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Mad People's Thumbs

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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A physician in charge of a wellttnown asylum for the care of the in3ane recently said: There is one ïnfallible test either for the approach or the presence of lunacy. If the person vvhose case is being examined is seen to make no use of his thumb, if he Iets it stand out at right angles from the hand, and employs it neither in salutation, writing, nor any manual exercise, you may set it down as a fact that that person's mental balance is gone. He or she may converse intelligibly, may in every respect be guarding the secret of a mind diseased with the utnost care and cunning, but the tell-tale thumb will infallibly betray the lurking madness which is concealed behind i plausible demeanor.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier