The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-12

mental diseases-men whose official position
entities their examination and report 10
unquestioned credit. The following Is a
correct copy of the report made by them
OF their examinations:
''The UNDERSIGNED Andre Antheaume, NJ.
d. (former chief of the clinic for mental
diseases at the Faculty Of Medicine or
Paris). deputy medical inspector OF public
insane asylums, residing in Paris at NO.
Rue Scheffer. and Henri Fischer, M D.
physician to the United States consul gen
eral, residing at Paris, No. Avenue Natl
gon, after having this day proceeded with
the mental examination of Mr.. Moses row
Ter Chase. born at Lafayette, IND, the 4tn
of June. 1878. boarding under the name or
James Brown in an establishment at No.
130 Rue de la Glaciere, Paris, under the dl-
rection of DR.. Comar. certify:
THAT the patient is evidently (manifeste-
menD suffering from mental arrangement
''The mental alienation u. e. Insanity
of Mr.. Chase is characterized:
"First-By a general falling OF the IN
tellectual faculties. and notably of memory
and Judgment; for instance, when asked MS
age. Mr.. Chase declared he was seventeen
years old, and that he was born in 1888, and
he gave Virginia as his place or Dlrtn,
whereas he is twenty-four years or age,
born at Lafayette. Ind; MOREOVER, while
being in the private hospital OF DR.. Conan,
he imagines he is at the Hotel Latin, Rue
de la Praix, etc.
TESTS FOR INSANITY.
This pathognomonic failing of the intel
lectual faculties of insanity is apparent
with this patient; likewise by evident alter
ations in his spontaneous writings and the
tests in calculating.
secondly delirious conceptions without
order (systema tization); asked II he knew
where he was the patient declared that he
did not know; he declared also that he had
no name, and he added, i have not insulted
the king of France To this entire uncon-
sciousness of his situation, Of the place
where he is to those delirious conceptions,
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symptoms (symptomes obJectifs), which al
ford us the means of making the diagnosis
that there exists In the pauent the !nen.ai .isl
disease designated under the scientlnc
name of 'demence prococe lprecoclous de-
mentia) Indeed, We have remarked In Mr..
Chase, during the objective examination,
exaggerated reflexes of the knee pan, ex-
aggerated knee jerk (exaggeration des re-
fiexes rotuliens), mydriasis OF the two pu-
pills of the eyes, and an almost general
state of analgesia (absence OF senslbiIty);
for instance, he can be deeply pricked by
a pin with impunity on the hands. thighs
body and head without showing any sensi-
bility: frequent automatic motions of the
ends of the fingers, and the phenomenon of
echo -kineses (that is to say, the imitation
of movements made before him and repeat
ed by the patient automatically In
marked degree.
'In view of this manifest condition of
mental alienation Insanity we consider
that Mr.. Moses Fowler Chase Is incapable
of acting nationally even in the most ordi-
nary acts of everyday life. In this person
will, judgment and memory have now al
most entirely vanished. and he is incapable
of attending to his wants; nor is he respon-
sible for his acts; under the influence of
the disease he might commit a crime or
some act dangerous to himself or society.
1--WE consider, under these conditions.
that Mr.. Chase should be placed in an es-
tablishment for the insane, to be treated
and watched, is needed for the mental
illness from which he is suffering:
Done and signed at Paris the 18th
March, 1903, by the undersigned doctors.
ANDRE ANTHEAUME,
HENRI FISCHER.
Witnessed for the signatures Of Drs.
Antheaume and Fischer, above.
Paris, 25th March, 1903.
Commissioner of Police Chief Of the Sd
Division of Researches,
III. FOUQUIER."
Il have examined the foregoing transla-
ton, and / declare IL to be true transla-
tion of the original statement made in the
case of Moses Fowler Chase, of Lafayette,
Ind. DIR. H. FISCHER"