A Curiosity Of Lunacy

There is a special forni of mental disease first described in Krance, whose definite character is given to it by its periodieity, and henee it is called foliecirculaire. In it there are three sections of the mental oircle that the patiënt moves in - viz, elevation, depression and sanity - aj)d in this round he spends his life, passing out of one into the other, for it is, wheu fully established, a very incurable disease. The patiënt takes an attack of mania, during which he is joyous, restless, troublesome, extravagant and often vicious. He eats voraciously, sleeps little and never seems to tire. His temperature is a degree or so above the normal, his eye is bright and glistening, he is enamored of the other sex, he show diminished self control and n commoii sense. ïhis lasts for a few weeks, or a fe-w months more commonly, and then he passes sor.ie.times gradually and sometimes rather suddenly into a condition of depression, during which he is slnggish, duli, looking differently, dressing differeutly, eatiug differently, fearful, unreliant and sedentary in habits. This state will last a few weeks or months, and the patiënt will brighten up into what seenjs recovery and is to all intents and purposes in his normal state. This again lasts for a few weeks or months, and he gradually gets ïnorbidly olevated. You find he is passing through every minute mental phase and habit iie did at first. Depression follows, as before, and then sanity, and this round of three statesof feeling, of intellect, of volition, and of nutrí tion, goes on, circle after circle, till the patiënt dies. He lives three