On Temporary Insanity

tion, that the patient was " out of her mind;" that something had " gone to her brain." Losing no time in obeying the summons,1 I found the household, a large one, thoroughly upset; its members, especially the domestics, consisting of three women and one man, in a state of great alarm, their energies paralyzed. I first saw the family, and learned from them that nothing had been observed amiss in the patient's health, mental or physical, or in her behaviour, till she was dressing dinner about an hour before, when she suddenly dashed down the dishes, rushed to a window, and drove her hand through a pane thereof, becoming greatly excited, and weeping violently, protesting that the dinner was wrongly prepared, and that she was looked down upon by her fellow-servants. It appeared that she had, at some prior period,