Excerpt from The Alienist and Neurologist, Vol. 14: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific, Clinical and Forensic Psychiatry and Neurology; Intended Especially to Subserve the Wants of the General Practitioner of Medicine Within the past eighteen months, among ninety-two autopsies upon insane patients at the Alabama Insane Hospital, this condition has been met with eight times. As these cases are collectively of some interest, and illustrate not inaptly some of the varying phases of this singular malady, a short account of each is given, as a small contribution towards the elucidation of the problem above indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.