Exhorts to repent, preaches, howls, sings obscene songs, exposes the person. Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially the clothes, with lewdness and lascivious talk. Loquacity, he talks rapidly. Alternate states of brooding, screaming, and screeching. A few such remedies would empty our insane asylums, especially of recent cases.
Insanity is curable if there are no incurable results of disease.
Full of despair and hopelessness with approaching insanity. Despair of his recovery, attempts suicide. Insane people are not hopeless, those approaching insanity are but after they become insane, they think that everybody is crazy except themselves. Those bowed down by great grief and despair are likely to go into a state of violent mania. Veratrum carries them through the state of despair.