
Date:
1906
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    doubt whether this was his real name, as he only got 23.?. a week and a cottage, and still went toBrighton and to theatres, etc. People thought that she was interfering with other people’s affairs. She has not done so unless they know her thoughts, and her thoughts wouldn’t do any harm to anyone. She thinks that the “man next door” hypnotised her husband and then herself, as her husband once gave her a black eye, and he had never done so before. This man had power to do an injury to anyone who wished her well. “These people had no business to write to other people about me; it’s forgery. If he has killed one he has killed hundreds. He outraged my little Bessie, aged 8, a pretty little girl. Such fellows deserve roping. It’s a pity God lets them live, I think. If he hadn’t something he wished to hide, why did he try to pass my friends off as his ? He has taken our name and passed in a sense as my husband.” She is very garrulous, and has a rather childish way of talking. She is extremely suspicious, and when I ask questions about her children, etc., she wants to know why, and then asks if I have any children myself. When I reply “No,” she says, “Perhaps you are like the ‘ man next door,’ ” and “ Perhaps you have plenty in the workhouse.” During her residence she was often excited, and was extremely garrulous and suspicious. She frequently wrote long letters dealing with her case, and the ill treatment to which she thought she was subject. At times she would work hard, but as a rule she refused to work. Latterly, as her mental state was passing into the next phase, she used to think at times that she was really the medical officer, and used to ask for her salary and her uniform, and to state that it was her intention not to undertake her duties unless these were provided. At other times, again, she denied all this and made her more usual demands for her liberty and for large sums of money on account of her detention, threatening all kinds of criminal proceedings and penalties. Developed Paranoia in a Patient of Deficient Education. Case 281.—E. K—, female. Hit. approximately 40-50, but difficult to judge. Certified 5 years. A phlegmatic-looking woman who screws up her mouth and smiles. Very stout. Lateral spinal curvature. Palate deep and narrow in front. Enormous lobules to ears. When asked her name says, “ I’m known by that name” (pointing to admission paper), “but it’s not my name.” “ I take Black as a surname.” Christian name ? “ Victoria.” “ I sit next the crown. I have the income equal to the position, a thousand a year and a fortune.” “ I accepted ten thousand as a settle, waiting so long, kept out of it so long.” Her memory and general intelligence are practically or quite normal for an uneducated woman. She was in her last asylum “ five years and a half quite, not for any lunacy, political.” There has been an “ immense plot to keep me out of my rights, almost from birth, not quite.” She states where she is, “ H—, I’m told, but not the original.” How not ? “ Because they reversed the station for bettering political matters. I recognised as I came along that it was so.” She hears voices at night. “ Some friends