The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-09

oeenln ana Fourteenth on EXCHANGE
street. He made several calls. Sam
uels came to my office and talked rel
alive to his wifes illness. The wit.
ness considered him sane.
4 Cross-examined, DR.. Gray said these
professional visits were made abou,
two years ago. He was called to at
tend Samueis' child before he was
called to the wife.
witness admitted a person might
be mentally unbalanced and it would
not be detected in a single visit OIL
conversation. He had no opinion or
defendants sanity or insanity during
the past two years.
Dr.. c. r. Applegate,
superintendent of the Mt. Pleasant
hospital for the insane now and fol
the past ten years, and one Of the
ablest and most distinguished alienists
and neurologists in the United States
and special expert for the state, tool
the stand at 1925 o'clock. this after
noon. He testified in response tt
questions:
Il am superintendent of the Noun
Pleasant state hospital for the insane
| have practical twenty years, first Ii
Bellevue hospital, Nesr York City, ant
went from thee. az assis,au. ,,bysicitI
In Wards lsla id asylum New Eort
and was there four years; the average
number of patents WIS about 2,2' u
about sixty patients came in ever!
month. | thel was stationed at the
Indianapolis 1ospi'a. Wi.h 1850 pa
tents; received the appointment Il.
first assistant phy-lcian at the Clar;n
da state hosNt'al, where there we're
900 patients. MS there six year.
was then appointed superintendent o
the Mt. Plea sa Y; hospital III 1901
Since / left Bellevue in 1890 m,
practice has been entirely with the in
sane Several thousand cases of in
sanity nave come under my observa
ton; have seen 5000 admissions.
81 have studied the form of insanit.
known as paranoia, melancholia ant
other forms. have attended this tria
since Wednesday and have observed
the defendant
Il do not see anything in the shape
of the defendants head that indicates
insanity. You do not have to go to ;
hospital to see queer shaped heads
II have observed defendants atti
tude. have never seen a paranoia'
assume that attitude. A paranoiac II
bright as to anything that has a bear
ing on anything in which he is con
cerned, especially legal proceedings.
have never heard of coated tongue
by itself being an indication of insan
ity.
1t has been my understanding tina
great singers had high-arched palates
especially soprano singers. ! haven
found them in my practice.
"Paranoia IS a term applied to +;
progressive form of insanity and is de
generating in type; in all cases l have
seen there has been a hereditary ten
dency to the disease. 1t is seldom tina
the delusions of a paranoiac is con
fined to a single delusion. The min,
is distorted and biased
"a hallucination is false percep
ton of sight; a paranoiac may see ;
carriage and declare and argue that i
is a street car. In cases of paranoiac.
hallucinations eventually appear. The
evidence here has disclosed no hallu
cinations.
you may have sane delusions anC
person may be shown that he is il
error. In paranoia there are insane
delusions. which are a false belle
growing out of perversion of the in
tellect.
The attitude of paranoiac TOWARD
one against whom he has delusior
is one of hatred, and takes every op
portunity to build up this delusion b!
assuming untrue things to be true. He
would show antipathy; there woule
be no show of love but rather hatred
MY experience is that paranoia'
will not attempt suicide; they may
threaten but not commit the deed.
"An Illusion in perception of an OBJ
ject actually present but of differen
character than the object itself.
The woman of today who has goo(