⁽²⁾ As at the time I first saw this patient I was unacquainted with this variety of illness, I had considerable anxiety as to whether I should recommend that she should be sent to a mental hospital or not, more especially as the voice once said, “Kill yourself.” She had, however, either to remain at home or be certified—there was no other alternative—and I am now glad I stuck to my guns and kept her at home. What a case, however, for a psychiatric clinic! May these institutions soon come!Google Scholar

⁽³⁾ Encéphale, vol. ii, 1911, p. 157.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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⁽⁵⁾ This patient now complains that she hears “silent voices”—her own expression. Compare Case 3.Google Scholar

⁽⁶⁾ Dementia Præcox, Kraepelin, translated by R. Mary Barclay, p. 276.Google Scholar

⁽⁷⁾ This matter is discussed in considerable detail in a paper by Roxo on “Délire Systematisée Hallucinatoire Chronique,” read at the International Congress of Medicine in London, 1913, and published in the Transactions, section “Psychiatry,” Part II, p. 104.Google Scholar